After the Destination Wedding: Affordable outdoor reception venue without catering requirements.

Re: After the Destination Wedding: Affordable outdoor reception venue without catering requirements.

• charcoalandblush member

  

  February 2015

  What you are planning is not a wedding reception. It can be a party celebrating your marriage, but a wedding reception is the event that immediately follows your wedding. Your wedding reception will happen in Cancun. If you decide to have a party, you should not re-create your wedding, wear your wedding gown, have spotlight dances or a ceremonial cake cutting, etc. These are some threads from the etiquette board addressing this:  

  http://forums.theknot.com/discussion/1051364/2nd-reception-invites/p1   

  http://forums.theknot.com/discussion/comment/7560400#Comment_7560400
  

  
  

  
  

  As far as outdoor parties, I know that you can rent out space at the Lake Harriet bandshell but I don't know the details. And Lake Harriet is absolutely beautiful in the summer.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• MesmrEwe member

  

  February 2015

  If you want to wear your dress, have cake, customary dances, etc. GO FOR IT!  The people on the etiquette boards be darned.  This is Minnesota, we have things like open bars, not hosted ones as the norm.  My BIL & SIL had the whole shebang party when they returned from their DW, no big deal!!!  Not everyone can afford to travel nor wants to go to Cancun!  Unless they've got a honeymoon registry that they include wthin the invites, the tacky level isn't there by comparison!

  
  

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