When it comes to booking your Moab Wedding Reception venue, please don't feel pressured to reserve the first place you come in contact with. Most folks in Moab are flexible and delightfully easygoing. Finding a location for your wedding reception might even be easier than you expect!

We recommend that you choose your reception location 6 months to a year in advance and book it. Your contact person will probably ask you for a more accurate headcount about 30 days before your event, and they'll need to hear from you again a day or 2 before the event. Don't forget to include children, and specify their ages when you talk with the coordinator. Also specify any dietary needs such as diabetic, vegetarian, etc. If you need assistance obtaining alcohol or other libations, click here.

If you've ever done any sort of event planning, you know that the headcount changes even up to the day of the event! Just keep cool and give them the best number you can. Better to overestimate than underestimate. You don't want the restaurant to end up short-staffed, and your guests frustrated with slow or hectic service. I have found, in my own event planning experience (personal and professional) that you can subtract about 5-8% of your highest possible headcount at 30 days out, and that will give you a good number to work with. Someone's sure to flake out at the last minute, and someone else might even invite an uninvited guest (or pressure you to include extra guests). Sad but true. Sanity tip: It's just dinner. :) Keep your sense of humor! When you look back on your wedding day, you'll laugh about little things that went wrong. But the attitude you choose for your day will set the tone, and will stick with the memories that you and your fiance create.