TwistedxKiss
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My fiance and I are considering having an intimate, immediate family only wedding ceremony and dinner reception at my grandmother's house. This amounts to about 30 guests and is at the very top of our budget just about no matter what we do, money is tight. This is not an extravagant wedding by any stretch of the imagination. Homemade food, semi-formal attire, no honeymoon, all DIY, etc-- we hope to provide a beautiful ceremony and a comfortable, delicious meal-- this is all that we can afford, we are out of places to cut.
MOST of the guests are single. Since this is just a family dinner at grandma's house kind of wedding and NOT a bar and dance floor kind of shindig, is it necessary to allow guests who are NOT married, engaged, or cohabitating to bring a date? If we allow a date to everyone, that brings our guest list to almost 60, is out of our price range, makes grandma's house way too small, and means we would have to exclude immediate family members from the wedding-- that just isn't realistic. If only married, engaged, or cohabitating guests bring dates, that keeps us at just under 40 and that is just doable if we keep all our expenses to a bare minimum.
What do you think?
MOST of the guests are single. Since this is just a family dinner at grandma's house kind of wedding and NOT a bar and dance floor kind of shindig, is it necessary to allow guests who are NOT married, engaged, or cohabitating to bring a date? If we allow a date to everyone, that brings our guest list to almost 60, is out of our price range, makes grandma's house way too small, and means we would have to exclude immediate family members from the wedding-- that just isn't realistic. If only married, engaged, or cohabitating guests bring dates, that keeps us at just under 40 and that is just doable if we keep all our expenses to a bare minimum.
What do you think?