What to do after reception and day after wedding?

Most of us are going to tell you that you will be *exhausted* after your wedding.

You may very well want to go home and sleep.

On the other hand, you can always go take more pictures, or do something fun in your wedding finery that you'd normally do in jeans.

My FH and I plan on doing a bonfire ir fire pit type thing. Ours is New years Eve (next year), we're planning an early ceremony with reception kind of late lunch/early dinner. Then in the evening, well do a fire, but the invite will be more for family, out of town guests, and the wedding party, not necessarily everyone who was at the wedding.

I wouldn't schedule anything after the reception. Like PP said, you will likely be exhausted afterward. If the end of your reception is approaching and you still have energy and the desire to do something else, you can make plans then, but you don't want to be locked into plans that you no longer want to fulfill.

Since you also have very limited time with your new husband, you may very well want to spend alone time with him instead of running around with friends and family. If I was you, I would book a hotel room for a night or two, order room service, and enjoy my time with my new spouse.

I think booking a hotel and just relaxing would be nice. You will be glad to have some alone time after the big day.

If you wanted to continue the party vibe with friends and family a friend of mine went bowling after her wedding, in her dress lol. Or just have some one on one time with your new husband before he has to go back.

If you're actually going to have the energy, maybe go to some kind of arcade or, as someone else suggested, a bowling alley. You may just want to get a hotel room and celebrate with your husband too. For the next day, make plans to meet up with friends and family for brunch or sightseeing if you're in an area that is good for that.

You and your wedding party could: go to an escape room, go bowling, go ax throwing, etc.

We went out to dinner with about 20 or so friends after our wedding (ours ended at 5pm) and then my husband’s best man, 1 groomsman, and another friend and his wife came up to our hotel suite to hang out after. It was low key and wonderful! The 4 people who ended up staying with us most of the night are all from out of town so we almost never see them. The whole wedding we felt so weird and like we saw everyone, yet we spent time with no one (that’s just how a wedding is though...) but then we actually felt like we got to spend time with these people afterwards which was great.


I honestly feel like a bar or something would’ve been too exhausting. As much as we still wanted to spend time with people, we were still SO tired. By the time we finished dinner I was just exhausted. But having people come back to our room to hang out was a perfect middle ground.

Could you have a romantic evening in your hotel room? Room service, romantic movie, maybe a couples massage, etc.? If you have family in town the next day still, you may want to have brunch or lunch with them.