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The reception or the series of receptions organised to celebrate the marriage were no more important than those held at other key moments of the traditional way of life. There are even accounts that indicate that the funeral feasts of a member of the household could be more excessive, depending on the era, both in terms of abundance and the number of guests those organised to celebrate a wedding<ref>"The Funeral Wake. Entierro-bazkaria" in ''Ritos Funerarios en Vasconia''. Ethnographic Atlas. Bilbao: 1995, pp. 533-548 and "Funeral Feast. Enterramenduko bazkaria" in ''La Alimentación Doméstica en Vasconia''. Ethnographic Atlas. Bilbao: 1990, pp. 479-480.</ref>.<sup>.</sup>
It should also be remembered that other changes of status of any of the family members would be celebrated on the same basis as for weddings. That was the case of the priesthood banquets for priests after they said their first mass or nuns who celebrated taking the habit and entering the order. On those occasions, the family organised the event using the same resources and means as for the children who changed their civil status from single to married.
As can be deduced from the data gathered in our surveys, only young people attended the wedding reception, except when older people got married. It was said that weddings led to new weddings. In the places where the parents of the bride and groom did not attend either the wedding or the celebration on the day, they were invited on the Sunday following the marriage.
In any case, the number of guests at the celebrations was usually very small in general. The people survey in several location explained that only the parents, the odd cousin and some uncles and aunts attended the weddings in the early 20<sup>th</sup> 20th century. Receptions with no more than twenty or thirty guests would be considered large at that time. However, a large number of neighbours were invited to the wedding celebrations in some places in the past.
Apart from the feast offered to the guests, the families often took into account any close relatives that could not attend the celebrations for whatever reasons.
