Wedding reception 3 years after wedding?

I agree with everyone. You had your real wedding three years ago. To try to redo that is a terrible idea. I think that an anniversary party could be fun. You should book a venue, get someone to cater it, hang decorations and send out invitations. Do not, however, wear a white dress, have a wedding cake or any trappings of a wedding. Remember, this is an anniversary party, and not a do over wedding.

You had a "real" wedding in October 2008. A "real" wedding is one that is legal.

A wedding reception is held on the same day as the wedding. A reception is FOR the guests who attended the wedding.

The time for your wedding and reception is long gone.

You might consider a vow renewal ceremony but unless you limit it to immediate family many will find it tacky and nothing but a gift-grab.

If you want to call it an anniversary party, so be it. But most people would find it very strange to have a big anniversary party for one's 3rd. Try your 10th, 25th, 30th or 50th.

Sorry, if you were dying for a traditional wedding with all the fixings you should not have agreed to the courthouse wedding.

There are just some decisions you can't take back....

Really be careful not to treat your anniversary party like a reception, because it isn't one. Way too late for that. And you did have a REAL wedding, have some respect for the ceremony that bound you both as husband and wife. If it weren't for that you wouldn't have an anniversary to celebrate.

You had your "real wedding" October 2008. That was it what ever it was. 3 years is too soon for a vow renewal. You will be having an anniversary party. Let it be an anniversary party because any attempts to make it like a wedding recpetion will only make you look foolish. The wedding was 3 years ago, it is far too late for anything resembling a wedding recpetion.

human beings's concept will possibly count number on some issues: Is there any reason you may not have the reception the comparable day as your wedding ceremony? (somebody being shipped out, somebody deathly ill, kinfolk coming in from distant places and needs to get visas?) If there isn't an extremely stable and significant reason, then human beings will ask your self why. Are you making plans an extremely formal reception? gown, tux, dinner, dancing, ect. if so, this will additionally be on the unusual part. while you're in basic terms making plans a extra "open homestead" style amassing, it may be much less extraordinary. And rather, making plans a marriage and a reception is annoying, no count once you do it. So there is something to be pronounced for procuring all of it carried out at as quickly as. (Or so says my cousin who had to elope via military and then plan a reception.) you apart from mght run the prospect of human beings not coming on your party. i understand lots of people who sense like in the event that they weren't invited to the marriage, then they at the instant are not likely to the reception via fact the marriage is the "maximum mandatory section". additionally, human beings will understand which you already are married and might settle on that they've extra valuable issues to do with a Saturday than bypass to a party the place they are envisioned to deliver a modern-day. those are some issues to think of approximately. in case you do settle directly to bypass this direction, you may make it VERY sparkling on your human beings and kinfolk. you do not decide for the folk invited on your wedding ceremony to be stunned that there isn't something going on after the ceremony, no foodstuff or amassing, in basic terms thank you for coming and please bypass homestead. (And in case you do have something on your wedding ceremony travellers, nicely, then that's your reception.) and you apart from mght decide for the folk invited to the party who weren't invited to the marriage to appreciate that there will be no ceremony, via fact it already exceeded off. for this reason you opt for for to be strict with your wedding ceremony focused visitor checklist via fact in case you invite one cousin to the actually wedding ceremony and something in user-friendly terms get invited to the party, you extra valuable confirm that one cousin can save his mouth close. stable success with your determination.

If you're not renewing your vows, then don't bother - it'll look like it's just a tacky gift grab. Save money for a "real wedding" on your 5th anniversary, complete with vow renewal and a reception.

most people who want to do this to a vow renewal with an officiant and everything. that way, you can have a beautiful gown...not a wedding dress but something really lovely, you can have attendants, flowers, a reception and all of that. there are plenty of officiants who have special vow renewal ceremonies and you can get plenty of ideas by googling.

you send out invitations and it is pretty much just like a real wedding except that most people will not bring gifts, there is no honeymoon or wedding showers or bach parties..etc. but other than that, it is pretty similar to a wedding. great idea to do it on your anniversary.