Both me and my FI got married pretty young the first time around. We both had decent size weddings then and this time we would rather just elope just the two of us. When we both had our first marriages we were young and knew a lot of different people back then, both lived in diff states, and dont see a lot of those people anymore. Now both of us have a lot of mutual friends from the past few years who didn't know either of us when we were married before. So my FI was saying after we elope we should have a party of some sort when we return and invite all our friends especially bc none of these people knew us during our first marriages. A few of his friends know we are planning on eloping in a few months and have asked about if we are going to have a reception or something.
My question is I really have no idea about etiquette with this sort of thing...
Is it ok to have a casual party/reception after we get home from eloping? We really don't need any gifts since we both have most things for our home already so we weren't thinking we should do any sort of registry, but I assume some ppl may ask us about gifts so not sure what to do there...