Hello everybody!
My husband and I got engaged in April 2020, and planned our wedding for April 2021. A few months before our wedding, our state still had a lot of mandates in place so we decided to postpone our big reception until April 2022 so we could have our dream wedding, but we still got married in a super intimate ceremony on our original wedding weekend. Now we’re at the point where we’re kind of over it and don’t want to drop all the money to throw a 2.0 wedding.. we considered cancelling and calling it a loss, but we didn’t do any of our special dances and and stuff and we still want to be able to celebrate with all of our loved ones and use all of the stuff we purchased and I created. Our venue will let us throw a “party” and our original down payment covers that so it will cut our costs substantially.
Has anybody done anything like this? I’m thinking I’ll have the invitations say “to celebrate the marriage of” or something along those lines? We’ll do a 30 minute mingle in place of cocktail hour then head into the festivities like a normal reception I think, unless anybody has any other suggestions?