Post Wedding Celebration

Hey all, I am definitely having a difficult time making a final decision about doing a small wedding (more or else just a small ceremony) and then a reception later on. My fiancé and I were considering changing our mind to doing a small wedding ceremony with our immediate family and a couple of friends this July, due to financial reasons, and then do kind of like a post wedding/elopment celebration layer on. I still want the dancing, the toasts, much of the "traditional" reception things; however, what are some of your thoughts about how long from the small wedding to the date of the post celebration? For example, doing the post wedding celebration 3 months, 6 months, or a year from the wedding celebrating a year of marriage type thing? Kind of feeling conflicted with whether to something more like an elopment now and a wedding later or what.