Just moved to new state, and having wedding here. Is this considered destination?
Hello,
Please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong forum. New to the site.
My fiance and I just got engaged a month ago, right after we moved cross country. We fell in love here, and want to get married here. The problem is, everyone in our family lives in a Midwest state and we moved to a western state. Would this be considered a destination wedding?
We are paying for the wedding ourselves, and are unsure how to go about inviting people. To avoid anyone getting offended, we decided to invite everyone and whoever is able to make it, fantastic! And whover can't we understand. Would this be acceptable rather than sending out announcements? We got bad reactions from our folks about sending announcements. Mostly about people having hurt feelings because they weren't invited even if they couldn't come!!! If you invite jim, you have to invite sally and so on and so forth.
We anticipate about 20 people at the very most will be able to come. I think we have already offended some people by having the wedding here rather than back in the midwest where everyone lives. But we feel that it's our wedding and we really want to have it here, this is where we fell in love and got engaged and it's a special place for us. That and after buying a house and moving cross country, we can't afford to pay for a wedding and travel back to the midwest at the same time.
Thanks for any input. We have good intentions and don't want to leave anyone out or hurt anyone's feelings.
Thank you!
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Congratulations on your engagement.
I found two answswers to this question on a search for the phrase "is this a destination wedding". Please search in that manner in this forum and if those answers aren't sufficient please let me know. Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
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Thank you. I think I got it.. Since we live here, it would not be considered a destination wedding.
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Absolutely. It is a typical wedding where many of the guests will have to travel to attend, which is very common with so many of us moving far from our families. Rebecca Black, Etiquette Now
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Yes, but if your bridal party must travel to the wedding, you would be responsible for their lodging as you would in the case of the destination wedding. Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
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We are on a budget, so thankfully, the maid of honor and best man are married to each other and are staying at our house while they are here.
We are only having one attendant each, since the wedding will be small and we don't want more attendants than attendees!
Just moved to new state, and having wedding here. Is this considered destination?
