I know this plan/schedule isn’t the best, but our wedding is small with our closest family and friends. We are looking at about 30-35 guests at the most for a DW in Gatlinburg. The venue we choose is beautiful and all inclusive, but the options they offered weren’t great. The on-site dinner menu was bad and with my FH being a chef he was not comfortable with the choices. In addition the package with the dinner reception didn’t include ownership of pictures and that would have cost us a ton more money. On the flip side, we could do the ceremony only package with complete ownership of all images and add on a small reception with a grazing table and the cake. This is what we opted for because of the photos and the lack of menu options for dinner. However, I also wanted to add an extra hour so that we would have 3 hours onsite instead of two. They agreed to let us add on the extra hour, but required us to push back our starting time to 3:00.
So we will arrive at 3:00, ceremony to start at 3:30/3:45 and will last about 20 minutes then pictures and reception. We must be out by 6:00. Yes I know we should really be offering dinner at this time, but we went back and forth and just decided the grazing table and cake would serve as hot d'oeuvres and then everyone could do dinner on their own (most will probably do something together).
My question.... how do we word the reception part on the invites to clarify that it isn’t a full meal?
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