Hello WeddingWire.
So here's the deal. I have a HUGE extended family on my side, and my mom has a billion friends, all mainly located in the Northwest US. My FH and I live in TX near his parents. His extended family is all in Florida and Georgia and is very small. We are having our wedding here in TX with a limit of 120 guests (mainly family and close friends), and are having a second "meet and greet" type reception in Idaho where my parents live so that we can include as many people without breaking the bank. (this is common in my parents culture where wedding ceremonies are very exclusive to adult members of their religion only)
We are also on a small budget and could not afford to invite 500+ people to our wedding, and decided to do it where we live to make planning a bit easier for me and because FH's side of the family cannot afford to fly across the country for our wedding which we obviously want to include.
My question is, how do we invite people to this sort of thing?? We want to let people know about it soon so they don't think they are left out of our wedding festivities, but we also don't want to send it out so early that people forget. Our wedding is on Nov28th and the Idaho reception will be the weekend of Jan15th. (Because of travel fees and my job that is the only time we could do it.) It seems wrong to send a save the date when it's just a reception, and I don't want to make it seem like we eloped. I'm so confused!!
Thanks for any help!
