The countless numbers of disappointed couples forced to rethink, relocate, reconsider or even postpone their wedding plans due to the pandemic are learning today that some new, scaled-back options featuring live streaming and micro-wedding packages are being offered by the innovators at Lake Michigan College’s Mendel Center, which has hosted hundreds of wedding receptions over the past several decades.
Mendel Center organizers say that as everyone gradually emerges from stay-at-home measures, and couples planning to marry have to decide how to navigate the list of new health and safety protocols that have changed the way weddings and events are experienced, they have some new solutions. The Mendel Center at LMC is helping couples adapt by introducing several creative options that let love move forward.
Live stream and micro wedding packages at The Mendel Center provide couples with an elegant and affordable way to tie the knot during uncertain times. While a limited number of closest friends and family personally attend the wedding in person in compliance with limits on gatherings, a wider circle of friends and relatives can share in the ceremony through a professionally produced live stream of the event.
Ceremonies will be held on stage in The Mendel Center’s newly renovated Hanson Theatre. Live stream services include professional videography, audio, lighting, and video uploading.
Mark Sumney, Sales and Operations Manager at The Mendel Center, says, “Current State guidelines for our region allow for up to 10 people to gather for indoor events. Now couples don’t have to decide between delaying their wedding and having many of the important people in their lives miss out on the big day. The live stream micro wedding allows them to begin their lives together without anyone missing out on the experience.”
Sumney adds that The Mendel Center will be able to accommodate increases in the number of attendees if restrictions on the size of indoor gatherings are loosened after a couple books their event.
Packages include venue rental, multi-camera live streaming, music, flowers, decorations, and a post-ceremony champagne toast reception for up to 20 people. Couples also receive discounted room rental for a full reception when gathering restrictions are lifted. Micro wedding packages are also available that do not include live stream services.
Four different packages are available.
Diamond & Pearl Live Stream Micro Wedding packages include:
- Ceremony on stage in the newly renovated Hanson Theatre
- Maximum number of guests based on indoor gathering limits
- Professional, multi-camera live stream (number of cameras vary by package)
- Video upload, archive, and footage available following the wedding
- Professional audio and lighting services
- Music, decorations, and flowers
- Champagne reception for up to 20 guests
- Day-of-event wedding coordinator services
- 25-percent room rental discount for future reception when full-sized gathering restriction are lifted, based on available dates
Gold & Silver Micro Wedding packages include:
- Ceremony on stage in the newly renovated Hanson Theatre
- Maximum number of guests based on allowed indoor gathering limits
- Reliable internet service for do-it-yourself live streaming
- Professional audio and lighting services
- Music, decorations, and flowers
- Champagne reception for up to 20 guests (Gold package)
- Day-of-event wedding coordinator services
- 25-percent room rental discount for future reception when full-sized gathering restriction are lifted, based on available dates
Catering is available as an add-on service to any of the packages.
Select dates this July, August, and September are available. You can learn more by emailing The Mendel Center at weddings@lakemichigancollege.edu or visit online at the link below:
http://www.TheMendelCenter.com
The Mendel Center raised the curtain on its first Mainstage season performance in the fall of 1992. Since that time, it has presented Mainstage season performances to more than half a million patrons in the 1,559-seat Mendel Center Mainstage Theatre. Newly renovated Grand Upton Hall, first opened in 1979, is a 14,400-square-foot venue serving the community as the host site for meetings, banquets, trade shows, weddings, and other celebrations. The 234-seat Hanson Theatre is home to the Lake Michigan College Visual & Performing Arts Departments as well as a variety of Mendel Center and community events.
