outrageousprincess's Red wedding

Wayne and I had gone through our guest list and decided on 125 guests. This amount we could feed, so this allowed everyone to be able to come to the ceremony, dinner and reception. Then his mom started to rhyme off people she figured should come. My smile went to forced and I honestly started having a panic attack. Our guest list was easily climbing to 200 people. We cannot afford to feed that many people!!! I told Wayne that MY mother/father etc were not inviting their friends, and the only friend that is coming of theirs is our photographer. I also told him if he felt that his mothers friends played an important part into his life then that was fine. But this was OUR wedding!!!

He said that maybe we have 100 people for dinner and invite more people to the dance afterwards. We had originally decided to have our ceremony and reception at the same place... So this meant our search for another place to hold the ceremony must be found. We didn't want a church and didn't know of any other place that could be used... Until I talked to our photographer Mark told us of a Pavillion in our local park that would easily hold over 200 people. I went to look at it last night. WOW it is HUGE and beautiful, you can have the ceremony face the lake. Awesome choice I must say. I will add pictures.