I went to an awesome wedding this weekend and I would like to talk about it. So I'm gonna.
To be honest, I wasn't looking forward to this wedding. Oh, I like the couple fine and dandy but they decide to have a breakfast wedding. Ceremony starting at 9am. On a Saturday. Who the fuck does that? That's just mean. I had to get up at 7:30! I am not a morning person. But they're FI's friends and she's put up with stupid shit for mine so fine, I'll go and be nice.
The wedding was fantastic. First there was food as soon as we walked in. And coffee. They had a little coffee cart set up where I could get a fancy pants coffee thing!!! FI tells me they had juice, milk, tea, hot cocoa, and soda for non-coffee drinkers as well, I'm just going to have to believe here. They had all the tables set up and we all took our seats (assigned tables), there were trays of mini-pastries in the middle of the table. For us to eat. In fact we were encouraged to snack during the ceremony! So I had fancy coffee and food, I no longer hated them for having a morning wedding.
The ceremony was very nice, very simple, and as soon as they finished there was alcohol brought out! Mimosa bar was set up, Irish coffees were made, sangeria, and then a champagne punch. And more food! It was about a 30 minute cocktail hour while they did a few pictures, then they came back and breakfast was served. French toast, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes, oatmeal, I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff. There was even music and dancing. They served donuts and fruit for desert instead of a traditional cake. It was actually cute they broke apart a donuts and fed it to each other instead of the cake cutting.
So much fun, low key and simple, but a really great time, and everything was wrapped up by about 11:30, which was actually kind of nice. Weddings are great and all but it was nice to have one that didn't seem to eat up my whole day. And it was a cool wedding, different and fun.
See people who say they must have gaps because *gasp* one mustn't have an early reception, it is perfectly possible to have fun properly hosted earlier reception.