Small wedding, big reception. I need help!!

Here you go....

BRIDE

and

GROOM

are happy to announce

their marriage

on DAY

YEAR

CITY, STATE

Please join them

for a celebration

on DAY

YEAR

TIME

LOCATION

CITY, STATE

Here is the site I got them from, we are using one of them from here, we also decided to get married at the JOP and have a reception later for our guests....here is the site...

http://www.paperandmore.com/articles/wording_verses/wedding/post_wedding_reception_1.html

They are called Post wedding reception verses

Maybe state that you are having a small,close family only ceremony, but state that they are invited to the reception at _________ (location.) I'm sure people will understand if you tell them that you wanted to keep the ceremony simple and private.

Hi Traci_Bob,

That's something different. Might I ask why you chose to get married privately and then have a large reception?

Here is ours, we love this, FH thought it was the best, lol.

We kept it simple, we didn't think twice

a private wedding, we thought would be nice.

Were married now, as happy as can be

Please celebrate with us, with a little party!

.

lol of course that won't work for you but look on the site I gave you hon, you might see something you like Good Luck!

This is what we are using:

NAME GOES HERE FOR INVTED

Are invited to an evening reception

To celebrate the marriage of

Bride & Groom

On Friday July 30, 2010

Cocktails to start at 6:15pm Dinner to follow

At The Location in Boulder, CO

Please RSVP no later then 06/20/2010

*we are sending 2 different invites one to the reception only (Above), and one to both reception and ceremony.

HiStarsteph! lol I actually have a post on here somewhere explaining it but it basically came down to FMIL being a pain in the a**. I was married before and as much as a nice big wedding would have been for both of us, we decided to forgo it and do it this way. On June 12th, our original date, we are having a picnic/reception to celebrate with everyone

Starsteph, the wedding itself was becoming about everyone else and not us. It was getting way stressful trying to please peopke and it never pleasing them anyway no matter what we did so for US, this was better and released A LOT of stress, lol.

MRW8, that is real nice hon

That sounds nice do what you guys want .something small and private is great and can be very nice as well. may God bless you both.

Thank you, I like nice plain and simple lol.

I wanted to note that is is a "evening" reception because I do want people to be dressed nice (not over the top but nice). I'm speding a lot of money (well alot to us) and it's a nicer restaurant we are having it at.

I hope no one shows up in torn blue jeans and a t-shirt! (That happed at my MOH's wedding last may)

We are doing something similar... We are having and small ceremony with large reception to follow. We did 2 seperate invitations... one for ceremony and reception and one for reception only...

Reception only invite states-

Together with their Families,

Bride and Groom

Wish for you to share in the celebration of their marriage at an adults only reception Saturday, the Twenty Seventh of March, Two Thousand and Ten at Six O'clock in the evening

Reception Location

Address

City and State

Also nice Kristen

We are wanting a small ceremony for a few reasons. One is that neither one of us are a big fan of having a large crowd (even with friends and family!). Another is that we are most comfertable sayin our vows & being more open when its a more intamint setting. Costs are also a factor. Im a full-time college student, he's the only one bringing in the money - other than my Ebay sales & student loans! And lastly, It's just a big hassel to have a large wedding ceremony. Except his parents. :p Our parents, siblings and my grandmother will be the only guests at our wedding ceremony. It suits us just fine.

Also, when it comes to the invatations - Should I send Wedding Reception RSVP cards to family that will be at the wedding & then A Reception invite RSVP "Were married" cards to everyone else? What time frame should I send them out? We're getting married 10-10-2010, and I would like to have reception that night. How can I go ahead and send invites to invite ppl to the reception?

I am also trying to figure this out. We are also getting married 10-10-2010 and hoping to have the reception that evening. The wedding itself will only extend to about 10 people with a reception for around 130 people later that night. I'm not really sure how to go about the reception invitations without anyone feeling like they just weren't invited to the wedding. It is also going to me a very casual "come as you are" kind of reception. Some pointers would be wonderful.

I am having this same question.

We just have so many friends that are important in our lives, and it is somewhat hard to figure out how to have some of our closest friends invited to the wedding and the reception being seperate...