Wedding After-Party

[SarahLovesJS]

I''ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We''re thinking about having a dry reception since our wedding will be majority family members (that don''t drink) and only a few friends (that would/might drink). I am also considering just doing a toast with a signature cocktail. So I was thinking maybe we could have an after-party/get-together somewhere. Not to mention the wedding is ending at about 10 pm which is pretty dang early. So I think a bunch of places will be open!

Here''s the questions:

If you''re having one, where do you do it? It wouldn''t be that many people..like 10-15 max..so um..where do we go? I''m not exactly the partying sort..but I think it would be nice to have a few drinks with some friends somewhere with some music and maybe some dancing oh and more food, yum.

I really don''t want to go a nightclub. Do we have any other options?

How much would this probably cost rough average?

Would a restaurant be appropriate if we nix the dancing?

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[Amandine]

FI was in a wedding over Memorial Day weekend that had an inpromptu after-party. The majority of the wedding party and like-minded guests ended up at a bar across from the hotel, and it was perfect. The bar had a room downstairs with pool tables and darts, and until we got there it was empty. So we took over this room, and every once in a while someone would head upstairs to the bar and order a round to bring back down. We had a lot of fun, and it got FI and I thinking that we would like to do something similiar. We loved how low-key it all was.

I know this doesn''t answer your questions, but thought you wouldn''t mind hearing about one that I had been to!

 

[palomablancabride]

We have an early reception that will be over by 6:30 and we plan to head somewhere for an after party. FI wants dancing so we will probably end up at some redneck bar near the hotel, though there are nicer restaurant bars just without dancing. I think a restaurant bar would do for your after-party and I don''t think any one would expect you two to foot the bill for drinks.

 

[waterlilly]

we are having an after party at our home...inviting everyone (plus all the people we couldn''t invite to the reception,)my brother in law''s band is going to play - and we are partying into the night! The reception will be elegant and classy (for the family to enjoy) and the after party is where we can celebrate at ease with friends in our back yard!

 

[SarahLovesJS]

Just wanted to say thanks everyone! Hmmm we live about an hour away from where the wedding is so that won''t work, and I don''t think we crash my parent''s house.

So, looks like a hotel bar and a restaurant are our options! Sounds good to me!

 

[waterlilly]

we live an hour away too, but our home is closer to where most of our guests live...i like the idea of having it at our home because we don''t have to drive anywhere afterwards!

 

[SarahLovesJS]

Sounds fun!

Our apt couldn''t hold more than about four people comfortably unfortunately, haha.

 

[bensbride]

I''m not sure if this works for you, but some friends of ours hired a hummer limo thing for after the reception. I think it only fit maybe 10 people, though. They drove around and drank and it dropped them off at home so that they were safe.

 

[violet02]

Our reception ends at 9pm but its private residence with only our friends staying there. We were thinking of bringing down the music and having the after party on the grounds or in the tent. We''ll have all the booze still and the tent will be up until Monday. Carmel isn''t that swinging of a town anyways and we''d have to drive into town with people drinking. We cold do a more chill club feel for the later evening.

Not sure if that sounds fun or not though.