Lessons Learned: DAR Wedding flow

I recently had a couple get married at DAR. We had the ceremony outside on the Terrace (we fit 98 chairs under the Rotunda to avoid the light rain), the cocktail hour in the O’Byrne Gallery, a full seated dinner in the Library (you can do this if you have 106 guests or fewer), and then dancing back in O’Byrne.

While overall the wedding was absolutely flawless, what I learned from watching the event unfold with this flow was that I needed a lot more table top space and a lot more seating in O’Byrne once dinner was over. We closed up the Library and made all the guests remove their personal items. Guests needed a place to stow their items while dancing, or enjoying the ice cream sundae bar and coffee station. We also needed a lot more seating. We could have squeezed a bit more in O’Byrne, but we also could have put more outside. Having Bat Mitzvah cubbies might have been useful too. At least we did have the coat check open all night. 

Photo by Lisa Boggs. Can you spot me in the photo below? 🙂 

Lessons Learned is a recurring series about the little and sometimes not so little things I learn at each and every wedding. Even after 14 years and 200+ weddings under my belt, I still learn something new at each one!