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I don't live in LA, but your idea sounds really nice. We're looking into a restaurant reception (and ceremony outside the resto) kind of thing. Good luck!
I love this idea. My only suggestion would be to do vows before the speeches and dinner. I like the idea of starting with the main purpose of the evening.
@winerygirl: I agree with your suggestion - makes more sense to me that way too.
We're doing this (not in LA of course). We're doing our vows and reception at the restaurant.
I'm not sure if it's the same everywhere but restaurants here do a buy-out. Basically it's what you have to spend on food and drinks to cover using the whole restaurant. For most it's what they would make in one night (so a big expensive restaurant typically does 30k on a Saturday night and that's their buyout). You will have to contact specific restaurants to get their capacity, the ones I contacted here ranged from 45 guests to 350!
Typically restaurants also have private rooms so if you have a smaller number of guests you can rent that out.
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This is the dream that my fiancee and I have, and we want to know how we can make it a reality! :)
We would like to rent out a restaurant (or part of a restaurant) in Los Angeles (or around LA), eat, drink, and say our vows. This is the schedule we're envisioning:
6:30pm Guest Arrival (cocktails, appetizers)
7pm Dinner
7:45pm A few speeches
8pm We will stand up and say our vows (a family member will be officiating)
8:15pm Dessert and drinks continued
9/9:30pm Wrap up and then we will join guests (whomever wants to come) to go out in LA somewhere casual and informal... have drinks locally, karaoke, whatever...
We want to spend the bulk of our money on a fantastic honeymoon adventure, but still want that time to have a meal, drinks, and say vows in front of family. We are not the DJ, dancing with relatives, walk down an aisle, cake-cutting kind of couple, and we really want to stay true to ourselves and not be needlessly stressed.
Does anyone have any helpful tips for this? Has anyone done this? What is the MAX amount of guests we can invite? Any specific recommendations for restaurants in LA that would be accomodating?
Thank you SOOO much!