wedding breakfasts???

webitha

sorry but this is going to be a very stooopid question.
why is it called a wedding breakfast? what do you call it when you get marries at a2/3 pm?a wedding lunch????
seriously, i would love to know the answer to this

rachfriar78

Apparently it is called breakfast as it is the first meal of the marriage. puzzles me too lol

webitha

oh right thanks it just sounds weird iyswim, getting married at 3pm then having breakfast lol

*Louise*

I just refer to it as the 'Wedding Meal'

Mme.Hibou

A wedding breakfast is a dinner given to the bride, bridegroom and guests at the wedding reception that follows a wedding in England.
While not normally a morning meal, the name apparently arises from the tradition that the bride and bridegroom would have been fasting before the wedding, and so the reception would be the time when they would break their fast. Another theory on the origin of the term is that the wedding breakfast is the first meal of a couple's married life, just as breakfast is the first meal of the day.

Taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_breakfast

webitha

and another thing, (as you can tell things are being thought about lol)
do you have to have a wedding breakfast/ even with a late wedding? sorry but ive never been to a wedding before shocking i know, and OH is from a very large family cost is being thought about here, eg his mum is one of 7 and they all got kids/grandkids

PasturesNew

Lydia82 wrote: »

... arises from the tradition that the bride and bridegroom would have been fasting before the wedding

I've not heard of that before, any fasting going on.

crystal_fire

glad someone asked!!! it really threw me when the venues brochure arrived and it said wedding breakfast!!