What did you do following your wedding?

I got some great advice from another post on this:


It might be best to leave your plans open from the perspective that you don't want to necessarily over commit to anything especially if you want to relax with each other or party later.

We had a DW and our wedding ended at 11:30 also. We wanted to get the most out of the night so we walked across the street to a local bar and continue the party with anyone that wanted to join us. I’m glad we did because the night goes by way too quickly.

Nope afterward we just spent some alone time. It was a long weekend, a long day, and that needed to be time for just the two of us.

We have the rest of our lives together, we only have all of our loved ones all together for this event/weekend. We plan on continuing to spend time with friends and family to celebrate after the wedding.

We stayed at the hotel that we blocked rooms at. The afterparty started in some other hotel room while we were cleaning up the last of our stuff at the venue. The hotel upgraded us to a suite for free, so we had a bigger room. Our wedding ended at 10:30pm. Honestly, I just wanted to go to sleep. I was exhausted. The party moved to our room and it was really nice getting to catch up with people more casually (only so much conversation you can have at your wedding as the hosts). We kicked everyone out at 1am and I don't think I ever fell asleep faster in my life.

I think it's totally normal. Some people even have a brunch with the bridal party afterward. For us, we scheduled our honeymoon a day after so that we can spend time with out of town family the next day after our wedding.

Personal preference! We have to be out of the venue at 11:00 so we'll all go to a bar in the area afterward. We'd like to spend as much time as possible with family and friends. We'll have the entire week long honeymoon together!

I agree with PP, it's really personal preference. Plenty of people have after parties and I see no issue with that. We were ready for bed by the end of our reception, so an after party was out of the question. I would keep your options open and decide the night of.

We're planning to just go straight to our hotel afterwards. We're not staying at the hotel we have a block at for the night of as I had already booked another hotel room (that was nonrefundable) before I created my block.

There's a bar across the hotel from where we're staying so we're just going to announce anyone's welcome there after we change into comfortable clothes.

We are staying in a suite at a hotel where our room blocks are. There will be lots of family/friends there. I figure we will just go to bed if tired and if not we will stay up and party! but at least we have the option. I just didn't want to go back home after it didn't feel special to just go to sleep in our regular bed haha

My reception ended around that time and we just went home. We were so tired aha we just slept aha

We went back to our cabin and spent time together. Our families/friends partied. Part of me wanted to go hang out with them, but the other part of me just wanted to stay in with my new wife. I wouldn’t plan anything and just see how you’re feeling that night!

We were EXHAUSTED after the wedding. Right back to the room to shove our faces full of food & go to sleep. But we stayed in the same hotel as our family & all our friends, which was great. We saw them all the next day before we left for our honeymoon, and the night before our wedding after the rehearsal dinner. It was super fun to have everyone in one place.

Our party ended early - 730. so we went to a bar afterwards with all the family and friends that wanted to join. luckily the resort we booked our wedding at had a honeymoon cabin for us - but i do wish we wouldve spent less time out after and more time together in the cabin. i would definitely talk to him about it. just tell him you were hoping to spend alone time together and see if you guys can come to a compromise

I probably should have mentioned in my original post that this will be our first night *together* as a couple. Perhaps I'm putting too much significance on it, but I'm pretty sure I won't want to be anywhere near his family.