Case: a wedding for 180 guests, with terrace and hall

The ceremony stands on the terrace and the dinner in the main hall, and it is the same 180 people, not two lists. The terrace is about 400 square metres. Chairs for this group are enough for the vows. This is not a standing reception of about 500, and it is not a second dinner. Adding the open paving and the hall describes a celebration we do not build that way.

Between the vows and the first course there is a short walk on the same grounds. Guests go from the terrace into building 17 without hunting for a second house. Cloakroom and a moment to arrive sit on that walk, not in the middle of the ceremony. The invitation says the route in one sentence, so nobody crosses the delivery lane with a glass in hand.

Running order and dates for weddings sit on the weddings page.

The main hall is more than 600 square metres. Seated, the guide is about 400, and inside that figure 180 place settings, the band and the dance floor have to exist together. 180 leaves floor over, because the band's corner comes off the raw chair count. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row. We do not publish a fixed row for this hall.

The dance floor sits so service can still carry the main course without walking the parquet. The band needs power and a route for the cases that does not cut through the set tables. That is why 180 is the picture in which band and dancing still have air. The 400 stays a guide, not a blanket clearance, once stage, routes and floor are counted in.

In rain the walk into the hall becomes the plan for the ceremony itself. The ceremony chairs then stand in the room, and they have to leave before tables, band and dance floor take their place. That is a short sequence in the same room, not a second building. Guests wait in a set area, not among the cases.

The walk is short and stays on the grounds. It does not cross the delivery lane or the open kitchen. If the ceremony is indoors from the start because the sky is uncertain, the terrace remains only the arrival before it, within about 500 standing, without that figure being laid onto the 180. The walk-through chooses one sequence, not both at once.

Many people look for a wedding under the name Wedding. Wedding is the former borough name and a wayfinding sign, nothing more. The address sits in the locality of Gesundbrunnen, and the borough is Mitte. The invitation says Gesundbrunnen, so the search and the footpath share one destination. The old name helps if someone asks. It does not replace the address.

At the gate the street is Gustav-Meyer-Allee, not a sign carrying the former borough name. A taxi needs Gesundbrunnen and the house number. Mitte remains the borough on the city's paperwork. Both may sit in the invitation. Wedding stays the wayfinding name and does not become the place of the celebration, even when an older map still shows it.

Building 17 is addressed Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, and it is on the ground floor. From S Humboldthain the walk is about ten minutes. A journey by way of Hauptbahnhof stays at about 30 minutes, train and footpath together. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. We do not set a walking time for them.

Guests reach the ceremony in one wave. Parking on the grounds takes the family's cars and the build vans. It does not replace the footpath when everyone meets the gate at the same time. Guests check railway lifts themselves. We do not promise a lift, at Humboldthain or anywhere else on the journey.

Kitchen, bar, sound and light sit with one producer. The ceremony microphone has to stay clear on the terrace and have a marked place in the hall if rain brings the vows indoors. The band brings the playing, not a second system that fights the speech. The same person sets the levels, before the vows and before the short address at the table.

Building 17 is step-free and fully accessible. The wheelchair route to the ceremony, and later to the seat at the table, cannot be the corner the dance floor already claims. Both are fixed on the walk-through before the 180 chairs are drawn. The band's delivery ends before guests enter the room. Radios stay behind that line.

In the empty main hall we place the dance floor, the band's corner and the 180 place settings together, with the aisle service needs. Then we walk the terrace chairs and the door into building 17. A microphone is tried outdoors and indoors while the room is still empty.

The first course waits until the guests are seated and the cases are clear. Open air, about 5,000 people on up to 5,000 square metres, stays outdoors. Philosophia, about 180 square metres, holds about 100 at banquet and is not added to the 180. No couple is named.