Reception Brinner

s2095876

My fiance and I love Brinner, breakfast for dinner. We have it at least once a month and make a whole big to do about it, we serve everything, crepes, pancakes, sausage, bacon, oatmal, french toast, waffles, eggs, buscuits and gravy, etc all for the two of us.

We were having trouble deciding on a menu and rolled over the idea of inviting everyone at our reception to have brinner. We are having an afternoon reception and the dinner would not begin until about 7:30PM

Is it okay to have breakfast for dinner instead of a traditional dinner?

We were thinking mini pancake appatizers with a blueberry, mini french toast, mimosas, baked apples. dinner: crepes, waffles, fresh fruit, etc

loveslug

Personally, I'd would be super excited to see breakfast at a wedding reception-especially knowing that this is something significant and special to the couple!  I think it would be perfectly fine, and a lot of fun!

PharmacyBride

Personally if I was a guest- I wouldn't love it.  I like that it is special to you- but as a guest- I wouldn't be too satisfied.

1. Breakfast foods are often sticky.  (syrup)  I would be wearing a nice dress.
2. My FI makes that kind of food every weekend morning- so that would be 2 breakfasts in one day (unless we had advance notice of the menu).
3. Some people may avoid the pancakes, bacon, etc for their fat content.  Then they are left with fruit- which may not be filling.
4. Home made breakfast food tastes amazing.  Same with restaurant breakfast food.  But when made by a hotel in mass quantities- ehh.. not so much!  (not sure who your caterer is- but consider the difference between cooked to order and mass made breakfast food)

I really think it is cute that you want to incorporate this into your wedding some how... but I am just giving my honest opinion that I would be disappointed as a guest.

LisaTyler1984

I think it is a really cute idea to incorporate a tradition you and your FI share. I am not a big breakfast person, and some people may be turned off by the idea BUT I think it would be great to incorporate it a little bit into your dinner. Maybe offer an Eggs Benedict dinner option that comes with a side of bread pudding? Or whatever you like... If you are doing stations, you can have a "Brinner"station or you can incorporate it a little bit in  your cocktail hour with brinner style hors d'oeuvres.

katieanne85

I love it! its so personal, I would love to eat crepes at a wedding!
are you going to have a regular cake? breakfast foods tend to be sweet, fruit, syrup, etc. I would not be in the mood to eat cake after breakfast. you could get creative about it tho, coffee cake, muffins, banana bread?

Lasairiona

Your menu sounds delicious. People eat breakfast for dinner all the time. If they didn't, places like Denny's and IHOP would not exist. There are many breakfast foods that are not sticky btw, so that shouldn't be an issue if people have napkins.Go for it and ignore the naysayers who won't even be at your wedding.

kaesha

Eh, not my favourite, but as long as you have a good balance of flavours (savory vs sweet), you're probably good to go. You'll inevitably have critics amongst your guests, but no wedding goes without its fair share of those. People criticize when you serve boring wedding standards (I know I can't stand bland wedding chicken), when you think outside the box (picky eaters). You can't please everyone! As long as you're not having a formal wedding (because I think that would be a juxtaposition that just won't work), I think you should do what you love.

Lasairiona

Breakfast is served in formal settings in the daytime, so why would nighttime be any different? Makes no sense. If the OP wants a formal wedding with breakfast for dinner, she has every right to and it won't make her wedding turn out to be a disaster. Some people focus too much on their own personal preferences and don't realize or care that not everyone views things the same way, but that doesn't make them wrong, contrary to popular belief. The guests are not being inconvenienced. They're being fed a full meal. What else do they need?.It's no different than if you were invited to a dinner party in someone's home where you eat what they offer and you don't complain.

PharmacyBride

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_food-cakes_reception-brinner?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:23Discussion:26d7cc98-31c4-43fe-8d30-0528ac5b616cPost:a25bfca5-c8cc-43f4-8ce0-4f51942774d9">Re: Reception Brinner</a>:
[QUOTE]I really think it is cute that you want to incorporate this into your wedding some how... but I am just giving my honest opinion that I would be disappointed as a guest.
Posted by PharmacyBride[/QUOTE]

I just wanted to come back and post again because I didn't emphasize the positive.  I believe anything done that is special to the B&G is great!!  I just wanted to give you an honest opinion of what a guest may think.  It is important to go through all of the positives and negatives and then make a decision.  I just didn't want you to have regrets if you didn't think it through and all the other posters just said go for it.  (I can't tell you how many of my orignial ideas I now hate once I came on TK and gave things a look from another perspective.)

I thought my post would help give you some cons.. but I must have been cranky that day because I should have wrote more about how "If you love it- then do it" and "Make your day special"

I hope my post helped in some way and just didn't flat out discourage you  : )  Good luck!

RachelleB123

I love the idea! I am all about doing things that are personal to the B&G. Another option is to have the brinner for a late night snack, on a smaller scale.

CristieSC

Why is it that the times have changed to a point where people bitch about the food you are going to serve them. "I would be upset because I would have had breakfast twice that day" - Really? Really? Who can guess what you may or may not eat that day.  Should we follow your princess butt around and make sure we don't serve something you may have had that day already.

I guess after dealing with complaining people and planning a wedding before, I would never worry about what other people thought again. Beleive me, if you serve chicken and steak people think its boring. I guess unless you are spending $20-$30K on a wedding, people don't think its good enough for their royal butts.

If people don't like what you serve them, then they apparantly aren't there to share your day....they are there for a free party. And at that, save yourself alot of time and aggravation....and put the money down on a new house.