Post # 1
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Wannabee
Ok so our wedding is not until August 26, 2012, but we are having a hard time finding a place to have the ceremony outside. My fiance really would love to have it outside. I would love it to, but I am giving up hope due to the stress. Our venue is in Streamwood so if anyone knows of ideas that would be greatly appreciated. We have already looked into Towne Center in Carol Stream, but they are not reserving for events like this. We have looked in downtown Bartlett area, but parking is very limited.
Post # 3
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Honey Beekeeper
I know nothing about Chicago or the areas you mentioned, but is there a local park somewhere that you could do the ceremony? If it’s a quick 15 minute ceremony, you don’t even need to provide chairs, and you’d need very minimal decorations since you’d have a beautiful green setting already.
Post # 4
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Buzzing bee
My only suggestion: we are having an outdoor ceremony and I originally wanted it in a park, but there was no rain plan! Not that I want it to rain on my wedding day, but I wanted to have somewhere to go just in case. It ended up being cheaper and more efficient for me to have my wedding at a venue where I had the option of an indoor or outdoor ceremony, with both spaces being beautiful.
Post # 5
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Wannabee
@takemyhand: Our venue is booked already, but they do not have space outside for ceremony. The rain back up plan is to have it at our venue in a room there.
Post # 6
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Wannabee
We are looking at a winery near our venue and it is beautiful. It was suggested to me by a co worker. Just waiting to hear back from event coordinator to get all the details.