bethy87

Hi everyone, I am new to this site but I am getting married August 27th 2014 at the Grand Palladium Lady Hamilton. I don't have to much planned yet because the wedding coordinators take an awfully long time to get back to me! We are having our ceremony at the gazebo OR atrium (thinking atrium may be a nice break from the heat for everyone) at 4pm and our reception is going to be at the Poseidon at 530pm. Right now we are planning to do a non-private reception because she made an exemption for 32 people (normal limit is 30 people for non-private), however we may have an additional person coming now making it 33 so I have been waiting to see if they will still let us do the non-private. Has anyone had experience being over the limit for the non-private and still being allowed to do it? After this we are thinking of doing the private beach bash from 8-10pm. This way, we will be able to bring our own music and have a private time for our first dance and father-daughter, mother-son dances. Has anyone heard anything about the beach bash? I would love to know opinions. We were thinking about renting a dance floor for the beach bash. Has anyone heard of costs to rent a dance floor on the beach? Since you are having 50-60 ppl coming to your wedding I believe you are kind of forced to do the private reception (non-private is only for maximum of 30 people apparently) which can range anywhere from $45 a plate to $90 depending on what menu you choose. We are also thinking of doing the beach bash at the end of the night. What I know, is that you have to pay an extra $65 per person if you are over $25. We have a total of 32 people right now so it would be the set amount of $1800 + $65x5 extra people and it would bring us to $2,125. This isn't to bad in my opinion since we plan on doing a non-private dinner so this is where we can spend the money instead. The beach bash is more of a cocktail reception with light food (sliders, chips, kebobs etc) and a private open bar it is not plated. I hope this answers your questions!