Pre-Wedding Festivities
Since you're trekking so far from home, we want to make sure that you have plenty of time to do what you want to do. But we also want to be able to see all of our guests for a little while other than at the ceremony itself! So we've reserved an area at the Brew Pub at the Monte Carlo from 4 pm to 7 pm the day before the wedding. We hope you'll drop by for a bit--we'll provide drinks and a few appetizers, leaving your tummy empty enough so that you can skip off to dinner at one of the many, many, many fine eating establishments available on The Strip. (The wedding party will be sneaking off to the rehearsal dinner.)
The Wedding Day
The ceremony and the reception are both being held at Bellagio. The Wedding Chapels at Bellagio are toward the rear of the casino level of the hotel, and you might as well know now that it's a bit of hike from the front door, or from the monorail that connects Bellagio to the Monte Carlo. You can look at our very unwieldy map to help you figure out where you're going, but you will also find that Bellagio has plenty of overhead signs to help guide you. Just follow any signs for Wedding Chapels, Convention/Meeting Rooms or the Art Gallery.
We politely suggest that you get to the chapel a few minutes earlier than the time on the invitation; weddings in this chapel are of an assembly line variety (albeit an extremely tasteful assembly line), and there isn't a whole lot of time to spare. And if you get there too close to starting time, you may be relegated to watching the ceremony on a video monitor in the chapel reception area (just like when you miss the curtain going up at a play!).
Currently the reception is scheduled to be held in Monet 1-2, which you will walk past on your way to the chapel. If this changes between now and the ceremony, we'll let you know, we promise!
Once the ceremony is over, the guests will be directed toward the reception room for cocktails, while the wedding party is traipsing around the Bellagio grounds getting their pictures taken.
