Please can you help! i really dont know how to word it in my invites!
We are having a 3 course carvery for our wedding breakfast and people can go up as many times as they like for food, so we thought that a full evening buffet wouldnt be required so we are doing bacon rolls / Sausages Rolls for people.
However we are inviting additinal people to the evening reception... now will these people be expecting a full buffet??
Is there anything we can put on the invite for evening guests to state please eat a meal before arriving!
I want to word it nicely! but i am really stuck on what to put?!
any ideas are welcome
Thank you
CommentAuthorMrsStorey2B
Light snacks available
CommentAuthorMrsStorey2B
If your having a late wedding breakfast you could put, due to late timings of our wedding breakfast only light snacks will be available in the evening
CommentAuthorMrsMoran
Just put something like Menu: for the evening do, we'll be putting on a spread of bacon rolls/sausage rolls at .... time for all of our evening guests. We advise that it will not entail a full buffet so should be aware, to save any hungry guests later in the evening, to eat prior to attending if requiring something more substantial.
Or something along those lines ?? xxx
CommentAuthorJoanna
Put something simple like "evening reception starts at 7 and bacon and sausage rolls will be served at 9"
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CommentAuthorMrsMoran
Aww you're welcome hun, we're always here to help xxx
CommentAuthorFinally Susan B
I think I'd mention sausage/bacon rolls for the buffet - so people will know it isnt a full on buffet and any veggies will be aware. I'd probably put on evening invites - ' cash bar and we will be providing sausage & bacon roll snacks'
CommentAuthorclive
We're doing exactly the same as you, except were having a two-course carvery but were also having an evening buffet. I personally would go for a buffet if funds are available, but mrs storey's and mrsMoran's comments are probably the best ones/what you want to hear. Another little tip; You don't say what time your'e getting married, but, it is late morning (i.e. before lunch) and your wedding breakfast doesn't finish until around 3-4pm, there will be a two-hour gap between the change over from WB to evening reception, so if there has been an overkill on the wedding breakfast food/evening buffet food, should you decide to have one, then what you could do, is get some snacks/nibbles out to the front of your venue, so your guests can keep hunger pains at bay.
Believe me, there's nothing worse than waiting around for what seems like hours, waiting to be fed. I know, I've been there!:-)
I'll be interested to know what your'e having in your carvery as well -outs is too school-canteenish!:-)
CommentAuthorRuthW61
Clive we are getting married at 2pm and we are aiming to sit down for our WB at 4.30pm ish and our venue told us that we would be finished at about 7pm! with all the speeches etc inbetween! Our venue have said people can go up for seconds... i guess it doesnt waste the food then! We have 3 starters to choose from and 3 different meats plus a veggie options and then all the veg and 2 different types of potatoes... then we have 3 or 4 puddings to choose from and then we have mince pies and coffee after dinner before disco starts as we are getting married around xmas time! I am slighlty worried it may look abit school canteenish but i think they will do it table by table and work around it! to be honest i cant wait for mine as its a christmas carvey ;o) i think people will enjoy ours too as no doubt it will be cold outside! So our meal will finish at about 7pm with mince pies and coffee.. so bacon rolls at 9pm seems okay to me but i cant see many people from the day eating them! only the brothers no doubt! ;o)
let me know how yours goes! 6 weeks to go! YAY you must be getting excited!
CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
we went to a wedding a few weekends ago that did that we finished eating at 6.30 roulette tables at 7 and then butties were at 9 which a lot of day people ate as they were hungry from all the dancing so it should be fine hun
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CommentAuthorDecember
Ruth we're getting married in December and doing the same as you. Ceremony at 1pm, 3 course sit down meal though, then having bacon/sausage baps in the evening. I just find buffets too expensive, they are never very good and people much prefer bacon rolls!
I like Joanna's wording, we'll probably put something like that on ours.
CommentAuthorMrsWright290912
Ruth, We got married at 2pm, wedding breakfast at 4ish finishing about 6ish and our evening guests were arriving at 7pm.
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Wright wedding!
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CommentAuthorRuthW61
Hi December... your getting married the same day as me... and i can see you live locally to me too! ;o) friend requested you ;o) Wedding Day buddy! ;o)
CommentAuthorLauraJo87
Personally, I'd find bacon/sausage baps just as filling and satisfying as a buffet, I don't think you need to let your guests know in advance xx
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CommentAuthorDecember
OOoo! Ruth I just sent you a message :) Exciting!
CommentAuthorNearlyMrsFountain
I don't think I would even tell them... We are having a BBQ in the day and same as you in the evening and I hadn't even thought they need to know xxx Just my opinion xxx
CommentAuthorbarbie86
The ideas above are good, however, I never expect to eat if I'm going to an evening event, so I always eat dinner beforehand, and usually get a takeaway on my way home (yes, I'm greedy like that lol); I think most people are the same, and TBH, I think bacon rolls are more filling than the typical finger-food that's on offer at buffets.
So in short, I don't really feel like you need to warn them, but, if you do, I'd probably go with Joanna's wording, which is nice and simple and to the point.
CommentAuthorKirsty
I never expect food at an evening do, we are proving bacon baps and a few cheese boards. We are getting married at 2pm, the sit down meal should be all finished by 6pm, and the evening food is coming out about 8.30-9pm.
My sister payed for a full buffet and we were all really full so it literally all went to waste!
