Thank you so much for making this video. This is quite literally the only video I’ve found that has helped lay out how to even start a reception only “wedding”. Thank you!! 🎉
Girl, where have you been all this time? I'm so glad that i found your channel! This is exactly what we are thinking too! Our "ceremony" is more like tea ceremony, etc, not the typical "walking down the aisle" ceremony. Thank you for addressing these more unique topics!!!
I need this! I just had a 25-person micro wedding last week and I wanted to do a big reception next year! I don't know where to start because I still want a feel of it being a wedding without walking down the aisle! Do I still need a bridal party without a ceremony? How can we make it still feel like a wedding (for our guests) even if there is no ceremony?
You definitely don't have to have a wedding party. Do anything you'd like. Have a cocktail hour before guests sit down to dinner. That gives it a wedding feel. Consider a little entrance or speech to welcome guests so it feels like a formal event.
@@cavinelizabeth Thank you so much for your response! :) I was worried it wouldn't feel like a wedding anymore but yes cocktail hour or even entrance and welcome speech would add into the wedding feel.
I did and a recent couple I photographed without a ceremony did :) Just have your dj/band announce you into the space as usual. It works just like a "regular" wedding. My wedding and that other wedding had cocktail hours before the reception and for both, the couple was at cocktail hour mingling with guests and did a grand entrance into the reception. You could alternatively do the grand entrance into the first "event" like cocktail hour or the reception if there is no cocktail hour.
I don't know what's confusing. You can have a wedding party without a ceremony. They are simply your closest friends you have surrounding you on a wedding day. There are no hard rules for a wedding. Do it any way you want.
Thank you so much for making this video. This is quite literally the only video I’ve found that has helped lay out how to even start a reception only “wedding”. Thank you!! 🎉
You're very welcome!
Girl, where have you been all this time? I'm so glad that i found your channel! This is exactly what we are thinking too! Our "ceremony" is more like tea ceremony, etc, not the typical "walking down the aisle" ceremony. Thank you for addressing these more unique topics!!!
Of course! We had a courthouse ceremony so we just had a reception for guests and it was fun being creative with the timeline!
Thank you for this! A friend suggested thisto me and I’m glad someone else did it and it worked fine!!
Yes! It was perfect for us :)
Thank you so much, my fiancé and I are choosing to do a private ceremony but we want to have a reception with all our friends and family!
Sounds great!
Thanks so much for sharing your experience! I love this! How far apart were your ceremony day and reception?
Three months I think. We didn’t tell anyone we went that early except a friend or two. Some people get weird about that, unfortunately.
I need this! I just had a 25-person micro wedding last week and I wanted to do a big reception next year! I don't know where to start because I still want a feel of it being a wedding without walking down the aisle! Do I still need a bridal party without a ceremony? How can we make it still feel like a wedding (for our guests) even if there is no ceremony?
You definitely don't have to have a wedding party. Do anything you'd like. Have a cocktail hour before guests sit down to dinner. That gives it a wedding feel. Consider a little entrance or speech to welcome guests so it feels like a formal event.
@@cavinelizabeth Thank you so much for your response! :) I was worried it wouldn't feel like a wedding anymore but yes cocktail hour or even entrance and welcome speech would add into the wedding feel.
Can you give us the schedule of how your wedding went this is genius 😍
Would you have a grand entrance? Thinking of this and am just not sure how the beginning of it would go.
I did and a recent couple I photographed without a ceremony did :) Just have your dj/band announce you into the space as usual. It works just like a "regular" wedding. My wedding and that other wedding had cocktail hours before the reception and for both, the couple was at cocktail hour mingling with guests and did a grand entrance into the reception. You could alternatively do the grand entrance into the first "event" like cocktail hour or the reception if there is no cocktail hour.
@@cavinelizabeth thanks so much for this info, very helpful!!
I’m confused ? No ceremony but you have a bridal party ? I’m sorry I’m just not getting the idea
I don't know what's confusing. You can have a wedding party without a ceremony. They are simply your closest friends you have surrounding you on a wedding day. There are no hard rules for a wedding. Do it any way you want.