How to hold a banquet for a long-distance wedding?

1. Hold a banquet

If the newlyweds live in different places but only want to hold a wedding banquet due to budget and other considerations, most people will hold the banquet at the groom’s house. Sir, if the distance between the two families is within a controllable driving range, you can consider picking up the bride from your natal family. If the distance is particularly far, it is recommended that the wedding ceremony be held at a hotel.

When there is only one wedding banquet, the bride’s family usually only needs to invite her parents, close relatives and close friends to attend.

2. Host two banquets

Most newlyweds from other places choose to host two wedding banquets, namely the main wedding banquet hosted by the groom’s family + the return banquet hosted by the bride’s family (Guining Banquet) ), the main wedding banquet includes all the wedding ceremony, while the return banquet is slightly simpler. The bride can also wear a wedding dress, but rituals such as exchanging rings and taking oaths are basically unnecessary.

The advantage of having two banquets is that the relatives and friends of both families of the newlyweds can be fully taken into account, so that no invitations are missed and the parents' family does not have to travel hard.

3. Hold three banquets

If you have enough budget, you can hold a small party in the city where you work after the main wedding banquet and the return banquet, and invite your colleagues. As well as friends who were unable to attend the first two banquets, this banquet was smaller in scale and was mainly a gathering between friends of the same age.

The order of banquets for long-distance weddings

According to the three ways of holding wedding banquets compiled above, except that the party for colleagues and friends must be held at the end, the main wedding banquet and the return banquet In fact, the order is not uniform according to local customs.

In most areas, the main wedding banquet may be held at the groom's home first, and then the return banquet/guining banquet will be held at the natal home. However, the editor has learned that in some places, there is a "marry first, marry later" "What it means is that only after the girl's family has organized a banquet to marry their daughter, can the boy's family have a wife to marry.