Wedding Ceremony and no Reception. Do we need favors?

To answer your last question, yes you need to give people something for coming to the ceremony - a reception. You should at least provide cake and punch. The reception is meant to thank your guests for coming. It is incredibly rude to only have a ceremony and then send everyone on their way.

The reception is the thank you for coming to the ceremony. You can keep it small with cake and punch.

You need to thank your guests for coming by hosting them somehow. Skip the favors, they are never necessary but some form of reception is.

Cake and punch would be a nice gesture to say thank you, rather than okay ! bye ! It's rude.

Yes, I agree do something (cake and punch), or just head to the courthouse with a few close family and friends.

Doesnt sound lke you can propely afford a wedding for all your guests.

I was thinking about giving them a cupcake on their way out as a way to say thank you. Would that work?

Lol i think you need to have some type of reception. Probobly more than heres a cupcake.

Is this for real?!

You need to thank your guests by having a reception. Even if it's something small. If you can't afford to feed your guests then you need to cut your guest list. Not everyone you know NEEDS to be invited to your wedding.

Handing them a cupcake as they exit the church is NOT okay!

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I'm sorry but I would be so confused if someone just handed me a cupcake on the way out of a ceremony. :/ please don't do that. Why can't you host a small reception with cake and drinks?

If you invite them to your wedding, you need to do more than just a cupcake. Cake and punch would be cheap and inexpensive.

You could invite closest family and friends (less than 10 people even!) to the courthouse and then take them out to lunch or dinner afterward. If you can't afford to host people, cut the list.

Lol, well... this is why I ask. I've never gotten married before. It just so happened that everyone wants to come.. and my fiance and I are paying for everything... including our moving in and furniture etc, etc.. and we wanted to have a small dinner with close family but extended family would get offended.. so.. I don;t know what to do. My fiance does not even want to do the cupcakes. Nothing.

It's a church wedding by the way.

You don't have to be a genius to realize that you are asking people to come somewhere you have to host them properly...Your fiance is wrong, your plan is bad. Stick with the small dinner and you are good.

Just because everyone "wants to come" doesn't mean they get to come. Invite who you can afford to host.

Could you see if the church has a space you could reserve for immediately after the ceremony? Get some cupcakes/cake, some bottles of water and soda, maybe a few veggie trays or cheese and crackers, and have someone play some background music on an iPod. Mingle with your guests. Depending on how many people, this would probably cost you less than $500.

There are alot of people that "want to come to mine" to bad... its not in our budget/means to host everyone we've ever met.

Either cut the guest list or just go to courthouse. It is not an option to provide a reception is a necessity if you are inviitng them to the ceremony.

Does the church have a small hall that you can host cake in punch in?

I still cant get over the "heres a cupcake"