Weddings - evening invite

Georgiegirl256

Just had a thought. If people are invited to the wedding itself (the ceremony), wouldn't you automatically assume you would be invited to the wedding breakfast too? How would you let the person know that they weren't? How would you tell them? Does it usually say on the invitation? I can't remember.

jaylee3

I have been reading this thread with much amusement at how virtually EVERYbody on this thread is now calling the 'wedding reception' a 'wedding breakfast,.’ And it’s only been since someone slyly implied that if someone has not heard it called this before; it’s because it’s a ‘class thing.’ (Suggesting that people who say 'wedding breakfast' are in a ‘higher class’ than those who hadn't heard of it, and say ‘reception.’)

Right up to when that post went on suggesting that only commoners don’t say wedding breakfast, people WERE saying ‘reception’ and ‘meal.’ Nobody was even saying wedding breakfast LOL.

Fact is, ‘wedding breakfast’ is more an old fashioned-term and especially refers/referred more to people who had religious weddings, and ‘reception’ is a more modern term, more associated with non-religious weddings. It is NOTHING to do with class or intellect.

So if someone hasn't heard the term wedding ‘breakfast’ before, and they say ‘reception,’ it doesn't make them less intellectual or lower class than someone who says wedding breakfast LOL.

So to all you people on here who are saying ‘wedding breakfast’ (and who probably never called it that before this thread; ) you can go back to calling it a ‘reception’ again. That’s what most people call it. Gotta laugh at the pseudo intellectuals who try and sneer at people for not saying what they class as the ‘correct term.’

A ‘wedding breakfast,’ is NOT a common term at all. I have been to a dozen weddings in the last 8-9 years, and to the best of my recollection, they ALL said 'reception' on the invite, and not 'breakfast.'

And as I said, I am pretty sure the majority of people on here never called it that before this thread either.

Person_one

I would have thought people are using the term to differentiate between the part of the reception that takes place in the day straight after the ceremony, and the part of the reception that happens later in the evening.

Using reception for both would be a tad confusing. There's really no need to get worked up about it.

lostinrates

jaylee3 wrote: »

I have been reading this thread with much amusement at how virtually EVERYbody on this thread is now calling the 'wedding reception' a 'wedding breakfast,.’ And it’s only been since someone slyly implied that if someone has not heard it called this before; it’s because it’s a ‘class thing.’ (Suggesting that people who say 'wedding breakfast' are in a ‘higher class’ than those who hadn't heard of it, and say ‘reception.’)

Right up to when that post went on suggesting that only commoners don’t say wedding breakfast, people WERE saying ‘reception’ and ‘meal.’ Nobody was even saying wedding breakfast LOL.

Fact is, ‘wedding breakfast’ is more an old fashioned-term and especially refers/referred more to people who had religious weddings, and ‘reception’ is a more modern term, more associated with non-religious weddings. It is NOTHING to do with class or intellect.

So if someone hasn't heard the term wedding ‘breakfast’ before, and they say ‘reception,’ it doesn't make them less intellectual or lower class than someone who says wedding breakfast LOL.

So to all you people on here who are saying ‘wedding breakfast’ (and who probably never called it that before this thread; ) you can go back to calling it a ‘reception’ again. That’s what most people call it. Gotta laugh at the pseudo intellectuals who try and sneer at people for not saying what they class as the ‘correct term.’

A ‘wedding breakfast,’ is NOT a common term at all. I have been to a dozen weddings in the last 8-9 years, and to the best of my recollection, they ALL said 'reception' on the invite, and not 'breakfast.'

And as I said, I am pretty sure the majority of people on here never called it that before this thread either.

I would thank you, because personally couldn't give a dickens whether people refer to breakfast or reception, but find it impossible to thank something so rudely phrased.

Buzzybee90

jaylee3 wrote: »

I have been reading this thread with much amusement at how virtually EVERYbody on this thread is now calling the 'wedding reception' a 'wedding breakfast,.’ And it’s only been since someone slyly implied that if someone has not heard it called this before; it’s because it’s a ‘class thing.’ (Suggesting that people who say 'wedding breakfast' are in a ‘higher class’ than those who hadn't heard of it, and say ‘reception.’)

Right up to when that post went on suggesting that only commoners don’t say wedding breakfast, people WERE saying ‘reception’ and ‘meal.’ Nobody was even saying wedding breakfast LOL.

Fact is, ‘wedding breakfast’ is more an old fashioned-term and especially refers/referred more to people who had religious weddings, and ‘reception’ is a more modern term, more associated with non-religious weddings. It is NOTHING to do with class or intellect.

So if someone hasn't heard the term wedding ‘breakfast’ before, and they say ‘reception,’ it doesn't make them less intellectual or lower class than someone who says wedding breakfast LOL.

