Advice on Vegas wedding and reception at home

I got married at the Bellagio fountains last Sept - was spectacular! They do a 'just the two of us package which includes all of the main bits and pieces. Would not change a thing or do it anywhere else in the world. I had some photos on here somewhere...we did not have a reception when we got home-defeated the whole object of doing it abroad to me, we took a small group out with us. Love love love Vegas - fell in love like you during a California road trip

Wow i've just checked out that package, it looks incredible!

Unfortunately it's a little out of our budget, we're having a bit of a budget ceremony as we're saving up to do the trip afterwards also.

The reason we are choosing to have a party back home as well is because we would still like a chance to celebrate with our friends and family as no body will be coming out to Vegas with us.

We always had a plan to buy a house, go on our second road trip and get married. But financially we realised we were going to have to cut some corners if we wanted to do all of that in the next couple of years. After saving up for a house we couldn't imagine saving up again to go away and then saving all over again to get married. Whereas a Vegas wedding and just a party back home is much more realistic for us money-wise.

Hey!

I did exactly this, sent out invites to vegas a year before incase anyone wanted to come but put that we would be having a party before we went as we travelled for 3.5 months after, or you could just do an invite when your home? A suprise we got married come celebrate with us!

In vegas we got married on a tuesday evening in the viva las vegas outdoor gazebo, perfect for us just want we wanted and cost about $300!

Good luck! Happy planning ?

Hi,

My sister got married at the excaliber castle casino. We stayed at the bellagio which is the most beautiful hotel ive ever laid eyes on! the only thing that was an issue was getting the marriage license from the county court house. Make sure you're in las vegas for a certain amount of time as you have to be there before they will grant you licence. Good luck- Viva las Vegas!

HI Beccah,

I have seen the gazebo at the viva las vegas chapel I love it!

How far in advance did you book this? What time of year was it? My only issue is we're thinking of going in June and we wanted to get married in the morning so we could have the rest of the day to celebrate, but I'm thinking an outdoor ceremony might be too hot in June!!

We're only traveling for a couple of weeks after and thinking of having a party back home after the summer season has died down, we live on the Isle of Wight so booking anything in the summer is madness here!

Thanks for your advice!

HI SunnyRedCars

We stayed at the excalibur last time we visited Vegas. I thought it was brilliant!

Oh i would love to stay at the bellagio, not sure we can afford quite that much but we'll certainly try!

I've read that to speed up the marriage license process you can fill out a form online before heading to the county clerks office, did your sister do this? I think we're planning on arriving in the morning and having the day to sort out final bits and get the license and get married the following day. We're not keen to spend too much time in Vegas in total as we'd like to get on the road for our honeymoon!

Thanks for the good luck - all seems a bit surreal currently! It helps that it's just us planning to go out there, not having to organise anyone else! We'll let close friends and family know when and where incase they want to sort out their own trip out there but we're really not fussed if it's just us!

We applied online and then arrived in Vegas on the weds picked up marriage licence on the Thurs and married on the Tuesday, it was august so bloody hot which is why we did it at night plus I wanted to be able to see all the fairy lights ?

Sorry booked in the june for the august and stayed at the Flamingo x

Hello We are getting married at the Bellagio Hotel in October this year and we are then having a reception when we get home.

Our immediate family and close friends are coming to Vegas with us but we still wanted to celebrate with everyone else. I didn't want just the party reception so we are having a dinner and inviting people who we would have had at the full wedding had we decided to have it in the UK. We sent out save the dates for it that said:

'so it's true, on 18th Oct 2018 we are going to Las Vegas to say I Do, but of course we would still love to celebrate with you! Please save the date to join the future Mr and Mrs for our Wedding Dinner on the evening of...'

Something like that for a save the date might help with your family who are unhappy about not getting to the actual wedding but you are showing you would still like to celebrate your marriage with them

Our plan for the evening is to have a drinks reception for everyone showing up, then everyone seated and do speeches. We are then having a 3 course dinner followed by a slide show of our pics from Vegas and some clips from our wedding ceremony as it is recorded for us. We will have a cake but not a traditional wedding cake and will bring the Vegas theme into it. We then have a few Vegas style surprises for the rest of the night and i'm still unsure whether to have a DJ or not.

We are having the evening at a local hotel and as we are not there as a full day wedding, they gave us a really good deal. I know the dinner thing might not what you're thinking of if you'd rather put the money into your road trip which sounds amazing!

And i LOVE the fact I am getting to wear my wedding dress twice too!

Happy planning!

Thank you so much for your input!!

Your plan sounds pretty much like what we want to do, except instead of a sit down meal I think we'll be having a buffet.

But like you, I still fancied the cake, and speeches and we're planning a first (second) dance haha

Your idea of the invitations sounds great.

Hey - doing a similar thing but not in Vegas. We've opted for a desert wedding outdoors (Lake Powell) followed by a day of activities in our wedding outfits. Just the two of us.

We're throwing a wedding party / reception when we get back, for us, we're treating it as a chance to treat our family and friends. It has all the elements of a wedding reception without the wedding. By this I mean that we've got welcome drinks, a cake, a first dance and some speeches (informal just to thank people!) Are people annoyed by this? No. We've been upfront since the start of planing to make sure everyone knows that we've decided to go just the two of us because that's what we feel comfortable with.

For our invites - we called it a 'Wedding Party'. It's 2018 - there should be zero rules on this type of thing and for the best part, most people aren't too bothered, so long as the couple is happy!

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