{"id":38626,"date":"2011-08-25T01:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/i-cannot-afford-to-invite-everyone-to-my-reception-and-some-people-i-dont-want-at-my-reception-how-do-i-invite-some-guests-to-the-ceremony-but-not-the-reception\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:41:14","slug":"i-cannot-afford-to-invite-everyone-to-my-reception-and-some-people-i-dont-want-at-my-reception-how-do-i-invite-some-guests-to-the-ceremony-but-not-the-reception","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/i-cannot-afford-to-invite-everyone-to-my-reception-and-some-people-i-dont-want-at-my-reception-how-do-i-invite-some-guests-to-the-ceremony-but-not-the-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I invite some guests to the ceremony but not the reception?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">It&#8217;s a tricky situation, but due to the ever increasing cost of weddings, it is one that many modern bridal couples find themselves facing.<\/p>\n<p>How do you tell someone (without creating lifelong hurt) that they&#8217;re welcome to the ceremony, but not the reception?<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, honesty is the best policy. If you tell guests that you&#8217;re on a budget and only close friends and family are invited, most will (hopefully) understand, especially those who aren&#8217;t that close to you.<\/p>\n<p>Let them know that though you can&#8217;t afford to invite everyone to the reception, you&#8217;d love to have them at the ceremony to share and witness what is, in truth, the most significant part of the day.<\/p>\n<p>In days gone by, an invitation to the ceremony implied an invitation to the reception, but back then couples probably weren&#8217;t paying upwards of $100-a-head for the reception, as weddings were generally relatively informal gatherings, usually held at a home or church hall where the cost was significantly lower.<\/p>\n<p>And, frankly, there&#8217;s no getting around the fact that someone invited to the ceremony who isn&#8217;t invited to the reception is probably going to be a little hurt, whether they say so or not. The only way to help avoid awkwardness to be honest and explain that while you&#8217;d love to have them at the reception, you simply cannot afford it<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s assuming your budget is the reason you can&#8217;t have them at the reception. For those guests you simply do not want at your reception, well, there&#8217;s really no way to explain that without discomfort on both sides, so you&#8217;re probably best not inviting those people to either the ceremony or the reception!<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s work colleagues you&#8217;re wondering about, some people simply hold a post-wedding bash just for colleagues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5691,"template":"","au_article_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/38626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/38626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=38626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}