liscensing for beach wedding
From:
jaimison1
Date: 10/3/2009
at 7:32 PM
this may be a really stupid question but my fiance and i will have about 100 people at our wedding, but the ceremony will only last like 15 min. i really dont want to pay a company hundreds of dollars to put out little decorations and stuff on the beach. i would rather save that money for the reception. what liscensing would i have to get to have a wedding of that size on the beach? and is it better just to hire someone to take care of it??
thank you!
-Jaime
Replies:
From:
kchicko
Date: 10/4/2009
at 11:38 AM
You have to check with the town you are getting married in. Im getting married in NJ and I think it's only like $30. If you don't get a license and someone decides to ask you to see it then you'll get a fine. It's better to just get one. Call the townhall and ask how much it is and how far in advance you need to get it. As for decorations have some friends or family set it up for you. You don't need much decorations if any so it shouldn't take them long.
Keri <3
From:
myken29@hotmail.com
Date: 10/4/2009
at 5:59 PM
For our beach wedding I had to call the sarasota parks and rec center and they gave me a small list of four beach accesses on siesta key that were available for a wedding. The cost was $54 per hour and I bought 2 hours even though I started setting up way early and used the space for about 4 hours. Get a permit because you want to make sure your space is reserved for you and not another bride! It would be awful if the beach space was double booked with your wedding and another and you didn't know that because you didn't reserve it. You can make the decorations on the beach simple or extravagent just create a budget and figure out what you want to have at the ceremony. It's a lot of work to set up chairs and someone has to tear them down again after the ceremony so who ever you assign, make sure they have the time and are hard workers! My family and friends did it and so did our caterer.
~Myken
From:
jenn248
Date: 10/6/2009
at 4:02 PM
Ditto pp - you'll probably need to contact the town in which you are having your wedding. I didn't have to pay anything for mine (in Dewey Beach, DE), but I did have to get a letter of permission from the town. I'm sure it varies from town to town, but our town was not at all involved in the set-up for the wedding - it was up to us to hire rental companies, wedding planners, etc. We rented some chairs and paid our DJ extra to cover the ceremony as well as the reception, but asked some friends that weren't part of the wedding party to set up our chuppah and (minimal) decorations.
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