40 years ago, most weddings were church weddings (I think), and churches can be quite large venues (the parish church I used to go to would hold 200-300 people), so it was far easier to invite lots of people to the ceremony, and only 30-40 people to the reception in a scout hut somewhere. Now registry offices tend to be quite small, so the inverse is true.
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Date: 2008-12-02 10:43 am (UTC)