I enjoy breakfast buffets

[merryweather20]

Sound like fun! Do they need any extra breakfast minded friends

 

[Principessa1284]

Not my first choice either, but hey - Free food! Works for me!!! (Well, not free, but you know what I mean). IMHO, it's their wedding, so they can do whatever they want! Strange, yes.. but not my decision and I don't have to go to the reception if I don't like it.

+1 if there are mimosas.. they're the best thing about breakfast/brunch buffets!

 

[tink1969]

It's fine that they can't afford an expensive meal but another cheap idea could have been burgers/hot dogs and some salads. That would have been fine with me.
I like the idea of having an early am wedding and then having a brunch where pancakes and eggs are more appropriate.
Weddings have become so extravagant and expensive!

 

[oscarkitty1]

I have a coworker who to this day talks about how he and his wife wanted to have breakfast foods (which they both love) served at their wedding five years ago - but her mother refused to let them. They both wish they would have insisted on building a menu that reflected them vs. keeping up appearances of what a formal dinner is supposed to be.

What I think is sad about that is that it was their wedding, they will look back at the memories for the rest of their lives. Unlike their guest who will either have distant memories of the wedding (certainly not the detail of what was served to eat) or not even remember attending at all.

So I say the wedding couple should make the trade-offs necessary to create their ideal event (cheaper food that allows for alcohol to be served), and attendees should happily eat the breakfast food in support of the creative couple (or for those that don't like breakfast - skip the dinner and eat before or after the event).

I'm not much of a breakfast person, but if it were my friend or family member I'd much rather eat a pancake at their reception than know I'm eating steak that they had to finance to serve to me.

 

[Styx Fan]

I'm curious about what other corners they are cutting. Are the flowers being kept simple and seasonal? Is the brides gown a couture creation or off the rack? Honeymoon on a budget?

I say this because I have seen so many weddings recently where all the corners cut have to do with the guests, but the costs are still sky high for things that tickle the fancy of the couple. I have no problem with keeping costs down for a wedding. Crazy to spend the cost of a house down payment on a wedding. But when you invite people, they are your guests and their comfort should be taken into account also. As a guest, I have expenses that come with attending your event. And the couple probably expects a nice gift as well. Will they be happy with a gift on the level of a pancake breakfast as opposed to on the level of a dinner? The open bar things doesn't impress me as everyone doesn't drink, but everyone usually eats!

 

[Conservative Hippie]

The open bar things doesn't impress me as everyone doesn't drink, but everyone usually eats!

I don't drink at all, however I have noticed that the quickest way to be labeled tacky and cheap is to have anything less than an open bar.

 

[crazelion]

But maybe not so much for the meal at a late afternoon / evening wedding.

We received an invite for a wedding. The wedding is at 4PM with the reception to immediately follow. I found out today that the couple is having an open bar (beer, whiskey, vodka and rum) with the meal being pancakes, hash browns, scrambled eggs and a meat, most likely bacon or sausage.

Really, I do like breakfast buffets especially the ones at Disney. I'll even admit to making pancakes for supper once in a while at home. But dressing up, formal attire, for pancakes? That's a new one for me.

WOW what great idea. That is my kind wedding.

Always said I was getting marry and blue jeans and t-shirt and have a cookout as for my reception.

 

[Minnie]

Very well unusual...... 4pm wedding with a breakfast dinner Would have made more sense to do an earlier wedding (normally less expensive) with brunch food and serve mimosas for the alcohol.

I love wedding shows but I often think weddings have gone to a ridiculous level. This though hmmmmm

 

[scrapquitler]

Not my first choice either, but hey - Free food! Works for me!!! (Well, not free, but you know what I mean). IMHO, it's their wedding, so they can do whatever they want! Strange, yes.. but not my decision and I don't have to go to the reception if I don't like it.

+1 if there are mimosas.. they're the best thing about breakfast/brunch buffets!

Excellent points! And YAY on the mimosas!

 

[Malibustyle23]

I'm curious about what other corners they are cutting. Are the flowers being kept simple and seasonal? Is the brides gown a couture creation or off the rack? Honeymoon on a budget?

I say this because I have seen so many weddings recently where all the corners cut have to do with the guests, but the costs are still sky high for things that tickle the fancy of the couple. I have no problem with keeping costs down for a wedding. Crazy to spend the cost of a house down payment on a wedding. But when you invite people, they are your guests and their comfort should be taken into account also. As a guest, I have expenses that come with attending your event. And the couple probably expects a nice gift as well. Will they be happy with a gift on the level of a pancake breakfast as opposed to on the level of a dinner? The open bar things doesn't impress me as everyone doesn't drink, but everyone usually eats!

