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At the last few weddings I've been to, the bride and groom have stuck around at the hotel bar (or in one afternoon wedding, the bride's parents' place) and partied with the younger guests. The last couple getting married they were both 30 (like me and FI) so it's not just "really young couples."
FI and I don't think we'll be up for it. Our reception ends at midnight and we plan to have an "exit" with sparklers and a nice car. We're staying in the same hotel as everyone though, so we could easily go down to the hotel bar and hang out for a few hours (I guess after I changed into an afterparty-dress?), but I don't know, I'm not feeling it. We have about 50% out of towners so there would definitely be lots of people to hang out with, and part of me thinks that we should do it because well, when are we going to see these guys altogether again (although they are all invited to a beach day the next afternoon!) ... Another part of me feels like, I want to hang out with my hubby already! (not that we don't have the rest of our lives to do that ...)
What are you doing? Are you planning to have an "after party" or hang out with guests after the reception time is over?
I reaaaaally want to have some sort of an after-party but it will just depend on whether or not we can find a good place close by to do it and if I can talk FI into it, lol
Nah... we're going to go enjoy being married. And sleep! We're only having a 5 month engagement so it'll be whirlwind!
We didn't have a lot of younger people at our wedding but honestly, we were pretty worn out and just wanted to go home after a while. I couldn't imagine staying out all night and partying after my wedding.
I'm having an afternoon reception that ends at 5pm.. after which we are going out to do all our portraits on the Vegas strip with our bridal party. Then about 10pm everyone is getting back together at a club to party till dawn!
It would be fun-but I've never heard about them until I was on here. I think it would be too much work & there's nowhere we could really go after- I mean, we could stay at the reception site, or go over to the bar, but I'm sure I'll be exhausted!
FI and I don't have sex.. so, after the reception, only one thing will be on my mind ;)
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No after party for us. Our reception is going until 12, and I know im going to be exhausted! Plus i really want to have alone time with my new husband to relax. Im actually really looking forward to our time after the reception.
I'm thinking we're going to skip the after-party but then again, we're planning on having a morning-after brunch so to me that will be the after-party.
We didn't want to, because we wanted to be together and talk about the night and stuff, but even if we had planned to, we couldn't have. We were both SO exhausted, my feet hurt, my dress was heavy, I wanted to take all of those pins out of my hair, we were starving.... I could go on and on. Kuddos to those that can stay standing that long, but there is no way we could have!
Our reception is finishing at 11pm and we are expecting to leave about 10.45. I'm anticipating that I will be absolutely exhausted and ready to just be with my new husband. I'm sure other people will continue the party back in their hotel rooms, which is great - it can feel like an anticlimax to just go home after a wedding. I'll see everyone at breakfast the next day!
We probably will go upstairs and b ask in our newlywed-ness for a little while then head back downstairs for a little nightcap with the guests!
FI already put in his 2 cents with regards to this....he wants us to be alone that night and I couldn't agree more. We head off to Canada the next day for a mini honeymoon but that night we are looking forward to room service (every bride I know has said that she was starving after the reception), talking about the wedding, and of course having some much needed alone time together.
We didn't but we did end up extending the reception an hour until 1am. We were exhausted at the end and it was nice to have some time to be alone and rehash our favorite parts of the day.
Our wedding will go on for quite a while I'd bet..but not all night. No need for us to have a separate after party.
Nope we didn't go, but there was one in his brother's cabin. We did do a day after brunch at my parents house. We wanted to enjoy our really cool B&B.
No, I don't think so! It's going to be a Sunday, so most of our guests will have work to get to the next days. Besides, at that point I'll have been away from R for most of the weekend. I'd really just like to enjoy time together.
We had an after party at the hotel bar and it was awesome. But our reception (and even the after party) ended well before yours does at midnight.
We're playing it by ear but I have a feeling that we'll be dead tired... and if we're not, I bet we have a few other things on our mind ;) I think the after party is a great idea but I think its not something that you have to do.
Our reception goes until 11pm. My FI has joked about an after party til dawn afterwards...but I know us both and I am fairly certain we'll both be dead on our feet long before our reception is over. There is no way we'll make it to an after party! We are inviting everyone to brunch with us the next morning however (we're not paying and its not required) because we want to see our people! I have friends flying in who I see once every few years...maybe. I want to spend as much time with them as I can before everything is said and done!
@Nlmiele-that's exactly what we are thinking. We are hightailing it out of the reception by 10pm, changing clothes, & driving as fast as we can to a city with an airport and the hotel.
Our reception ends at 11pm. We are aged 29 and 38. We are not having an after party. 11pm is late enough. I don't want to be up until 2am. I'm sure we'll be exhausted. I think that 11pm is late enough. Your reception until midnight should be plenty late.
