Ceremony and no reception

I think this would be fine as long as it was early in the day so people aren't expected to be fed and maybe you could do a champagne toast with cake at the end for your sendoff.

While you see entitled to celebrate your marriage in whatever way brings you the most joy, I encourage you to consider if inviting guests to a ceremony is in line with how you truly wish to celebrate your union. Would you be able to honor the desire of your guests to celebrate by sharing wedding announcements? The assumption that a reception will necessarily follow a wedding ceremony has been ingrained into the social expections of Western society. If you do elect to hold only a ceremony, I encourage you to make that clear on your invitations. Whatever you choose, I wish you and your partner the best wishes!

Go for it! Way cheaper to go that route.

The fact that people are STILL commenting on this post I got married 4 years ago y'all !

FYI we did our ceremony of about 100ish people. Afterwards, we did invite our closest family and friends to our parents house where we had a small "reception"

we did not invite everyone that was at the ceremony, which I'm sure will be a problem for some of you.

We made it clear on the invitations that gifts were not necessary, and we just wanted to share our special day with them.

The day was amazing, and I would not have changed a thing.

my takeaway from this thread, after re reading the whole thing- DO NOT let people bully you into doing what they think is the "right thing"

there is no right way to get married.

what matters at the end of the day is that you get to spend the rest of your life with your person.

I forgot about this website the minute I got married- because thats all this is, is a website.

stick to you guns, and plan the wedding of YOUR dreams.