I personally disagree with this entire train of thought. I personally go to a wedding to share in a couples special moment of sharing their love and commitment with their friends and family not to see if they have spent enough on me as a guest. Tacky or classy I am attending to support my friend not to match my gift budget to their guest budget. In my mind a wedding is about the groom and bride not about the guests. Sorry as s bride I would not downgrade my dress choices or pick my third place venue choices just so my guests can eat a surf and turf dinner that night. As a bride I will have those memories, pictures, possibly even the dress for my lifetime. As a guest you will only have that meal 48 hours tops!

Although I have never heard of it I don't mind it one bit. I don't think certain foods such have dress codes and I also don't think that newlyweds should go into debt to host an "acceptable" meal for their guests. But this is coming from someone that had a *gasp* CASH bar at her wedding, at a waterfront evening venue nonetheless.

 

[Planogirl]

I would love this! Yes it's different and off-the-wall but maybe they'll start a new trend.

Yum, pancakes and bloody marys.

 

[punkin]

I would love this! Yes it's different and off-the-wall but maybe they'll start a new trend.

Yum, pancakes and bloody marys.

and mimosas!!!!

I love love love this idea. I am sick and tired of rubbery chicken and overcooked prime rib. Wedding foods just suck and a breakfast buffet, particularly with a nice omelet station sound yummy!

 

[msjprincess]

If they couldn't afford a typical dinner and wanted to do a breakfast menu, they should have done a brunch.

If they had done a brunch, as a guest I would have thought "isn't this nice?" As it is, if I were a guest, my thoughts would be "seriously??"

And formal?? Really??

ITA

Get married earlier in the day and have mimosas and bloody marys

 

[Scurvy]

I love the idea of breakfast or brunch receptions, especially the more casual ones. I would think it was a great idea if they were doing it earlier in the day. Doing it so late in the day just strikes me as weird, especially since the only reason they are doing it is to save money. I agree with others that they could have saved quite a bit more money if they had gone with Bloody Marys and Mimosas rather than an open bar, and it would have paired much better with the meal.

 

[tlbwriter]

Breakfast food and beer/wine sounds horrid. Breakfast food and mimosas/peach bellinis/bloody marys sounds fantastic. Now, I would still be a tad bit annoyed, because it's difficult for me to eat pancakes without dripping syrup on my outfit. But that's my cross to bear.

 

[anniemae]

I agree with the folks that say they should have done this early in the day, woud have been more appropriate. When I think of an evening wedding, I think chicken or beef. It's not horrible, just strange to eat pancakes at an evening reception.

 

[Jennasis]

How cool is that wedding!


My mother nearly had a cow when DH and I told her that we were having our wedding on our horse farm, with no band or DJ or dance floor, and that we were having the thing catered by our local favorite barbeque joint (pulled pork bbq, baked beans, macaroni salad, regular salad, rolls). She started to have heart failure. She insisted on us having beer and wine, though we had planned on just serving sweet tea and soda (we filled two huge CLEAN aluminum water troughs with ice and water and dumped the cans of soda and bottles of sweet tea in there). So mom paid for the beer and wine.

In lieu of a band or DJ, we made a mix CD of our favorite music and set up a stage made of hay bales for my dad and my uncles to bring their guitars and drums and just jam.

We splurged on a wedding cake from a local much sought after bakery. I insisted on everyone dressing however they wanted to (it was 11am in AUgust in NC and hot as Hades). Shorts, tees, dressy dress, swimsuit...I don't care. I wanted the event to feel like a family reunion/picnic.

Best wedding ever.

 

[Robinrs]

I'm for the breakfast, don't care for the open bar since I don't drink... LOVE breakfast for dinner.

 

[Malibustyle23]

Breakfast food and beer/wine sounds horrid.

You should come visit my area. Denny's, Ihop and diners are actually all the rage around here everyweekend around 2 am. Bars close up and all the alcohol filled patrons do a breakfast run. Pancakes and beer seem to mix better in MD?

 

[sbsteel]

Pancakes = alcohol absorbtion material

That was my first thought, too. LOL

I'm also having flashbacks to Kegs and Eggs in college.

In all seriousness, I'd be happy to be served breakfast for dinner. I'd much rather have bacon and eggs that hot dogs and baked beans (I'd be guaranteed to spill with that meal!). I've had enough overcooked tilapia and dried out rosemary chicken at weddings that breakfast sounds great!