Final meeting with venue

Yesterday afternoon we met the new and old coordinators at our venue for the final run through. The meeting was about an hour long and we covered everything from the type of champagne served to the placing of the tables in the reception area.

I was impressed with their suggestions and with the little extras we'll be getting. Both N and I will be getting our own rooms to get ready in, where in we'll each receive a snack platter for 4 and champagne for us girls and beers for N and her boys. We'll also be getting a honeymoon suite for the evening.

Our coordinator will also be offering a lot of help to my mom. We explained that her walking is very bad and that she might be coming in a wheelchair and they were more than willing to show us ways in which to get her in the venue and chapel (since its not an overly wheelchair friendly venue).

Its such a relief that they'll be taking away so much of the responsibility that I thought would be mine on the day. For instance, they'll be liaising with our MC with regard to the following of the order of events, they'll check that the chapel is full and that people are seated before they call me to begin, they'll ensure that the lighting is dimmed at certain times and brighter at others, and they'll ensure that the set-up is correct and that all serviettes are correctly folded to hold our menu's.

We also discussed the types of cocktails for cocktail hour. We'll be having Pimms & Lemonade, Sourz and Lemonade, and orange juice for the non drinkers. These drinks are refreshing (although I've never tasted Pimms) as the venue is hot even in spring, as we found out yesterday.

Lastly we discussed the order of events. We originally had the first dance then the cake cutting. They suggested it would be more practical to first have the cake cutting then the first dance otherwise just as the party gets started everything has to be stopped to cut the cake then afterwards begin dancing again. For some reason I hadn't given it that much thought but their way is far more practical.