Is it tacky to just do a dinner reception with no dancing?

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$2500 honey get your monies worth and invite more people..and have some dancing..you will have guest that will love to dance...you dont care for dancing thats cool..but the guest will...

I have been wondering the same thing as OP but the vibe of my crowd is dinner party like. FH and I and all our friends are in our mid 40's. Family ranges from 40's to 70's. We have small children in attendance and then a couple teenagers ( his son and my daughter both 14). I don't see anyone dancing and I am looking for early in and early out (ceremony at 5 and be done by 9). We are renting a room at a restaurant and I think the good food and good alcohol and cake should lend itself to a nice classy affair without the awkwardness of a DJ trying to get old tired people to dance.

Not tacky at all. It is your choice.

@minime, where is that? Looks familiar.

I don't think it is tacky at all! Dancing isn't required to properly host.

If I can find my bam you can check out my reception- 30ish people- paid a pretty penny for the venue and the food/alcohol.

And it was awesome- everyone had a lovely time for the most part. (okay- that's the appearance- but plenty of food- and plenty of booze and few people complain)

Found it

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-forums/bam-bishes-bam/eab6641a4ef685dd.html

Not tacky. We had about 65 guests. We did dinner and open bar and of course a cake cutting, but no dancing, bouquet toss, or garter toss. We did hire a string quartet and when they weren't playing we had an iPod playlist going of songs like Frank Sinatra and Sara Bareilles etc

Our evening ended around 10:30pm, which was fine by me! It was intimate and lovely, and many commented that it was one of their favorite weddings they'd been to.

Not tacky at all! Some of my favorite weddings have been just like what you are thinking.

It would only be tacky if you had a venue with a dance floor and reception lasting 5 hours. What you described is fine. A nice dinner reception at a restaurant with people mingling is just fine. The restaurant will probably have some background music.

Not tacky at all! That's actually what we're doing. We have a guest list of 30, we're having the ceremony and then off to dinner. The restaurant we chose did just that and let us reserve a room that seats up to 60 people with no additional charge. We'll be covering dinner and drinks and the restaurant allows us to bring in a wedding cake from an outside vendor. I think the idea works for a smaller crowd that isn't going to have this "party" vibe/expectation. Also on our invitations we will be putting "Dinner and drinks to follow" or something along those lines instead of reception to follow so that our guests have a better idea of what to expect

Not weird at all. I think the only thing that makes no dancing weird is if you have a venue with a dance floor and it feels like the type of place where there should be dancing (music, etc), but no one is dancing. If you go for a quieter, more intimate dinner party vibe, I think no one will feel like they're really missing out.