Would you go to this wedding?

[2021weddingtaketwo]

Original wedding postponed due to Covid to 2022 but I'm now pregnant.

We don't want to wait to be married and all 'proper' weddings are fully booked this year.

Would you attend a low key registry office wedding followed by drinks / bbq in the couples garden?

Or possibly just family at the registry office and invite other guests to the bbq? No pressure to stay a long time etc. Very laid back.

Does it sound naff / weird?

Definitely. It sounds perfect to me.

My ideal!
And my friend did this just last week...
Her, husband 2xDc and PIL!
The photos of them looked beautiful- They bought a selfie stick (No photographer) and hired a proffesional camera...
It all looked perfect!

Yes sounds lovely.

Absolutely! It sounds great.

We always planned for a small wedding, and had 20 people round for afternoon tea. It was perfect, to be surrounded by all the people that I love and knew they loved me.

Do it, you won't regret it x

I’d be honoured to be invited. See if you can get staff in so that no one ends up with all the work.

Sounds lovely to me - I’d much rather attend a wedding like that than an uptight stuffy formal wedding!

Yes, I'd absolutely go!

@2021weddingtaketwo

Original wedding postponed due to Covid to 2022 but I'm now pregnant.

We don't want to wait to be married and all 'proper' weddings are fully booked this year.

Would you attend a low key registry office wedding followed by drinks / bbq in the couples garden?

Or possibly just family at the registry office and invite other guests to the bbq? No pressure to stay a long time etc. Very laid back.

Does it sound naff / weird?

If I ever got married I would do the wedding just as you describe.

It sounds utterly charming OP!

Congratulations xxx

(and when you think about it - this is far more romantic. Not blowing £30k on a wedding might enable you to retire a couple of years earlier together ❤️)

Sounds very much better than the usual "chair covers and speeches" wedding.
Congratulations!

I’d attend any wedding I was close enough to the couple for so long as they didn’t host it on the moon.

I’ve been to weddings that were a reserved area in a pub after a registry; a church wedding followed by make your own dinner plans followed by a a great house party for a couple that were hard up - note I still travelled 400miles to this wedding - it’s the friends not the event! Entirely in a church hall and over by 8pm.At the other end, the all inclusive foreign weddings and weddings at famous locations also chosen by celebrities with huge arrays of extras!

If I don’t go to a wedding it either clashed (in one case Requiring travelling to Canada four days before my own wedding) with another or I didn’t feel I knew the person enough.

I think it sounds great but it really depends on the number of people you plan to have at the bbq!
To be fair, I won’t be going to any 100 people weddings for the foreseeable future - I would attend a wedding if I were one of 10-15 guests asked, I would come to your bbq if it were very close family/friend or if you were staggering across the afternoon/evening but if you plan to have 50+ people all at once you seriously need to ask how much space you have in your garden + things like parking, how many toilets you have, how you are planning to deal with the food Etc

I would! It sounds lovely.
You’re cutting out the overnight stay and travel faff for anyone who lives near you. And a lot of people don’t like the formality of a normal wedding.

Just throw in casual dress code, and I’d be there.

Much nicer than formal upity weddings.

Only tip is bribe your neighbours with gifts in advance if you’re going on late ... though having the police at a wedding is certainly exciting.

I'd love that!

Thanks all 🥳

We live in London and majority of our friends live in walking distance so parking isn't an issue! Don't have a huge garden but think we can make it work and ideally hire someone to man the bbq!

Sounds perfect! Do it

Just make sure there is plenty of food. Plenty of friends have done similar but a few times there has been insufficient food, which puts a downer on things! Maybe have a load of emergency garlic bread or something.

Why on earth would someone not attend?

I’d be at my good friend’s wedding if it consisted of a glass of tap water in an underpass.

Sounds lovely! Congratulations x

Sounds perfect!

That's what we are doing
Less hassle and loads cheaper
I'm hiring a marquee (smaller one)
Photo booth
Kids entertainer
And bring your own booze!! So people will save money

To be honest, that sounds far nicer than a big wedding (to me).

I'd rather go to this wedding than the over planned stress filled money guzzling ones that have become so common

It sounds lovely, OP.