Q.
I met my future husband online, and we come from different parts of the country. My family and friends can't come to a wedding in his area and his can't come to one in mine. Would it be appropriate to have two weddings, one in each hometown?
A.
It would be completely fine to have more than one wedding celebration -- though it's too bad your families can't meet, it's a sure thing that both groups will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
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lynlovesjoe
We are having our wedding in CA not to far from most of our guests. After our honeymoon we will fly to Taiwan for a second ceremony that will be very traditional just because most of his family that live there can't come to CA, especially Grandma and Grandpa. It will be nice to have polar opposite weddings, and the Chinese one will be planned by Papa, so I don't have to worry about anything, as far as I know. :) And they will get to dress us up in traditional formal wear.
Aburns80
My husband to be is Italian and so we will have the wedding in Italy first and another one later in my home country. Instead of gifts we are asking for money (though gifts are ok if people have something they'd really like to give us) and we will pay for the next wedding with that. Otherwise there is no way we could afford both.
trinityann
This is what we're doing. One side of my family and his entire family live in one state but the other side of my family (the largest one and the side that I grew up with) live across the country and can't afford to travel.