What's the expectation for ceremony only vendors? We're having a micro wedding with 3 guests, and our plan was taking our entire 3 guests to dinner afterwards. I honestly hadn't considered that the vendors are usually a part of the reception until very recently. We have two - the officiant and the photographer. Both are ceremony only, and both are traveling (the officiant around an hour, the photographer around 2).
Should we be including them in the dinner? And if so, would it be terribly rude to give them money (in addition to the tip) so that they could get dinner on their own? I have no idea what, if any, their dietary restrictions are. It also seems really awkward to expand our group of 5 people who know each other very well to 5 people who know each other very well and 2 people who have never met anyone else there. At the same time, I don't want to be rude.