is it acceptable to skip a wedding & go to the reception?

[Stavs]

Anyone have any etiqutte on this?

[mstudio]

Why not? As long as you were invited, of course. Apologize for not being able to make it and ask about all the details. Just make sure you bring a gift.

[iaJim]

I think lots of people do this, and the bride and groom are just glad to see you.

[rgG]

Sitting through a boring wedding is the price you pay to get to go to the reception. If they didn't want you to have to come to the wedding, they would have eloped and then thrown a big party after they returned. Which, BTW, is what we did.

It is bad form, IMO, to skip the wedding and only go to the reception. That is the same thing that I told my daughter a couple of years ago when she was invited to a lot of her friend's Bar and Bat mitzvahs. If you are going to the party later, then you have to go sit through the service that morning. Many of her friends would just cut the ceremony and only go to the party, which I thought was wrong. Just my opinion, though.

[ho'ard]

[quote rgG]Sitting through a boring wedding is the price you pay to get to go to the reception. If they didn't want you to have to come to the wedding, they would have eloped and then thrown a big party after they returned. Which, BTW, is what we did.

It is bad form, IMO, to skip the wedding and only go to the reception. That is the same thing that I told my daughter a couple of years ago when she was invited to a lot of her friend's Bar and Bat mitzvahs. If you are going to the party later, then you have to go sit through the service that morning. Many of her friends would just cut the ceremony and only go to the party, which I thought was wrong. Just my opinion, though.
I sort of agree, but don't think this is universal-- I'd feel them out about it if you can come up with a creative way to do so.

Am I the only one who finds a wedding ceremony less boring than a reception?

[kap]

I'd skip'm all and go straight to the Bachelorette's party

[davester]

You're kidding, right? Only if you are a fireman and have an appointment to rescue people out of a burning building during the fire. All other excuses are unacceptable.

[Stavs]

Yeah...I'm just going to go...its the least I can do...the distance is a pain, but its the right thing to do.

Stavs

[blusubaru]

It's kind of an insult to skip the wedding and just go to the reception, unless you're one of those fringe invitees to begin with. Unless they do a major receiving line, they won't remember if you were at the ceremony or not.

[Grateful11]

I don't think it very polite to do so. I went to a wedding just last weekend and my mother
called and said, "if you can't make it just come the reception at the country club". I told her
there was no way I was going to do that, it's just not right.