Mr. Kiwi has two wedding related jobs: deciding where we’re having the ceremony (because he’s Catholic and I’m not religious), and finding the music. Since Mr. Kiwi works at a Catholic school, we had two places to consider - either his school’s church or the large white tent in the back of our reception venue. As of two days ago, he decided to forgo the church wedding and just get married in the reception venue’s tent. It’s only $650.00 dollars to have it for the hour, and now we just need an officiant to make our ceremony plans complete.
Now, while the word “tent” usually doesn’t usually give you warm fuzzies, this one is cute. It has windows on the side as seen here:

With chairs set into rows, and a nice soft carpeted floor, I think it’ll be nice. It can also be heated, which I think we’ll be needing next November.
It has high ceilings as seen here:

While the idea of walking down a church aisle in my dress and veil was appealing, having to leave the hotel at 7am to get my hair done, go back to the hotel to get dressed, only to have to go back to the city the hair people are in to get married was not. I could get dressed in the church, but I really didn’t want to. Anyway, that would be a lot of travel so early in the morning!
So we are now getting married in the tent in the back of the venue! This saves us money by not using the church (it’s about 2k), time by not having to go back and forth, and more money by not needing reception cards! All in all we’re very happy with the decision- now we can get married for real!
We just need to find an officiant. How did you find yours? We’re in Southern California, if that helps!
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