new to the knot community! need help on my small wedding

Re: new to the knot community! need help on my small wedding

• fallbride1109 member

  

  January 2012

  Joe T. Garcia's in FW is a very popular place for a small wedding reception. Also Reata could be a possibility although I have no idea of the cost. It is generally thought to be poor etiquette to invite anyone to the reception that was not invited to the ceremony. You could however host an after party after dinner if you want to keep the party going.

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• soonjwheeler818

  

  January 2012

  thank you i'll check into that....I know I feel bad but my fiance wanted to do a wedding after party but I wasn't sure if a wedding after party really exist.

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• crash2729 member

  

  January 2012

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_new-knot-community-need-small-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:67f0479a-753f-4385-a4c0-afc3fc37102cPost:72576a02-c445-4a18-b6ee-e72426ee6f53">Re: new to the knot community! need help on my small wedding</a>:
  [QUOTE]thank you i'll check into that....I know I feel bad but my fiance wanted to do a wedding after party but I wasn't sure if a wedding after party really exist.
  Posted by soonjwheeler818[/QUOTE]
  A friend of mine had a wedding after party. But everyone who was invited to the party was at or invited to the wedding. <div>
  </div><div>I think if you wanted to do spread through word of mouth that you might go out to X bar after the wedding and see if people would join. However, I think in this situation even that is questionable.</div>

  

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• soonjwheeler818

  

  January 2012

  My fiance wants to have the wedding after party at Victory Tavern in Downtown Dallas. I don't think some people want to drive that far to Dallas.

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• crash2729 member

  

  January 2012

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_new-knot-community-need-small-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:67f0479a-753f-4385-a4c0-afc3fc37102cPost:015bb979-0151-4a39-a8f4-7a0a5cdc1f44">Re: new to the knot community! need help on my small wedding</a>:
  [QUOTE]My fiance wants to have the wedding after party at Victory Tavern in Downtown Dallas. I don't think some people want to drive that far to Dallas.
  Posted by soonjwheeler818[/QUOTE]
  Is he thinking like a party with invitations and renting out a room? <div>Or just "We're going over here after the wedding join if you want!" </div><div>
  </div><div>If it's the first, it's starting to sound like a tiered wedding which is generally considered to be against etiquette.</div>

  

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• professorscience member

  

  January 2012

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_new-knot-community-need-small-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:67f0479a-753f-4385-a4c0-afc3fc37102cPost:015bb979-0151-4a39-a8f4-7a0a5cdc1f44">Re: new to the knot community! need help on my small wedding</a>:
  [QUOTE]My fiance wants to have the wedding after party at Victory Tavern in Downtown Dallas. I don't think some people want to drive that far to Dallas.
  Posted by soonjwheeler818[/QUOTE]
  
  <div>We did something a bit similar.  After our reception ended, a bunch of us went to a bar that we liked to go to.  It was spread by word-of-mouth, and we didn't invite anyone who wasn't invited to the wedding (although some people found out and came).  Some of the WP also hosted an "after party" at the house of one of the ushers.  Now, none of this usher's roommates had been invited (we didn't know them very well), but they were at this party, and were told to invite anyone they wanted, but that was their right as hosts of the party.  And H and I ended up not even going.</div><div>
  </div><div>But as Stephie said, please do NOT invite people to this afterparty who are not invited to your ceremony and reception.  It's rude.</div>

  

  
  

  
  

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• prlmrg08 member

  

  January 2012

  Also check Los Vaqueros in the FW Stockyards. Very affordable.

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• courtski2004 member

  

  February 2012

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_new-knot-community-need-small-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:67f0479a-753f-4385-a4c0-afc3fc37102cPost:015bb979-0151-4a39-a8f4-7a0a5cdc1f44">Re: new to the knot community! need help on my small wedding</a>:
  [QUOTE]My fiance wants to have the wedding after party at Victory Tavern in Downtown Dallas. I don't think some people want to drive that far to Dallas.
  Posted by soonjwheeler818[/QUOTE]
  
  You're right, that is quite a distance to ask guests to drive. If you aren't wanting a large reception, I think cake and punch (maybe even in a gathering room of the Church) to receive guests after the ceremony to mingle would be nice; then head off to any bar of your choice. Let it be your guests who make the decision to not attend the 'reception' so as to not commit a major breach of etiquette by not inviting some to all of the festivities.
  Some people see it as 'I was good enough to see them get married, but not good enough to go to the party' or vice versa.

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• soonjwheeler818

  

  February 2012

  I understand. My fiance just wants to party with everyone else at the Victory Tavern but now he wants a limo that night and he asked me how do I feel about that? since we won't have a limo after the wedding and that the limo will be me, him, and few more people who want to go....I think that would be too much.

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