Hairdresser + Ceremony Musician: invite to reception?

Are you paying them for their services? If you are then I would treat them like a normal vendor and not invite them. If you aren’t then I would probably extend an invitation.

I am a ceremony musician and I don’t get invited to a reception unless I’m playing at it. I was only invited one time bc they were a friend inviting me as a guest. So if you want to invite them as your guest yes but if it’s just bc you feel like you should, then no .

We invited our ceremony musicians but I personally know 4 of the 5, including my high school band director and I am now a band director so they are also colleagues.

We also invited our florist since she is a family friend of FH for over 30 years.

I think whether you are paying or not, you need to do what feels right to you. I just said to the ceremony musicians “hey we would love to have you stay and enjoy a dinner, let me know if you’d like to!” So they didn’t get plus ones because they wouldn’t have brought their wives to a gig, they are just informally staying. We also didn’t send a formal invite.

however, we did send a formal invite to the florist because she would’ve been invited regardless of being a vendor.

Hi LovE2019! If you are paying them for their services then I would say you don't need to invite them, especially if you wouldn't have invited them to begin with! Peggy says it perfectly, if you want to invite them as your guest then yes but if not, that's totally ok!