So to all you people on here who are saying ‘wedding breakfast’ (and who probably never called it that before this thread; ) you can go back to calling it a ‘reception’ again. That’s what most people call it. Gotta laugh at the pseudo intellectuals who try and sneer at people for not saying what they class as the ‘correct term.’

A ‘wedding breakfast,’ is NOT a common term at all. I have been to a dozen weddings in the last 8-9 years, and to the best of my recollection, they ALL said 'reception' on the invite, and not 'breakfast.'

And as I said, I am pretty sure the majority of people on here never called it that before this thread either.

I was calling it the breakfast to refer to the meal itself, as opposed to the whole event which I'd call the reception.

It's certainly not an unused term though. It's also not a class thing, we are all commoners (unless you're secretly the Queen..!!)

Out of interest, what do you call the meal? Just, a meal?

Georgiegirl256

jaylee3 wrote: »

I have been reading this thread with much amusement at how virtually EVERYbody on this thread is now calling the 'wedding reception' a 'wedding breakfast,.’ And it’s only been since someone slyly implied that if someone has not heard it called this before; it’s because it’s a ‘class thing.’ (Suggesting that people who say 'wedding breakfast' are in a ‘higher class’ than those who hadn't heard of it, and say ‘reception.’)

Right up to when that post went on suggesting that only commoners don’t say wedding breakfast, people WERE saying ‘reception’ and ‘meal.’ Nobody was even saying wedding breakfast LOL.

Fact is, ‘wedding breakfast’ is more an old fashioned-term and especially refers/referred more to people who had religious weddings, and ‘reception’ is a more modern term, more associated with non-religious weddings. It is NOTHING to do with class or intellect.

So if someone hasn't heard the term wedding ‘breakfast’ before, and they say ‘reception,’ it doesn't make them less intellectual or lower class than someone who says wedding breakfast LOL.

So to all you people on here who are saying ‘wedding breakfast’ (and who probably never called it that before this thread; ) you can go back to calling it a ‘reception’ again. That’s what most people call it. Gotta laugh at the pseudo intellectuals who try and sneer at people for not saying what they class as the ‘correct term.’

A ‘wedding breakfast,’ is NOT a common term at all. I have been to a dozen weddings in the last 8-9 years, and to the best of my recollection, they ALL said 'reception' on the invite, and not 'breakfast.'

And as I said, I am pretty sure the majority of people on here never called it that before this thread either.

Really?! I've always known it to be called that. It could be a regional thing, I don't know? It may 'NOT' be a common term to you, but other people obviously know it as such.

Definitely nothing to do with class either, and definitely nothing to get your panties in a twist over either.

jaylee3

Person_one wrote: »

I would have thought people are using the term to differentiate between the part of the reception that takes place in the day straight after the ceremony, and the part of the reception that happens later in the evening.

Using reception for both would be a tad confusing. There's really no need to get worked up about it.

No, it's always been ceremony, reception, (meaning the after wedding meal,) and then in the evening, the night do/evening do.

And I'm not getting worked up at all, just finding the thread highly amusing, as people are desperately worried about looking stupid or people thinking they're not middle class, so everyone suddenly decided to start saying 'breakfast' instead of reception LOL.

LOL, who says 'wedding breakfast?' :rotfl: Hardly ANYONE.

jaylee3

LOL, I rest my case.

Person_one

jaylee3 wrote: »

No, it's always been ceremony, reception, (meaning the after wedding meal,) and then in the evening, the night do/evening do.

And I'm not getting worked up at all, just finding the thread highly amusing, as people are desperately worried about looking stupid or people thinking they're not middle class, so everyone suddenly switched to saying 'breakfast' instead of reception LOL.

LOL, who says 'wedding breakfast?' :rotfl: Hardly ANYONE.

Well, some people do, its been known as that for a long time. The first time a couple 'break their fast' as husband and wife.

Its not a class thing, as far as I'm aware. Even if it were, inverted snobbery is almost as unattractive as actual snobbery.

lostinrates

Person_one wrote: »

I would have thought people are using the term to differentiate between the part of the reception that takes place in the day straight after the ceremony, and the part of the reception that happens later in the evening.

Using reception for both would be a tad confusing. There's really no need to get worked up about it.

I'm using it because its what's being used I the thread now.


I use both depending on who I'm talking to and situation. :rotfl: similarly I tend to say 'father Christmas' but don't insist on it if children talk to me about 'Santa'. Who am I to pop other people's balloons? We have friends getting married al over the show some have receptions, some have breakfasts,one had a fortnight yoga retreat and some odd words to describe the actual thing, cannot remember what now :eek:. ( didn't go to that one)