Rain, Rain, Go Away (Or Actually Just Don’t Come in the First Place, Please)

Rain, Rain, Go Away (Or Actually Just Don’t Come in the First Place, Please)

October 23rd, 2006 @ 1:15 pm by Mrs. Bluebell
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We are (HOPEFULLY, FINGERS CROSSED!!!!) going to have our ceremony outside my family’s summer house in the open air, tentless and free.

Rain, Rain, Go Away (Or Actually Just Don't Come in the First Place, Please) : wedding decor new york weather Tebt tebt.jpg

I have always imagined getting married at this exact spot, with the view of the lake and the mountains behind us, and regardless of my desperate desire for no tent, I don’t think a tent would even fit there! Which is all good and fine except that this is also the exact spot where my brother was going to get married this summer before there was the most rain ever on record for a straight month leading up to his wedding.

Soooo, now I’m paranoid! We could always hold the ceremony inside in the living room like they did but (a) that’s just more copying of my brother’s wedding and (b) we’re going to have probably about 30 more people than they did, and even for theirs people were jam-packed in and a lot of them couldn’t see.

Which leads us to Poll #1!*

*Poll #2 will accompany the semi-related Tale of Tent Woe, coming soon to a…different weddingbee post near you!

**figure out a way to use the reception tent for the ceremony, then herd people away from it for a while as the caterers set up tables after the ceremony? Or some other creative solution which I will be sure to elaborate upon in your comments section!

[Disclaimer: I swear I can draw better than that, but with only Paint and a desperate desire to get this out to the weddingbee public RIGHT NOW, that was all I could come up with. Feel free to mock as much as you please! ;-)]

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4 Responses to “Rain, Rain, Go Away (Or Actually Just Don’t Come in the First Place, Please)”

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Amber

I’m going to mock your drawing now. Okay, I won’t, because I know how hard Paint is! Anyway, I think that it’s always good to have a second option, hopefully just herding them all inside wouldn’t be so mad. Also, it was a majorly uncommon rainy season, so maybe you’ll be lucky?

10/23/06 @ 1:29 pm (reply)

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Miss Plum

I am hoping for perfect weather on my wedding date as well

We were originally going to have a tented wedding, but it was going to run us at least $15-20k just for the tenting totally not feasible!

Good luck! and hopefully you’ll have great weather!

10/23/06 @ 1:40 pm (reply)

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milka

I’m having a backyard wedding in… FIVE DAYS! (I’m VERY lucky - abundant sunshine is the forecast. Rock!) Living in AZ, it’s safe to bet on sunshine. In fact, some of the venues we considered had no backup plan for rain. “It won’t rain,” they would say. That was it.

But being paranoid/obsessive, I needed something more than a blithe assumption of no rain. So we figured out that if you removed all the furniture, we could fit 100 guests in the living room if need be. Less than ideal, certainly, but preferable to getting soaked.

Check out the average temp/rainfall for your wedding week - ask vendors in the area what they’ve seen. If you do get a tent, you can perhaps move guests indoors for the cocktail hour while the tables are getting set up?

I would also say don’t worry too much about mimicking your brother’s wedding - guests will not remember or care. I was all freaked out b/c fi’s brother got married 4 months before our wedding and they used the same colors. I overreacted (she stole my colors!! I must change them!!). It’s just not a big deal in the grand scheme. No one is taking notes and comparing weddings.

10/23/06 @ 1:56 pm (reply)

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miss violet

yeh don’t worry about your brother having a wedding there.. i think the gorgeous views are worth having 2 weddings in one spot..

10/23/06 @ 4:21 pm (reply)