Is it turning into a circus?!

Hi there, you didn't say how many guests you were having but it sounds like you have enough to keep everyone occupied and having a good time. Apart from popping off to the photo booth and watching the magician eating popcorn I imagine everyone will be having a good old dance in their flip flops!

Yay I'm quite chuffed I've had a reply haha. We're inviting 170 but expecting about 130 on the evening. We're having just under 60 for the day time meal so hopefully that'll be a nice small number and I can do most of our hello's during the day

I'm pleased you don't think it's too much - I'm still hesitant to go ahead and start sorting out the sweetie table though...I just feel like there's absolutely loads and loads of food. The people who'll have been to the daytime will have had, mini fish and chips in cones for canapes, a 3 course meal and chocolates on the tables. I don't want it to be too much!! X

Hi there, and welcome to Hitched, it is such a great place! I think your concerns all depend on how long your day is….if you were having a late afternoon ceremony then that might be a lot of entertainment for people to pack in….don’t forget that one of the nice things about weddings is the chance for family and friends to catch up with each other, so a lot of people will probably just be happy mingling and chatting.

Also it depends on whether you are having your ceremony and reception at the same place – which tends to create more free time compared to having a church ceremony and then travelling to reception venue.

Personally, we are not providing any entertainment as such (we are having afternoon tea, a bbq, a photo table with Polaroid camera, acoustic guitarist, iPod and Chinese lanterns) as having been to so many weddings, all people really ever seem to want to do is eat, chat and dance!

There seem to be so many things you can tag onto your wedding day now I think there has to be a point when you have to ask yourself if you are organising these things because you really want them or is it just because you can hire them?

Hi date twin!

I think a photo booth sounds great fun and would provide everyone with lovely momentos.....

Are you having children at the wedding? They'd love the sweetie table but their parents might not - all the E numbers lol

I think have whatever you both want - its your day, have it your way.x

Thanks for your response!! The ceremony is at 1.30pm then we're travelling (guest in a vintage coach, B&G in a vintage car) to our venue about 20 mins away. We've got musicians during the wedding breakfast playing acoustic guitar, flute and sax. Erm, I keep on trying to think of other things we've booked in but I think that's about it. We had originally planned on having the polaroid table with guest book but it's prohibitive with the cost of film I'd have loved that!!

Now that I've written down and listed all the things we've got on it feels like it's just at the point of being enough 'to do' and just before the point of being 'too much'. I think I'm going to sack off the idea of the sweetie table and although I'd have loved the photo booth it's £500 we could save to spend on honeymoon and something that I think would just be yet another thing to do!

I dont think it sounds too much, sounds fab to me and great fun and relaxed! You could always have a go at making your own photo wall with some funny props (hats, wigs, glasses etc) something like this-

I think it sounds brilliant! all of it, i want to come! I dont think you really need a photobox, or the sweet table really. We liked the photo box but felt unecessary as people can take their own photos really and save us £500. i think chocolate fountains are great though, have you considered that? anyway, sounds like you will have a great day!

I was at a wedding recently where there was a photo booth and quite honestly i thought it was a waste of money.

Hi, your wedding sounds nice!

We are going for rustic too.

It's hard to tell if there's "too much", why not sit down and write a rough plan of the day (you know, ceremony at this time, meal then, lanterns there etc) and that might give you an idea.

I have thought about a girlie box for our loos. What are you putting in ours? I am worried, I don't want to put in my expensive perfumes as the kids may spray them everywhere or break them...

Instead of hiring a photobooth, why not see if you photographer will throw it in? I know I always do, I'm there anyway and they always make for great photos.

Alex

Our photographer won't do it because he's leaving after the speeches and ideally we'd want the photobooth for the night time. Great idea though! Thinking of that though, I've got a really good photographer friend coming to the evening to photograph the guests but purely reportage which would probably do the job! I think we'll do without the photo booth...as much as it would've been fun! It's just one more thing to organise and it'll probably tip me over the edge haha.

Love the photowall photograph! That's what we'd originally planned on but as I say the cost of the polaroid film was extortionate.

In the goodie box for the ladies - I'm putting it in a small whicker basket (I currently keep my necklaces in ha) and putting it next to the sinks in the ladies loo's. My friend has given me this poem to put in the basket so everyone knows it's off me because I love all my girls awwww! I'm putting in it - mini hairspray, molton brown handwash and hand cream (Christmas present put to good use ha), hair pins, tampons, a selection of those tiny perfume bottles you get of all the popular brands from the perfume shops...they're not expensive!, plasters in case anyone's shoes are nipping and some paper handkies - basically all the stuff that girls need on a night out bar makeup - which I can't afford to put in for people! All in all it'll cost about £20 because I've already got most of the stuff but I know as a guest at a wedding there's always one of the girls needing to fix their hair or needing a tampon and there's never any!