Who gets wedding favors?

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This is pretty much a common sense response... Why would you give favors to only a few people and not all?

But I mean I guess you're having a tiered wedding, so...

MMB I thought the same thing lol.

Said favors may have been mentioned in another post. I would not want to be putting together 500 of those

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I was invited to a friend's wedding two years ago. At the end of the ceremony, another friend asked me where the reception was located and I said the directions were on the little card in the invite. She didn't get the invite to the reception and I did. I felt so terrible that I was about to go eat and she wasn't.

I'm assuming this is happening at a large church during a service or something along those lines. I hope that is correct. I can't imagine that you would literally send invitations for the ceremony to 500 and invitations to the reception to 200...

Anyhow, operating on that assumption, you only need favors for the actual guests you invited (i.e., reception guests only).

Have none of you really ever heard of a private reception? I'm saying we are expecting possibly 500 but have only invited 200.

So 300 randos are gonna show up at your wedding?

Wtf is this

So 300 people are just gonna crash your wedding out of the blue?

That literally makes no sense. How can you be expecting 500 but you invited 200? Either way that doesn't seem very private.

When I hear "private reception", I think of eloping and having a private room in a restaurant to ourselves or room service, or having a private room at a nice restaurant, with myself and FH joined by our immediate family (parents + siblings).

Not us and 200-500 invited guests.

No I haven't Robin, I've only been to well catered events where all the guests are invited. What a strange, properly educated about etiquette rock I live under.

This is like a Wedding Crashers sequel directed by Michael Bay.

Where are these extra 300 people coming from?! I hope you are ready to pay for them. If you think that many people are coming then plan for that many favors.

Why are you expecting 300 people that you didn't invite to show up at your wedding ceremony?

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The only possible explanation for this is that you're inviting your whole church to the ceremony and then having a 'smaller" (ha ha, cause it's not small) reception for your closest friends and family.

If you'd put this in your original email, you'd have gotten kinder responses.

So what's the deal?

Ok now..... What the deal with 500 guest.

No, Robin, because that doesn't make any sense.