Hello ladies, a little background. I normally lurk but I do post occassionally (mostly on local board). I'm 24, engaged a little over a year.
Originially we were planning for an October 20th, 2012 wedding. After some unforseen circumstances (lay offs/medical bills ect) we decided to push it to April 20th, 2013. We've gone back and forth on this repeatedely, and with the stress of planning and the financial costs of a wedding we have decided to do a courthouse/JOP ceremony on October 20th. We are going to the courthouse to get out license next weekend, I'll buy a cute dress, get a bouquet, and marry the man of my dreams in october.
My question is this, we are only having my mom, dad, and his mom attend the ceremony, so 3 total. My mother wants to invite the extended family (some of whom are out of state) to the house afterwards for a 'reception'/party type thing. So my question is, is it rude to not invite everyone to the ceremony but then invite them to a hosted reception afterwards. Keep in mind we can only have a few witnesses so we are only having our parents, but we'd still like to celebrate with the rest of our family afterwards. Is this rude? And if not, how do I word it on the invitations?