I'm *so* happy we chose a small ceremony. This is stressful enough, I can't imagine a bigger one. My fiance wants to have an at-home reception (we're getting married in Charleston, SC) for friends, but we have yet to plan anything. I'm going to throw out the idea of "Anaphora and Fiance will be at X bar at X time and would love to see all of their friends in celebration of their new marriage." We don't have money for a reception really and I don't expect any gifts since we're not inviting anyone to the ceremony. If you got an invite like this, would you think it's trashy? It's really informal, I know, we just want to hangout with everyone afterwards without going broke.