How should we do the local church wedding if we’re doing a destination wedding afterwards?

[Anonymous]

Me and my fiance want to do a destination wedding. But the destination wedding rules is that we have to officially sign our marriage certificate here before we actually go and do the wedding there. We’re also Christian so we do want to do a church wedding here because of the church aspect.

A lot of my guests can’t come to the destination so it’ll just be close people going to the destination wedding, so we wanted to do a small church wedding locally and then the wedding in destination where we’ll be dancing there and celebrating it. Locally when we do the church wedding, I’m not sure what we should do afterwards. Like should we still celebrate here and dance and stuff or should we do a small thing where we play some games and eat some food?

Normally for the traditional weddings, people give money as gifts and stuff, and I don’t want our guests to be like “what is this? We came and it’s not even a real wedding” but at the same time, we want to prioritize the destination wedding as the big wedding.

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4 mo

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4 mo

Sorry, the update is for another question 😂

[RoseySarah]

Sound alike you answered your own question!

Have a small nice wedding there and do the big one at the destination for those who can make it.

Really decorating is not that hard and takes like an hour and then taking it down is faster!

We had a church wedding and were shocked how quickly we out it all up and took it down!

This is about you two becoming one together and enjoying the ceremony how ever it goes not others!

[DreamLife7]

Why are u asking us instead of your fiance? Sounds like ur doing all the planing cause he really doesn't want to marry you

[strateguy632]

make the church one small and in the church just closest friends with light refreshments because you want the main at destination. ignore the woryy about not real because you prioritize the destination. if someone complains say the main thing is the ceremony not the dancing.

[Anonymous]

So you want to get married twice? Why, oh why?

[Mangospacho]

Do the local wedding in the church and then charter a plane to fly all the guests to the destination