I voted other because none of the options listed fit. The weddings we have attended have not had after parties of any kind since everyone stays and enjoys themselves the entire time at the same location and the guests attending have mentioned having so much fun that they don't want to pack up and leave to go anywhere, even a different location. That's not to say that the bride and groom don't get to spend time together afterward because they obviously do. One of the requirements that we have in looking for a venue is somewhere that allows longer than the standard 4 hrs (including cocktail hour) since that is just not enough time for all the things involved: dinner, dancing, mingling, etc. Interestingly, I was surprised to find as many options available as there are, since so many people say they can't find anything longer than 4 hrs anywhere. Since it's one of the rare few times that you will have everyone near and dear to you in the same place, it only makes sense to have the reception last as long as possible. But I can't stomach the idea of paying extra on top of that to rent out an additional location and the food/drink there as well as it doesn't sit right with either of us to allow anyone to pay their own way for refreshments at a party we are hosting.
We are having an after party but not because we want to party all night, but because there won't be any partying really at our reception. We are getting married in the morning and having a laidback brunch reception with no drinking or dancing. Our after party will have dancing music and alcohol so we can celebrate with our friends in an adult fashion but it we will probably check out at 11pm or so.
As much as I would like to hang out with everyone afterwards, I know we are going to be exhausted and we have a great honeymoon suite that we will hopefully have enough energy to break in... nope, no guests are invited to our afterparty. We will try to make it back to the guests' hotel to meet everyone for a late brunch the next day since we don't leave for the airport until late the next evening.
we are going to have the wedding, a light reception, and then a dinner party for family and close friends, and then we will be leaving to our hotel... and flying away the next morning to our new home (new for me) 3000 miles away. So it will be a "goodbye family" dinner. There will probably be some sad goodbye tears when leaving.
AND we are in a LDR right now... we are going to have seen each other a total of 2 weeks in the eleven months up to the wedding... and we have nevah had sexy time, we will be pretty stoked to say the least to get out of there eventually. :) BUT, we are going to have a little break in between the wedding reception and the dinner party, so that time should be fun toooo.. ;)
We knew our friends would just be after-partying at the hotel, and we had planned to join them, but by the time we got back and unloaded the presents into the room, I was so exhausted I barely had enough energy to change out of my wedding dress.
I'm so on the fence. Our ceremony will begin at 1 and the reception will end at 11pm so I'm anticipating a long day. However, FI's friends and family anticipate an after party until the wee hours of the morning as is the standard for German weddings. My side is of the American, wedding ends, maybe a few people go out on a whim. Needless to say it's more important to FI than I. We looked at a B&B which would actually be a great place for both an after party and morning after breakfast but have not decided if we are going to recommend it for a couple of reasons, maybe it is our best optin since all the bars in the area close at 1.
We're gonna hit up the hotel bar after the reception with the younger crowd. I'm palnning on not drinking that much at the actual wedding so I don't get too drunk and turn into "that" bride... so by the time we get back to the hotel I'm gonna want to get my drink on for a little while.
we'll play it by ear! Probably for at least a little while, but not too long (i know I'll be exhausted!)
We don't need an afterparty, because our reception doesn't have an end time. It's a barn/lodge type place that we get for the whole weekend, so we can party 'til Sunday if we want! 
Ours went until midnight, it could have gone longer since it was at IL house but the wedding was at 2 pm and people were starting to look tired. We were also starting to become tired. Honestly it was nice just to go back to the hotel and relax and get a good nights sleep. I think it depends on how long the reception is but we saw most people at the rehearsal dinner the night before and then had a 9 hour reception so we were ready just to relax.
Our reception ended at 12, and we would have gone out with our friends afterwards but had a flight to catch at 10:30 in the morning! So we called it a night. I do kind of wish we had gone out, since many of our friends now live out of town, it would have been nice to keep partying with everybody. But c'est la vie.
I don't want an after-party---I'll be so pooped! But like others have mentioned, I'd love a morning-after brunch with anyone who's still around. That'd be our really tame after-party!
I think we'll be playing it by ear that night. We don't have a lot of out-of-towners, but some of FI's friends are definately getting a hotel room and like to party until 3AM or later. Some nights, I'm good with it. Other nights, I cash out at 11. Our ceremony is at 1, with a reception from 5-12. That's a lot of partying as it is. We're not as young as we used to be. We'll probably just go have our wedding night fun with each other and pass out.
When I first heard about brides planning after parties I thought it was CRAZAY! We waited and were going to be ready to get to our hotel room.
At our wedding, we were totalled beat at midnight when the party ended and glad to get going, but I could totally understand then how people want to spend every last moment celebrating with friends. We haven't seen many of our friends and family since our wedding, and it was SO wonderufl to have them all together celebrating with you.
I'm not a partier. Staying at most weddings until they end is already something I never have the energy to do, and I imagine my own will be a bit more work for me. ;) When the reception is over, I don't want to be around anyone but my husband afterwards!
So I voted other because our reception is going to midnight...I can't think of anyone who will actually still be up and going to party! Maybe I'm just too old (30 when married) but after a long day, midnight is IT!
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