Afternoon Tea Wedding

What a beautiful idea! It absolutely will work as it is what YOU want. There absolutely does not have to be an evening do, you do you! I would let people know that are not having an evening reception per se but you would love them to have an evening meal with you if they can. You probably will need to have some idea of numbers so your venue can cater the evening meal, but also they may be able to provide a private room or area for the meal. Please do what you want for your day, no one else's opinion matters x

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I think as long as you tell people that you would like them to join you for an evening meal and drinks then it will work fine. If you don’t make it obvious that something else is happening later on then people will just drift off naturally so if you want to meet them later make it clear in the invite and give them a time to meet up. It will mean people who are staying at your venue could freshen up or rest before a meal so it will be nice. My parents and a few others went back to the hotel to change and freshen up after the meal and before the disco. The afternoon tea and pimms sounds lovely. We had pimms as our reception drink actually. Good luck

I went to a wedding like this recently. It was amazing. But maybe in the evening you could have a special meal just the two of you or cocktails at 9 just both of you so you get some time alone.