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Hi Ladies,
I am just wondering what you think about inviting more "distant" guests to the ceremony and then cocktails, dancing and wedding cake AFTER the dinner/speeches are over. Like our ceremony is at 3, dinner around 6, and dancing will probably start around 9ish.
The reason I am considering this is because the venue we ABSOLUTELY love and have just recently booked really recommends staying under 200 guests for dinner as it can be too tight with everything. FH has a pretty big family and we have decided to invite only first relation aunts, uncles, cousins, etc, but we are still getting close to over 200. The people we were considering inviting to join the dancing afterwards are some of FH's work friends who would understand not being invited to the dinner and maybe some more distant relatives who would probably only come to the ceremony anyways.
My parents seem fine with the whole idea because this is what they did at their wedding too, but I just wanted to see what you ladies think. Should we just not invite them at all or is it okay to invite them to dancing afterwards but no dinner??
Thanks!!
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| We did it! We had close family and friends for the ceremony and dinner and more distant to just the dance part. Thats very common here. Go for it.
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| So if you invite people to the dance part and you have an open bar, how would that work. There must be an additional cost for the people and how do you know if everyone you invited showed????
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We are supplying the alcohol so we would have enough for the total amount of people during the dancing part.
Thanks missdish, I was just worried that people might be put off about not being invited to the dinner, but they are so much more distant yet we would still want them to party with us. It's either they come for just dancing or they arent invited at all!
Also, can I still invite them to the ceremony at the church?
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Also, the people we are considering live relatively close by so its not like they are coming from out of town...
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Andreea (6/20/2008)
We are supplying the alcohol so we would have enough for the total amount of people during the dancing part.
Thanks missdish, I was just worried that people might be put off about not being invited to the dinner, but they are so much more distant yet we would still want them to party with us. It's either they come for just dancing or they arent invited at all!
Also, can I still invite them to the ceremony at the church?Some people might take offence to that. I don't know. We didn't invite the no dinner people to the ceremony. I will admit that we heard that a couple people were ticked that they weren't invited to everything - but they were also people who only got an invite so MIL wouldn't freak. We really didn't care if they were there or not
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| We had a small wedding (only 76 people) and DH's mother would have like to invite more people. So we compromised, I said that anyone was welcome at the ceremony or dance (our reception room held 150), so she sent around an e-mail to some of their friends and family so that no one felt 'left out'. The e-mail said something like: Dear friends and family.... As you can imagine we were unable to invite everyone to the wedding reception, so we are inviting you to celebrate with us at the wedding ceremony and/ or at the dance. Please see the attached invitation. We'd love to have you join us. The attached invitation was We invite you to share with us In the celebration of the Marriage of Stephen and Carolyn On June 14, 2008
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