[13] Writing on behalf of AllMusic, Marcy Donelson said: "Tomberlin's brittle vocals are accompanied mainly by acoustic guitar with touches of keyboards and strings on an album that features performances by only the songwriter and producer Owen Pallett.

explains how Tomberlin navigates her new release "with little more than guitar, keyboards and a reverberating soft power that meticulously frees herself from the burden of a defined path.

"[5] At The Line of Best Fit, Craig Howieson explains: "Guarded and beautifully measured, At Weddings has an absorbingly intimate quality.

Lonesome reverberating guitars ricochet off the sparse percussion while tempered piano lines chime and assuage.

Whether it be the swathes of white noise on "Tornado", the yowl of feedback on "Self-Help" or the rudimental piano line on sublime opener "Any Other Way" each embellishment hangs as if it were a carefully placed decoration.