After Disney Reception at Home -- What to wear?

[fiskboso]

Has anyone had a reception at home after their Disney wedding? I'm just curious as to what you did, how you dressed (wedding dress or other), and if you treated it as a standard reception. I'd love to get ideas since we are definately having a reception at home for those who couldn't make it to Disney.

Thanks for any help you can give!!

 

[Cinderella2006]

I am doing the same. My mum and step dad couldn't make it, as neither could my grandparents or my fiancés parents due to health reasons. We decided that the only way we would have our Disney Wedding was if we had a big reception when we got home.
We are having ours a week after we come back. We are going for formal, as my mum wouldn’t have seen me in my dress, so both my fiancé and me will be wearing our wedding outfits. I wanted to add a bit of Disney and remind people where we actually got married!

We are having a four tier wedding cake with a sugar crafted Cinderella castle on the top, having it on a stand about 2 feet from the table with a running fountain underneath - it is stunning! We will also have the Mickey and Minnie plush on our table and Mickey confetti. We don’t want to overdue it. We have also hired a projection TV so when people are eating we can show them our wedding video. That way I wont get people nagging me for days asking for a copy!

Hope this helps; I would also be interested in anyone else’s opinions.

 

[NJOYURLIFE]

Cinderella2006,
That cake sounds magnificent! I hope you can post a picture when you can!

OP- I can't personally answer your question. The closet info I have on the subject is my cousin who got married in Las Vegas and then had a reception in New Jersey. She wore her wedding gown and he wore a tux.

 

[JJClemson]

We are planning on having 2 home receptions when we return from Disney. The first will be the day after we return from WDW at my parents' house in NJ. It will be informal (we will not wear our wedding dress and suit) and it is for all my family and friends that were not invited to Disney. It will just be appetizers and desserts in my backyard. Then, when we get back to SC, we will have another reception at DF's parents' lake house in our old college town. We are waiting to have this one on a football weekend in the Fall so all our old friends will be in town. So, this one will be very informal, probably BBQ style. HTH

 

[hfehr1s]

We are having a large, formal reception at home about a week after we return from Disney, for everyone who we couldn't invite to go to Disney. We are treating it just like a regular wedding reception and we will be in our wedding attire. HTH

 

[Codie]

We had a cocktail reception (a little cheaper but at a formal banquet hall) the Friday we got home from our honeymoon (we got home on Thursday). It was a bit stressful--especially because some of the final details had to be handled from our honeymoon. But it was great--we wore our wedding attire...all but one of my bridesmaids wore their dresses again (my sil hated her dress and wore another, which was fine with me, although I was sad that she disliked her dress so much and it is now a family joke). The guests wore business casual for the most part. We were introduced...we had a wedding cake (we hadn't had one in Disney)...we had a projection screen that we played slides of the pictures that Randy had taken. We didn't have time to put them all facing the same direction--so it was a bit ghetto, but whatever My dh wouldn't let me do a disney theme for the home reception--he thought it was "in your face" to those that weren't invited to Florida. I didn't really see the big deal, but it wasn't a big deal to just make it a non-themed event either. We loved our home reception and so did everyone who came...

 

[friendofgusgus]

Fiskboso-

We are having an Intimate Wedding at Disney on 12/11 and are having our reception at home on 12/31. My FH and I will both be wearing our wedding attire (although I'll probably skip the veil, since I'm only wearing that for the ceremony, even in WDW) and the invitations invite our guests to our "reception."

There is always a lot of discussion about at-home receptions for destination brides about whether or not to call it a "reception," but for us, that's really what it is. Only a handful of family are coming to Florida and we won't see our other family until the reception, so it's not that different than if we had gotten married 3 hours ago at a private ceremony, rather than 3 weeks.

Although we're paying the bill, my parents are the hosts of the at-home reception (it's my 1st marriage, FH's second) and, as my parents, they are entitled to host my "reception" whenever and wherever they like. I've gotten some grief - mostly from destination brides on other sites - about calling it a reception, but that's really what it is. It's the first time we'll be introduced to anyone as husband and wife, our guests and families will see us in our wedding clothes, and it's a party thrown by my parents to "receive" us as newlyweds.

My opinion (and that's all it is!) is that if you're going to socialize with the same guests after your wedding but before your party, then it's really a party and not so much a "reception." If, however, you're going to see them as a married couple for the first time at the event, you're wearing your wedding clothes and your event includes traditional reception activities like cutting the cake, first and/or parent dances, etc. then it's a reception - even if it does not immediately follow your ceremony. I also think that it's important to make sure your guests know that they are being invited to a reception only so they are not disappointed. (Our invites state "to the wedding reception of their daughter Jennifer Ann and FH."

Sorry this is so long - as you can probably tell, there's been plenty of discussion around here on this topic!

Jennifer
12/11/06
Intimate
Wedding Pavillion/Commanders Terrace

 

[allisonswonderland]

I am wearing my gown- we will be home on Saturday and then it will be held the follwoing Sat-

 

[D&R love Disney]

We had a hall reception at home 2 months after our intimate wedding. It was a great time and I wore my wedding dress. DH wore nice pants and silk shirt. Many people wanted to see me in my dress so I decided to wear it and it was so much fun to wear it again.

 

[Codie]

I called mine a reception also...I don't know why you would get grief...a reception is a reception

 

[Gabby&Sean]

As I'm from the uk & Seans from Texas, We will be having a home reception in the UK for all the guests who couldn't make it over, besides my family is huge & inviting everyone to disney would have been very very costly.
I plan on a very relaxed affair, ill be wearing my wedding dress again, if i haven't managed to stain it with wine or something (im such a clutz lol).

Cinderella2006 - ur reception sounds wonderful, i hope u post pics

 

[melmel]

Our's was casual. We rented a hall, and did deli platters, and lasagna, and lots of side dishes. We did do another cake. But other then that it was just a big party. We did not wear our attire we both wore jeans.

Melissa