{"id":672,"date":"2012-06-20T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T10:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:45:34","slug":"wedding-after-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wedding-after-party\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Wedding Trend: The After Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_673\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wedding-After-Party.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-673\" title=\"Wedding After Party\" src=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wedding-After-Party-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding After Party\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wedding-After-Party-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wedding-After-Party-575x384.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wedding-After-Party.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding After Party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the top <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/summer-wedding\">wedding trends<\/a><\/strong> is continuing the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/premierewebseo\/weddings-and-special-events\/\">wedding<\/a><\/strong> celebration even after the reception is done, by planning a fun and festive <strong>after-party. <\/strong>In the past, the bride, groom and their friends would simply go to the hotel bar to keep the party going, and now there are new <strong>party plans<\/strong> that our New Jersey and New York City <strong>wedding<\/strong> couples are making to turn their <strong>after-party <\/strong>into unforgettable celebrations. Here are some <strong>after-party plans<\/strong> to inspire you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrange for the hotel shuttle to take you and your friends to your favorite nearby nightclub or bar, then return everyone to the hotel safe and sound.<\/li>\n<li>Invite your closest friends to your hotel suite for a small-group celebration.<\/li>\n<li>Invite guests to join you in an outing to a great local <strong>New Jersey<\/strong><strong> jazz club <\/strong>or other specialty spot.<\/li>\n<li>Parents are inviting <em>their <\/em>friends and close relatives back to their homes or hotel suites for a <strong>champagne and dessert party.<!--more--><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Go back to the hotel for an evening swim party or hot-tubbing, if your hotel\u2019s pool hours allow.<\/li>\n<li>Go to a local <strong>New Jersey<\/strong><strong> sports bar<\/strong> for a relaxed environment, and to catch the games on television.<\/li>\n<li>Invite guest back to your home for a <strong>cocktail party, <\/strong>providing catered snacks or dessert trays. While there, friends can display the video and photos they shot during the wedding day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><em>Menu for the After-Party<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Guests will have enjoyed <strong>fine dining <\/strong>and wonderful <strong>wedding cake and desserts<\/strong> at your reception, but in the after-hours, they\u2019ll welcome additional crowd-pleasing snacks and desserts. You might choose to order in \u2013 and out-of-town guests especially enjoy eating our excellent <strong>New <\/strong><strong>Jersey<\/strong><strong> pizza <\/strong>\u2013 or you\u2019ll supply easy-serve sandwich and appetizer platters that keep your workload low. We\u2019ve had plenty of <strong>New Jersey<\/strong><strong> wedding couples<\/strong> take inspiration from our <strong>wedding menus<\/strong>, and bring their small circle of VIP guests to our <strong>fine restaurants<\/strong> for a late-night dinner or desserts. Especially when an afternoon <strong>wedding reception<\/strong> ends at 6pm, wedding hosts like to plan an indulgent <strong>romantic dining<\/strong> experience for their closest friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebrity weddings<\/strong> often feature lavish <strong>after-parties<em>, <\/em><\/strong>many with new <strong>deejays<\/strong> and a new party room decorated with <strong>trendy wedding couples<\/strong> and <strong>wedding d\u00e9cor, <\/strong>and now more of our local <strong>wedding<\/strong> couples are doing the same. They\u2019re choosing new <strong>wedding themes, wedding menus, dessert menus, lighting<em>, <\/em><\/strong>getting <strong>photo booths<em> <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and more to make this <strong>after-party <\/strong>a special experience for their most important guests\u2026.and the <strong>after-party<\/strong> gives the bride and groom relaxed time to celebrate with friends who\u2019ve flown in for the wedding. On any <strong>wedding budget,<\/strong> an <strong>after-party<em> <\/em><\/strong>makes a wedding celebration even more special.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Photo credit: \u00a92012\u00a0Berit\u00a0Bizjak, Images by\u00a0Berit, Inc.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top wedding trends is continuing the wedding celebration even after the reception is done, by planning a fun and festive after-party. In the past, the bride, groom and their friends would simply go to the hotel bar to keep the party going, and now there are new party plans that our New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,81,132,76,162,37,123],"tags":[168,481,103,112,491],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-party-planning","category-reception-planning","category-wedding-cocktail-party","category-wedding-dinner-party","category-wedding-etiquette","category-wedding-ideas","category-wedding-menu","tag-after-parties","tag-party-planning","tag-perfect-wedding","tag-wedding-parties","tag-wedding-receptions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}