| Different style Chair Setup? [message #622333] |
Thu, 22 June 2006 17:42  |
 Coloradogrl
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I am looking at having my ceremony chairs setup in a different way the the tradional aisle setup? I have heard of them setup in a semi circle but I have never seen a pic
Has anyone ever done something like this or done a nontradional setup?
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #622361] |
Thu, 22 June 2006 18:33  |
tarren
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Mine were in a sort of semicircle - but there was only one row of them, we had the other people stand, since the ceremony was short and we didn't want the formal feeling of many rows of chairs (well, and extra chairs cost money...). Anyway, I think it looked nice.
Here's a photo - http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1590815
Also, in case you care, we entered from the other side, so that we were facing the guests the whole way (more or less).
"don't worry what people think - they don't do it very often"
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #623175] |
Sun, 25 June 2006 18:43 |
Skippy
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I think the layout in that link is excellent. I recently went to a wedding where there were two rows of chairs in a huge circle, with breaks between the chairs. The parents were at the front, the wedding party came in from the sides, and the groom came in from the side to meet the bride (who came in from the back) half way and then they walked up together.
I'm getting the front facing pews because thats the way the church is laid out, but my church in my hometown has large upholstered chairs as "pews" and we keep them arranged in a circle- so this would allow for a circle/church wedding....
If only they weren't 1970's green/orange/yellow....
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #632940] |
Thu, 20 July 2006 17:03 |
Lemon
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Ooo, I love the idea of upholstered chairs! I wish we had loads of money and could afford to buy a bunch of vintage chairs...
We're planning on doing kind of a semi-circle set up with an aisle in the middle. And we're probably going to stand facing each other, so people don't have to stare at our backs the whole time.
* There are some times in a woman's life when the only thing that will help is a glass of champagne and a nap. *
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #657865] |
Fri, 29 September 2006 15:29 |
ScrittiKitty
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Hey, I'll pick up the thread again...
I'd really like to have the chairs in a circle; it would mean a lot to me to have our family and friends surrounding us, rather than sitting like an audience at a performance, so that they're more a part of the ceremony. I also like that it conveys the symbolism that everyone will become one big family circle through our union.
I'm just a big blob of goo, I know.
But Mr. Scrit is concerned that people who are sitting behind the officiant (my uncle) will not be able to see his face. That would be kind of sucky. So I've been looking for pictures or testimonials of folks who've done it that way, and how the seating/view worked out. I have in mind more or less exactly the link that Montrealfemme posted above.
Thoughts? Pics?
So close, and yet... so what?
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #657929] |
Fri, 29 September 2006 17:13 |
tarren
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He's concerned that people won't be able to see whose face, his or the officiant's? The sentence was unclear.
Besides, if you have a full circle, someone'll always end up not seeing your faces, right? Unless you come up with a ceremony that involves turning in all four directions or something along those lines, which would be cool.
I can't see Montrealfemme's link, BTW - is there an IB login or something?
"don't worry what people think - they don't do it very often"
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #657951] |
Fri, 29 September 2006 18:18 |
ScrittiKitty
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Ah - the officiant's. Damn you, Pronouns! Mr. Scrit says that the reason we chose my uncle to do the service is that he's very special to me, and so he (Mr. Scrit) wants people to be able to see my uncle's face while he's (again, uncle) performing the service. I can get down with this, as it's not just some random guy; he's like another father to me.
(No, the other "he"! My uncle!) 
I don't know about the turning - the Mr. Scrit is not totally comfy with a less-than-traditional service. He's fine personally, but he doesn't want to freak out any of the families, and nor do I. Don't get me wrong; we're all about waving our freak flags high in every other realm of life, but we both hate the idea that the wedding should be "all about us". For us, it's about celebrating the union of two communities, hence my desire for the circle in the first place. I had originally proposed all of the guests standing up and joining hands around us, and he nixed that. So if I can finagle a non-traditional seating pattern, that will be a pleasant compromise.
Oh, and the IB login for Kodak is fakeymcfaker@aol.com, pword fakey.
So close, and yet... so what?
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #658378] |
Mon, 02 October 2006 12:13 |
tarren
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I really doubt the guests will mind not seeing your uncle's face. Not seeing your faces could possibly be more of a problem - I don't know how much people care about that. I guess I'd feel a bit strange sitting behind the bride and groom... Are you and the uncle facing each other, or all the same way? If all the guests can see someone's face, either yours or uncle's, that would help.
Another version of the circle would be one in which you're part of the circle instead of being in the middle - that way nobody would be sitting behind you and everyone would be able to see faces, more or less.
"don't worry what people think - they don't do it very often"
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #658409] |
Mon, 02 October 2006 13:52 |
ScrittiKitty
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Thanks, Tarren!
Yeah, we talked about logistics this weekend, and we came up with an arrangement where we are at the "top" of the circle, so we complete it, rather than being surrounded by it, which is also really nice, symbolically.
So close, and yet... so what?
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| Re: Different style Chair Setup? [message #949042] |
Mon, 23 March 2009 10:28 |
tatgeer
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I know this thread is old, but oh, well. 
This weekend we went to my work and set up a lot of chairs in a big room, since we were having trouble envisioning what that many chairs looks like. FWIW, an oval of 40 was roughly 25' by 30-35' (we didn't measure). We're planning on about 80 people.
What we ended up with was this - an inner circle of 35 with an outer circle of 45. If we think of it as a clock, there would be aisles at 12:00, 3:00, and 9:00. The officiant would come in at 12:00, FH would come in at 3:00, I come in at 9:00, we all meet in the middle. Parents are seated around 6:00 - this way they get a good view of faces. If the aisles are 3-4 chairs wide, everyone else should get a good view of at least one of us. We'll set parents up so that they get the better view of their kid's face (ie, my folks at 5:00). Our attendants, 2 each, stand in the aisle that we came in, and the bagpiper stands in the aisle the officiant came in, completing the circle.
We'd like some way to indicate/make special where we'll stand, but haven't figured that out yet - we're atheists, and I don't think we're doing a unity ceremony. If we do one, I imagine the stuff for that would be in the center.
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