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Just Said Yes July 2018

Is it weird to ask guests to move their chairs from Ceremony to reception?

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Jessica , on December 30, 2017 at 5:40 PM

Hi! My fiance and I are getting married July 2018, and we are have both the ceremony and the reception at his family home (backyard wedding). We are trying to decide whether to save money and ask guests to move their chairs from the ceremony to the other side of the lawn for the reception, or to rent twice the amount of chairs. Do you think its a big deal to ask guests to do this? To rent while resin chairs for 200 people is $450, so twice would be $900. I've included a picture of the backyard, the ceremony is taking place on the upper left hand corner, and the reception is the whole bottom area.

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Champion June 2018
muriel · on December 31, 2017 at 11:42 PM
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I would ask the caterer to do it or hire some high school kids.
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Expert October 2015
Rachel Langerhans · on January 1, 2018 at 1:11 AM
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Yes, it would be rude. We were thinking about doing this for our backyard wedding but ultimately decided to get a second set of chairs. We got a less expensive/less fancy chair (basic plain brown ones) for the short ceremony and had the nice wooden white ones for the reception. Please don’t make your guests move chairs.
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April 2018
GoodMOB · on January 1, 2018 at 4:22 AM
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To answer this question properly, I am curious what percentage of your wedding budget it would be to just rent 2 sets of chairs. Seems to me it would be much nicer for your guests to not be involved with moving chairs, and smoother all around for chairs to not need to be moved.
I personally wouldn't mind moving my chair if I was at a wedding where the bride and groom were very young, and I knew it was a very tight budget wedding. I would try to do whatever I could to help out to make their wedding possible.
But if I am allowed to say so, your venue looks pretty fancy, so it would not be keeping in the spirit of that type of wedding to ask guests to move chairs.
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July 2021
Denise · on July 19, 2019 at 11:28 AM
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If someone is going to make an issue of moving a chair, do you really want to spend the money
to have them at your special day? (Food/favors/etc.)?
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Devoted May 2020
Bride2020 · on July 22, 2019 at 3:04 PM
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I wouldn't. I would assign the groomsmen to it + some hired help. make sure you have something their to help them move the chairs.
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Keiradfloyd · on June 8, 2021 at 2:52 AM
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Lmao all these comments sound so snobby and entitled I wouldn't want guest like that.
Reply is for all the future brides like myself looking things up.
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Just Said Yes November 2024
Lindsey · on June 1, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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I was considering this however we will have no elderly people present (grandparents are all gone) and about 25 guests including us in total. The chairs I'm having are the clear ghost chairs, and all guests are family and extremely close friends that wouldn't mind. The wedding will be on a beach and a few steps away from the reception space. Only 2 young children (ages 6 and 7) will be present and unable to assist. I think it depends on who your guests are, age, and the formality of the event. I would not ask anyone who would be wearing heels to carry a chair.
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