10 things you don't want to forget about your reception - Have you invited your officiant?

Yes the Rabbi that will be marrying us us a close family friend

I will be offering him the choice if her like to stay. Since he knows many of the other guests he may.

Depends if our officiant will be a family pastor.. if so then for sure. But... we'd have to think about that further.

We did not, the though didn't even occur to us, the ceremony and reception were at different locations.

Our friend will most likely be the officiant so he and his plus one will definitely be invited!

No, I didn't even know this was a tradition, but we will not be doing this.

No we won't be upholding this tradition

I think i would let my officiant know that the option to stay is available but i will not be sending her a formal invitation.

Nope. We're having our ceremony at a different location, therefore no need to invite her to the reception.

No we didn’t...

We offered for our officiant to stay and have dinner with us but she did decline. She said that she might stay for a little bit of the cocktail hour but that is it. We also invited her husband!

Our officiant was great and did say he would stay since he has been invited to receptions. However, he had to do another wedding right after ours. He didn't stay for the after party.

We did! I'm not sure if he will but he did thank for the offer! Will have to check in with that!

We're having a friend as our officiant, so I'm definitely inviting her and her husband to the reception!

Haven't thought about it, I will ask her!

We'll invite him/her but we haven't even officially picked one yet.

We did invite him, but he will be doing another wedding shortly after ours.

Thank you for the reminder

We just gave him the invitation last week

No, it’s a government marriage commissioner. We’ll barely meet her and then she’ll be leaving so

No ... she has another wedding after ours

We'll invite, but she usually performs multiple weddings so unlikely that she'll come but we figure we'd throw the invite out!

No, I believe she actually has another wedding not too long after ours so she won't be able to. We will be sending her a thank you basket or something because she's been super helpful and informative during this entire planning process.

He is actually a friend of my families so we did invite him, his wife, and his daughter as a thank you for performing our ceremony.

We didn't invite our officiant. We went through a service (All Season Weddings) and found our offician through there. If we knew her better then we would have invited her

We did. He was also a friend of my husbands so we wanted him there!

This picture is from where I'm getting married!!

Also, no. I did not know you had to invite your officiant? I think she will just be leaving after the ceremony.

Is this something you are supposed to do?

I thought it was expected only if it's the officiant from your church?

We are having a civil ceremony. Plus she said she normally does multiple weddings in a day.

I don’t think so. Depends on my FH and what he thinks as he is more familiar on what to do.

I do not believe we will be. Its a fairly short ceremony, and I am not sure he would attend.

We haven't sent out the invites yet, but probably not.

We haven't sent out our invites yet, but we will invite our officiant just out of courtesy. I doubt he will attend though.