To have booked our wedding outdoors in July, in the uk?!

[TheFunkyFox]

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Wedding July 12th at 4pm. Romantic idea of getting married then a little small garden party with hay bales and lots of food.

Now I’m panicking it’s going to rain and we will all be squashed in the living room instead 😩😩

I got married in July and it was lovely op

How are you getting married at home?

"You'll probably find that regardless of the weather there will be a contingent in the kitchen. You could have elvis presley brought back from the dead performing in the garden, and there would still be a contingent in the kitchen."

Our guests were banned from the main house. The only people in the kitchen were preparing food. Might have been different if it had rained though.

Buy a big gazebo and sell it on if you don’t need it. If you get a scorcher you’ll be glad of the shade too. We went to an outdoor wedding in the south of France a few years ago and you’d think because it was August you’d be safe but there was a huge thunder storm. It was such a disaster, all the table had been set beforehand so the linens were dripping wet, the tables and chairs were sinking into the mud and half the food was ruined because it had been caught in the rain too. Everyone got blind drunk and it was actually quite fun though!

Marquees marquees! DH had an ideal of an outdoorsy wedding, with ceremony outside. I insisted on a marquee, although I knew it would be a bit of a shame if the weather was glorious.

But this was the summer of 2007. Torrential rain and floods. It poured the whole day before and the heavens opened about 15 mins before the ceremony. That said, it stopped just as ceremony began and stayed dry the rest of the day, but there's no way we could have had the ceremony there without the marquee (and it would have been crowded to have it in the barn venue).

But I'd say have a marquee in the garden. You can cancel it a few days before and prepare to lose the money if the weather's looking lovely.

Oh sorry, I have misunderstood I’m guessing! I was hoping we finally had a way of avoiding going anywhere to get married

How are you getting married at home?

I’m assuming the OP is having the actual ceremony elsewhere?

I’m assuming the OP is having the actual ceremony elsewhere?

Can get married at home in Scotland.

You can’t in the rest of the UK.

It was scorrchio here pretty much throughout July last year (London).

We had an outdoor wedding in April and it was lovely!

Friday means everyone will have to book annual leave from work and sort out after school childcare.

If it's only 15 people can't you just have them milling around your front room/kitchen? Presumably they'll be in and out the house anyway if it's in your back garden.

If it's raining I'm not sure people will want to be in a clammy marquee when they could just be inside the house.

Right we’ve just talked and decided if it rains were turning the dining room into how it would be outside with blankets, the hay bales, our record player, candles etc 😂

I'm another who knows the weather that time of year well as it's my birthday week. It ALWAYS rains.

The 12th of July is my birthday, and I has only rained once that I can remember on the actual day, but that was last year...

We got married on 1/7/17 and we had a full week of torrential rain the week before, but it suddenly came out full blown sun on the day!

I do think you at least need some kind of marquee/gazebo for a plan B

"You can’t in the rest of the UK"

You can if your home has a wedding licence.

Is there a budget issue? You can buy huge marquees from Amazon for seventy quid. I got this one for a party for my daughter and have used it several times.

You can get different sizes, and it's easy to erect, so you can have the option for cover if it rains.

www.amazon.co.uk/Airwave-Gazebo-Marquee-WindBars-Waterproof/dp/B00AZHU058/ref=sr_1_8?s=gateway&crid=1PQMKA3OLTYY5&keywords=marquee&sprefix=Marquee%2Caps%2C744&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1553523481&sr=8-8

No budget issue, just don’t like many people 😂🙈

I’m thinking about buying one too!

The likelihood of it raining depends on where you are in the country. We are in the East of England and June and July are usually (but not always) pretty good.

Whereabouts are you OP? And how big is your dining room? It might be worth getting in touch with a local group who have a gazebo (school PTA for example) and asking if you can borrow it in return for a donation to funds. Then you could put the food and drink under cover if you're having to use the dining room as the sitting area.

Alternatively, look at hiring a local hall with a garden. Our village hall is £50 for midweek hire for a day and it has French doors into the garden so people can be inside or out depending on the weather.

Just a warning that hay bales can make a hell of a mess.

In all honesty, I'd get a gazebo regardless - if it's got and sunny then the shade will be welcome, if it rains then its shelter. You could put fairy lights up. It'll give the smokers somewhere to stand if it pours down and everyone has to go inside.

Places like B&Q have 45 day returns, so you could buy one a month in advance and return it if you decide not to take it out of the box.

We got married on a beach in Scotland in April. There was a plan B but I really wanted that beach. We knew we were taking a gamble, day before was drizzling and it was grey on the morning of our wedding but the clouds cleared. It was beautiful ifba tad cold.

Oops posted too soon....you will always take a gamble with uk weather. So have an alternative set up x

Hay bales and candles indoors with a crowd of people milling around sounds like a fire risk. And bales in someone’s living room would look odd to me. Have you loads of empty space or would you have to move out furniture etc? Bales are pretty big! A decent plan B in the form of a decent marquee or whatever would be a good insurance policy for you and stop you worrying about it for the next few months.