Absolutely. We love kids and want everybody who has them to not be afraid to join us in our celebration.
Long story short, finances. When we starting looking at wedding venues we were shocked by the cost of them. We want to finance our own wedding as much as possible and the most cost effective venue we found was more than the purchase price of Sarah's car. So we split up the ceremony and reception and made some difficult decisions and found this was the way that worked for us.
As much as we would love for everybody to be there, unfortunately, it is not possible to have everybody at the ceremony. Everybody we have invited to the reception holds a very special place in our hearts and we can't wait to celebrate with you!
We would greatly prefer to just have contributions. Sarah is a very picky person and doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings if she doesn't like the gift you present. Seriously, if you can't contribute anything to the honeymoon fund, your presence is plenty of a present.