Hey everyone! Firstly thank you for reading. I'd love some advice and inspiration as me and my fiance are feeling a bit 'stuck' planning the order of the day and would love to hear any ideas based on your own day, or intimate weddings you've been to.
Our day: we're getting married in a hotel, ceremony and reception in one venue. We're non-traditional, and are having 40 people in total, our closest friends and family. We've booked a big room which will be changed from the ceremony to the evening tables etc whilst we're having photos and bubbly.
We've planned a 3 course meal, and speeches etc... and then we're stuck for what to do for the rest of the evening, it sort of fills like we need to 'fill the time' as all we both care about is the ceremony part.
The room is a little small for 'dancing', and we don't want a first dance. We're not huge fans of the DJ/disco thing.
Initially, we had thought of a mini pub-crawl around the city we're getting married in (Lincoln). There are some beautiful places, and we know our group love a drink, as do we. We had thought about drawing up a little map of the pub crawl so people know where we'll be at which time, so they can dip in and out if they want to - however we fear that leaving the venue as quite a big group might be stressful....
My other idea was to start the day a bit later (so there's less time in the evening), and maybe do a big quiz or something, with questions about us, and our guests, and music rounds with songs that mean something to us, etc....
Thank you SO much in advance for any ideas! I do have niggles in my mind that I really want my guests to be happy, not bored or awkward... I know that you shouldn't plan your day for your guests at all, but I can't help but worry that it won't be 'enough'. (I know, I know). How do you combat those nervous thoughts when planning your day?!
x
