Guys to give you guys a better idea here are some pics of my lawn, garage and outside of the house:
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Now as you can see it's not a huge lawn so you think it will be sufficient to accommodate 50-60 people, mind you some people might bring their kids so that will take additional chairs and space.
We were planning to setup gents area in this lawn whereas women setup inside the house and the food stalls in the garage. If we did this where would we hold the ceremony??? No space left for a stage outside so will have to do it inside and it will be damn crowded inside too if all people are called inside I think.
Another thing to consider is the parking, as you can see the outside of the house, I'm pretty sure there will be an issue with parking space as well.
Even if we manage all this somehow, then there is still a risk of rain and loadshedding so a generator has to be arranged as well which will obviously add more to the budget.
Lastly, since we are marrying my sister outside of family, so there is an issue of satisfying the laarke waale and they might not like the idea of bachaat by doing it home.
So due to all these factors, I was leaning much towards renting a hall / event avenue within defence of some sort to take care of all these issues and the larkai waale will be happy as well with that and not think we have cheapened out in any way. Even though I know we can't fully satisfy them but still got to try atleast
What do you guys say???