If you have moved and have lived in a country for a few years and then get married in that country and invite guests to your wedding as if it were a regular wedding back home is that considered a destination wedding and is the general etiquette the same?
It would be planned like any other wedding, as many times guests have to travel to weddings held outside their state. So, all etiquette would be the same. You may not have a shower except those guests who live in your country though. Anyone who desires to host a shower for you could invite out of the country guests, but the invited may think she needs to send a gift even if she cannot afford to travel for the shower and then again for the wedding. So, it may be best to not invite them.
Thank you for all your help! Actually I am already married and didn't have a shower or anything. We just invited everyone in the US to our wedding in Italy (we live here now) as if it were a wedding in town back home in the US.
We have a religious and civil certificate of our marriage. We are only having a post wedding reception for everyone who couldn't make the trip abroad and I didn't know if we should also have another ceremony in the states.
Thank you again
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edited by TWQadmin on Jul 21, 2008, 11:48 AM)
Once you have a wedding cerermony, you're married. There should be no other wedding. However, hosting a reception, as Rebecca pointed out, is perfectly acceptable and will be a nice way to celebrate with your friends and family.
Please ask any further questions not related to the reception question as a new post. Thank you. Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
is this a destination wedding?
