Small Dinner Wedding Reception without Dancing

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No; I’m not doing something completely different but your wedding is your day to celebrate however you choose to do so!

Not what we're doing but I had originally thought of eloping and just doing a dinner instead of the full out reception. I wanted to find somewhere that I could connect a phone over the speakers to do a first dance, eat, cut cake, maybe a slideshow and then just have the family mingle. Like we were doing a bbq at the house.

We are doing exactly that. Just ceremony, dinner, maybe toast and a cake. We have the venue all day so people can stay as long as they want.

We aren't doing dancing. We won't have a cake or speeches either. We'll have a string quartet for 3 hours and are doing a longer cocktail hour. We're doing lunch though and not dinner, I'm expecting to be done around 3 or 4 and then go out after.

We r doing this as well. Our guest list is 24. We r doing a first dance for FH and I but that will be the only dancing. We r doing toasts and cake cutting, thinking about doing the shoe game as well.

For our DW, we had 15 guests and no dancing. We had an accordionist during cocktail hour and kinda danced anyway. after cocktail hour we had a family-style dinner and then dessert (plated). We had piped in music with our playlist after the accordionist left which helped keep the festive mood going.

I’m doing exactly this !
Were having the ceremony cocktail hour a formal sit down dinner speeches a first dance, cake and just hanging out enjoying the company of everyone for a few hours out on the Venus patio with a fireplace. to celebrate my count is 38 people. Were getting married this Thursday ! I’m beyond excited.

My oldest had 11 guests, a fancy dinner, cake, and no dancing. We had a great time being able to sit all at the same table. It was a lot of fun!

We aren't doing this but, my friends/family are MAJOR party people. I think your idea sounds nice if that's what your guests would enjoy.

We had 20 people at an outdoor ceremony on the ocean. Afterwards we rented out a private room in a brew pub. They served an excellent dinner and we did cake cutting (we had a DQ that was double teired). We didn’t really plan them - we had a few unofficial toasts/speeches. After dinner there as a couch/love seat/chair area where we put out some board games. We played them. For me that was an important part of my childhood when we had guests over we played board games. I looooved that compared to a dance. I wouldn’t have changed our day at all! Loved it! (The room we booked could have 30 people sitting and 42 cocktail/standing) I would try a resteraunt because you don’t have to decorate it much and the service food will be good. It wasn’t even very expensive to be honest. With drinks and tip it was about 1000 bucks for 20 people.

I’m doing a dinner only reception and wondering what you all wore. Did you wear your wedding gown or change into something less formal? We are having dinner at Eddie V’s in a private dining room. To wear the dress or not?

We're at 75 guests (FH has a HUGE family) but small intimate venue and we plan on having jazzy halloween music playing through dinner, but the space isn't really designed for dancing and none of us really dance. Our families would rather eat and mingle. Will do first and parent dances though with cake cutting and speeches. But our reception is all about celebrating together with good food since our families live so far away from us.