Evening guests, rude or not?

[Raven113]

Hi,

I am not a fan of having two tiers of guests at my wedding. Fiance loves the idea of evening guests. Would love to get everyone's thoughts?

I am totally ok with evening guests. Weddings are expensive as fuck as it is.

Have been invited for a cousins evening reception next year, understandable as large family and he probably feels like if he invited one cousin he has to invite them all so easier to just invite everyone to the evening (aunts/uncles are going to the whole day though). We aren't especially close anyway but still looking forward to going as will be nice to wish him congrats and see some other distant family members I don't see often

Evening invites pretty normal as far as I'm concerned, not rude. I woildnt expect people to travel a long way for just the evening though and I have turned down evening invitations for being too far to go for a short event. I wasn't offended, just lazy!

Personally I wouldn't expect to give/receive an evening only invite if it was a family member.

Agree with pp that they are good for fairly local guests e.g. work colleagues.

We had a 4pm wedding for close family only and then a sit down reception and dancin for 100 in all. I think a full day is very tirin for everyone. There were a few people that we invited to join us after the meal such as a couple of very new girlfriends we had not known existed.

Evening invites are ok for those who live close by, neighbours and work colleagues are great examples, but also more distant family, cousins you aren't close to etc.