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Skipping the Wedding Breakfast?

RomanticGreenDiamonds34832, 20 January, 2020 at 11:44 Posted on Planning 0

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Hi all, first time posting and new member so apologies if this has been discussed before. We've recently go engaged and are now throwing ourselves into the planning phase.

We've discussed options and like the idea of a later ceremony, skipping the Wedding Breakfast and then having more informal food options for all the guests later on. Has anyone else had experience of doing this?

I've mentioned this to a couple (only very briefly so would possibly be better to discuss further) of potential venues but a lot of them seem to push the idea that they NEED to include a wedding breakfast in order for us to hire the place. Surely that's not the case with all venues? I understand they will be pushing this from a financial side but just wondering if anyone has any advise/experience?

First time planner and we are finding it VERY overwhelming at the moment!

Thanks in advance x

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RomanticGreenStationery27135 · 20 January, 2020 at 16:29
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We found that a lot of places which market themselves as 'wedding venues' have very set ideas of what you must have and are quite inflexible. And you end up paying for loads of stuff you don't want or need! So we ended up looking at some nice local pubs and restaurants, that do cater for weddings but don't market themselves as 'wedding venues'. We found they were much more flexible and open to our ideas, so it might be worth trying that

We've ended up booking our reception at a lovely little country inn, where they basically showed us all the rooms and their menu and said 'you can have what you want - just let us know.' We've got exactly what we want for our reception - and it's going to be about half the price of the cheapest 'wedding venue' too!

As far as what you 'need' to have, I think anything goes as long as you communicate clearly with your guests, so that they can plan ahead and know what to expect - e.g. we are having a simple lunch following our wedding and are planning to leave late afternoon, so we have mentioned this in our invites as we didn't want guests assuming they were going to be staying till midnight and booking unnecessary overnight accommodation etc.
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