FI and I live in Alaska and both moved up from Cali... most of our family and long time friends live there. We are planning our wedding in Alaska because it's gorgeous and what better reason to get everyone we love up here finally?
As we were going over our invitation list last night, we realized there is a decent percentage of those we love who probably won't be able to make the wedding due to financial reasons. Yes, I know this is an assumption, and they may suprise us and we will be able to pay for an accomodate all those that we invite. However, we toyed with the idea of having a 2nd reception in California later on in the summer so we can celebrate with a larger number of people. Here are my questions:
- Is something like this acceptable? We are thinking of a full on reception, dress, tux, dinner, dancing, etc.
- If so, how would you handle the invites? Ideally we would have as many people as possible at our Alaska event. Part of me feels that if we put both on the invitations, some won't even try to make it to the wedding. They will just think "oh, good, I can save some money and go to this one instead".
- Would guests pick one or the other? Or would family (brother, SIL, niece, etc) who are willing to travel to AK also come to the 2nd reception?
Too many thoughts going through my head here... help!