Hello! New to this website, this is my first post!
Just wondering what others think of the idea of not having a proper wedding breakfast at all. Our wedding is entirely an evening event, with the ceremony starting at 17.45. The suggested timeline we were given by our venue suggested that our reception would start around 21.00 in order to give time for a wedding breakfast in between. This seems far too late for us as we will have people travelling up to an hour just for the reception. With that in mind we have had the idea of taking our wedding party for a meal in a nearby restaurant before the ceremony actually starts, and then cutting out the after ceremony food altogether. We will still have cake in that time, and would possibly still put out a tiny buffet of fruit/cookies/snacks to go along with the cake. This way we could invite our reception guests to be there for about 19.30.
I know its not really traditional at all, but to be honest we are not traditional people at all! Just wondering what others think of the idea and whether you think it would work, doing it a bit backwards! Just seems a bit of a waste to have nothing to do for most of the day, and then rush through a ceremony, breakfast and reception all in the space of 6 hours, and have it be so late at night for half the guests.
Thanks for reading!
