This is my personal opinion. You can hold a reception for your family and friends; however, I don't feel it would be right to advertise your registry. If someone inquires for it, or brings a gift, that's nice but don't advertise, ask or expect one.It should be held within 2 weeks after the wedding if possible.
Months seems extreme unless someone is deployed immediately or something like that. It is appropriate to send out wedding announcements, if you prefer to just do something more low key.
If a small private wedding is what you want, everyone close to you has to understand your needs and desires. Without hurting their feelings, there are a few ways to have everyone meet in the middle (depending on what type of family you have). Have a small private affair to remember!
Wedding time is normally considered a time of grand celebration, expenses and people. It is undeniably a couple’s personal decision either to have a grand celebration or a simple private affair with family and close friends. Your bonding, rituals and feelings are going to be the same with or without countless people.
It is certainly a very wise decision to have a small scale wedding and not many would dare to think on this line. Here are few ideas to rally round while you arrange a small private wedding. 1Tell your family and friends you want a small, private wedding and you won't change your mind.
It's your wedding and your decision. Stand politely firm in your decision to have a small private wedding and make it clear that you will not change your plans no matter how much pressure others put on you. 2Allow family members and friends to suggest a guest list and assure them that those who do not receive an invitation to the wedding will be invited to an informal reception at a later date.
When writing the guest list, use lined paper to write numbers on so you'll know how many guests to invite.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.