Just a ceremony...

I’m considering putting on the invite “ceremony only”, “meal only”, or “both ceremony and meal” because I know different people will feel safe in different contexts.

Me and my FH will also have ceremony we are in IN and a restaurant dinner afterwards but we will have a photographer with us and cutting the cake and making a toast. We have less than 15 people with us and I’m also live streaming the rest during the ceremony. Also it doesn’t look cheap because It’s not about the wedding it’s about the marriage so feel what YOU must do in order to make YOU happy!! Remember this is YOUR day and no one else’s ❤️🎉🎊

My fiancé and I are legally getting married and doing a small ceremony in October and we are doing the bigger wedding for March. There will only be a few people celebrating in October with us but everyone else will celebrate in March.

I think Itis cheap at all. I would just say


Due to unforeseen circumstances we have made the hard decision to cancel our reception. We will continue to get married on blank date and if you would like to attended all are welcome with these precautions and guidelines. We promise to share photos with all of you, and thank all of you who have supported us, loved us and cared for us on our journey to become husband and wife
Sorry if there is any typos I just wrote this off the top of my head. Hope this helps

I meant to say *i don’t think Itis cheap

Sorry, but I personally wouldn't do that and do feel that it's rather tacky. I think that if you're going to invite people to your ceremony, you need to throw some sort of "thank you" for coming. Even just cake and punch would do.

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Yeah I think it is more than okay to just do a ceremony. The true VIPs will come, and you can always celebrate informally later. Some people won't even feel comfortable with a cake and punch, so I don't think you'll look cheap. A little gift post-ceremony might be nice to let people know that you value their presence and would have loved to host them if circumstances were different.

I would at least have some type of meal afterwards even if it's just pizza.

In general it would seem cheap but given the circumstances I think people will understand. If YOU personally are comfortable having a reception (or at least serving a meal or something) maybe host something small and casual, and give people the option to rsvp to ceremony only, or both. But if you are not comfortable having a reception then don't do it. I really think the criteria for etiquette has changed so much during this situation, you just have to do what works best for you and hope people will be understanding.