Hi,
I need some help. I'm planning to have a wedding at the church where me and hubby-to-be met. It's a pretty big close knit church and generally, when someone is married there (unless they state otherwise) there is an open invitation to the ceremony. I *really* want to let everyone who wants to come to the ceremony come and SOOOO many people have volunteered to help without me even asking (throw parties, do invitations, do my hair, be a planner, do computer graphics, etc). We can't afford to have a reception and feed our large families so we're just planning to do cake and punch after the ceremony at the church and have it early in the day. At first I thought literally just cake and punch but since all of my close family and most of his close family are going to be coming from out of town (most of them just a few hours drive) I thought it would be better to serve some breakfast/brunch appetizers which we can do. The issue I'm having is size. Without people from the church I'd expect approx 75-100 family and friends to come. If all the people who have simply volunteered to help us and who I KNOW will attend things to be supportive come that's easily another 50 people. I'm thinking another 20-30 or so could come just b/c it's a wedding and like I said we're a tight knit group. Any ideas on how to manage this? If we move the "reception" to a separate location to serve just our family appetizers- the location cost alone eats up a significant portion of our budget. If we stay at the church it's free but could easily double the number of people to serve. Any ideas on how to handle this? Thanks!
