UnderRainySkies
05-04-2005, 11:21 AM
Hi guys I'm Sara, I'm 19 and I just joined. I'm getting married on August 6th of this year to a wonderful man named David. Anyway getting to the point I have a couple of questions, I hope this is the right catagory to post it under.
1. We are getting married at Graceland (we live in Memphis) at this place called Chapel in the Woods. It sounds really cheesy but it's not. It's a very naturey (I think I just made a word up) chapel and it only holds 60-65 people max. The reception however is across the street in Elvis' Automobile Museum (again not cheesey but a very non traditional reception site, just what we were wanting) and can hold a lot of people (probably around 250). We decided to send out two sets of invitations, the first going to our families. Let them RSVP back and then start sending out invitations to our friends. We need the family to all RSVP back by the middle of June in order to send out the second set and give them time to RSVP in time to talk numbers with a caterer, and then find out how many centerpieces, tables, linens, etc we will need. Well I just got my invitations and they were wrong so the company is sending them again at no charge but will be here in about a week or so. Our RSVP cards already have a June 15th RSVP thing, that is going to give the family enough time to check it over with work etc. Should I just not send the RSVP cards out and send out all our invitations (around 80-90) and just hope only 60 show up but plan for 80 people with the caterer? I have no idea what to do.
2. Davey and I are both very into music (mostly punk, emo, screamo, indie, rockabilly type stuff) and he has been playing guitar for about 11 years and been in bands for about 5 of those, we already quoted one of our favorite bands on the invitation, Saves The Day (name of the band) but as far as decorations on the tables go what could we do? Our colors are red, black, white, and silver. My maid of honor and I thought we could get these black and silver star beads to sprinkle on the table along with some red or black guitar picks and then the centerpiece be a votive holder with a white bow on it ontop of a mirror, but inside the votive holder have red glass beads and a red votive. Is that too simple for an evening wedding? We don't want flower centerpieces that's for sure.
3. We are both into tattoos, so we thought we could give out maybe temporary tattoos to the guest but I think only our friends would appreciate that one. We both have conservative, religious families. How can you do a punkish indieish wedding with that type of family because we certainly don't want to offend anyone.
Sorry this turned out to be so long. I'm going to try and post a picture of us, hopefully it will work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/omarsmyhero/ilovethese.jpg[/img]
1. We are getting married at Graceland (we live in Memphis) at this place called Chapel in the Woods. It sounds really cheesy but it's not. It's a very naturey (I think I just made a word up) chapel and it only holds 60-65 people max. The reception however is across the street in Elvis' Automobile Museum (again not cheesey but a very non traditional reception site, just what we were wanting) and can hold a lot of people (probably around 250). We decided to send out two sets of invitations, the first going to our families. Let them RSVP back and then start sending out invitations to our friends. We need the family to all RSVP back by the middle of June in order to send out the second set and give them time to RSVP in time to talk numbers with a caterer, and then find out how many centerpieces, tables, linens, etc we will need. Well I just got my invitations and they were wrong so the company is sending them again at no charge but will be here in about a week or so. Our RSVP cards already have a June 15th RSVP thing, that is going to give the family enough time to check it over with work etc. Should I just not send the RSVP cards out and send out all our invitations (around 80-90) and just hope only 60 show up but plan for 80 people with the caterer? I have no idea what to do.
2. Davey and I are both very into music (mostly punk, emo, screamo, indie, rockabilly type stuff) and he has been playing guitar for about 11 years and been in bands for about 5 of those, we already quoted one of our favorite bands on the invitation, Saves The Day (name of the band) but as far as decorations on the tables go what could we do? Our colors are red, black, white, and silver. My maid of honor and I thought we could get these black and silver star beads to sprinkle on the table along with some red or black guitar picks and then the centerpiece be a votive holder with a white bow on it ontop of a mirror, but inside the votive holder have red glass beads and a red votive. Is that too simple for an evening wedding? We don't want flower centerpieces that's for sure.
3. We are both into tattoos, so we thought we could give out maybe temporary tattoos to the guest but I think only our friends would appreciate that one. We both have conservative, religious families. How can you do a punkish indieish wedding with that type of family because we certainly don't want to offend anyone.
Sorry this turned out to be so long. I'm going to try and post a picture of us, hopefully it will work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/omarsmyhero/ilovethese.jpg[/img]