Ceremony or No Ceremony

We’re in the same boat, had a small ceremony last summer and had ppl watching on Zoom. Since people were able to to watch, I’m debating about whether it’s silly to do it all again? On the other hand I worry people will feel cheated if they travel all the way there and then there’s no ceremony. Interested to see how other people are handling it. Some of the options I’m considering include doing a receiving line as people arrive (maybe with a photo?), walking down the aisle together, showing our wedding video....

Nope, not weird. Do what you want. We had a micro destination wedding (before Covid), and a few months later had a local reception. No ceremony but we did cocktail hour, dinner & dancing. And cake since we didn’t have one at our wedding.

If we decide to go through with it, we’ll just be having our reception this year after having a private ceremony last year. No sense in doing another ceremony when we’ll have been married for over a year.

View Quoted Comment That is how we are feeling. Are you thinking you’ll be doing the traditional reception stuff like a first dance, speeches, etc?

View Quoted Comment Honestly, we’ll probably just do the minimum when it comes to those. We’ll do a dance, we’ll give a speech thanking everyone for coming even though it was unconventional, cake cutting. My husband doesn’t feel the need/desire to dance with his mom, so I probably won’t with my dad and if one set of parents or someone from the wedding party wants to give a speech, we’ll be good with that, but no stressing if they don’t. We’d basically be treating it as a big dinner party at this point. However, we’re also on the fence about canceling because we’re now hoping to be debt free by next year and the reception would definitely not help that, even though many of the vendors are already paid for.