Minneapolis Sculpture Garden wedding - rain?

Question:

Hello, Pastor Tomkin. We've found your site, with all it's reviews of wedding ceremony and reception locations in Minneapolis, to be extremely helpful with the beginning wedding planning stages. So, we've booked the Minneapolis Sculpture garden (reviewed on the gardens for MN weddings page) for our August 7 wedding (with the Profile Event Center for our reception) and are now starting to get worried about having a rain site. I've called Minneapolis Parks and looked into the Loring Park Arts Center (our wedding is the same weekend as the Loring Park Art fair so that location was out) and also asked about Cowles Conservatory. Both are unavailable. We are trying to keep our rain site on the cheaper side if possible since it might go unused. Do you have any recommendations? We've also called a few churches and they were unwilling to let us use them. I'm starting to get worried!! Ive heard of weddings being held at art galleries in NE Minneapolis. What do you know about this? We have a wedding of around 175. Thanks!!

Art Loving Bride

Answer:

Dear ALB,

While it's always good to have a back-up rain location for your wedding ceremony, having the reception site as a back-up is definitely good enough - you do not need to rent a second ceremony location. The chances of having rain at your particular time, at your particular site (Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, pictured to the right), are so small in the summer that having a backup location of your reception site is definitely good enough. Even if you'd have to seat your guests at their tables, and have your ceremony up front...that's just a backup idea, and most probably wouldn't be used.

I hope this helps!

Rev. Tomkin Coleman
Minnesota Weddings with Rev. Coleman

p.s. I'd like to give another shout-out to my wife's wonderful services of premarital counseling in Minneapolis and St Paul - she's terrific!