Morning After Breakfast

Re: Morning After Breakfast

• [Deleted User] member

  

  May 2012

  If you do a picnic lunch, just get a 5' sub or two of them & maybe some salads, chips/dips, etc.  I think it is a very nice idea to do.

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• ap142193

  

  May 2012

  We are planning a post wedding gift opening party around 10:00 am.  We want to host it as a restaurant, but we were thinking of letting the guests decided and pay if they choose to eat since it will be between meals.  The entire plan for this event is still up in the air as I cant really decide what I want to do or where I want to have it.

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• TurtlesAllTheWayDown member

  

  May 2012

  Are you staying at a hotel the night of the wedding? You could rent one of their conference rooms and just order bagels, fruit salad, coffee and juice and treat it like an open house - have people stop by from 10am-noon or something.
  
  A friend of mine rented out one of those rooms/suites at the hotel at which she hosted her wedding (she may have even gotten it for free) the whole weekend. They had soda a tea the whole time so people could relax and visit. She did the continental breakfast the day after but ALSO did a dessert bar the night before the wedding. Everyone was invited to it, and it was a really nice idea. It was a lot cheaper than inviting everyone to the rehearsal dinner (which is what we did, but it's more expensive - my in-laws offered to host that and wanted to invite everyone, so that's why we did that).
  

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• jessicabessica member

  

  May 2012 edited May 2012

  I've had family do similar to what Mery is describing.  They rented a room at the hotel where everyone was staying (I don't even think it was a suite, they just had the hotel remove the bed), and it was stocked with bagels, juice, coffee, and baked goods in the mornings.  I have a lot of family in that area, so I think it was mostly put together by family that agreed to help out--a lot of delicious homemade baked goods.  

  
  

  And ap--10am is breakfast/brunch time, especially if you were out partying the night before.  I think if you invite your guests to a restaurant at 10am, it would be expected that you were paying.  If you don't want to pay, make the invitation very informal (word-of-mouth), and just say something like "we will be eating at x restaurant at 10am, you are welcome to join us if you'd like."  I also don't know how many people like watching the couple open gifts.  If you do want people to come watch you, I would host it at someone's house, and just get some easy breakfast items, make some coffee, and have that kind of food available.

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• librababy

  

  May 2012

  All my family will be coming from oot.  As much as I want to spend time with them, I am not doing a morning after breakfast.  Day before the wedding, will be the rehearsal and dinner and all my oot family as well as bp will be invited to that.  I will have suggestions for the guests of what they can do and where they can stay but the detais are still up in the air.  

  
  

  We want to head out to the honeymoon day after the wedding because that is the only time Fi will have time off work.  After we get back, we can plan outings for the family, depending on how much time they have left.

  

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