Will my wedding breakfast sound like an Indian restaurant?

Sounds great. Go for it. It is your special day and will make you happy. Quite boring without any background music.

I would love this. Your wedding breakfast sounds great, so much better than the usual chicken dinner or risotto for the veggies.

I badly want the sitar and flute to scratch to a halt and you and your new DH and the whole bridal team to suddenly jump out of your seats and do a massive Bollywood showstopper, men v women, jumping on the tables, the works. The waiters could be part of it too. Maybe your mum and dad.

PLLLEEEEEEZ OPPPP

It's totally the norm to do that in mixed culture weddings.

Has everyone RSVPed? Any spare seats? Asking for a friend, well, no, asking for me.

I think that sounds really lovely. I love a bit of nostalgia at a wedding!

And ultimately it’s your wedding, so have what you want. I strongly doubt any of your guests will mind what music you play during the meal. It’s just to create a backdrop, so once they’re all eating and talking and laughing they won’t be listening intensely to the music anyway; it will just be part of the atmosphere. You obviously love the general feeling that that music evokes, so go for it.

The last Anglo Indian wedding I went to had a Sitar playing who played versions of classic pop songs from the couples clubbing days, it was awesome.
You have never lived until you haveHeard Oasis, Blur and The Happy Mondays on a Sitar.
I would also love Bollywood music played too and it wouldn't remind me of an Indian restaurant at all,and is that was supposed to be a bad thing?

Veer jara reminded me,my son was a toddler and almost non verbal,one day he started pointing to youtube and saying "jhalom jhalom" .This went on for agonising half an hour while I was trying to figure out what he wanted.It was Janam dekhlo meet gayi duriyan song!...OP your guests would be delighted with the music and they actually would be expecting this. Go Old A R rehman like Roja/Bombay etc.Kehna hain keya from bombay is actually a wedding song! And you do a dance entry with Bole chudiyan!

What food will they be serving?

I'd love it. There's a violinist in the uk that plays Bollywood music.

Imagining an announcement. ‘And now, for all you Shah Rukh Khan fans, and even those who aren’t — we are now pausing the wedding for a compulsory viewing of the bride’s favourite film! Everyone go for a wee/fag now, please, as the doors will be locked once the film starts! We wouldn’t want you to miss a second of this classic!’

I think it sounds lovely! Most weddings are so predictable it is always nice to have something different but also sentimental

I think it would be lovely. Your wedding day is supposed to be full of the things that make you happy. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. They’ve either had their day, or they can make their own choices when it is their day. The only people that matter here are you and your DH. It is literally a celebration of the two of you. So don’t let anyone talk you out of something that will make you happy.

I'm indian and I'd love that. Just don't make people watch Mohabbatein unless you want a 4h snooze fest...😁

Don't assume that white British people don't like Bollywood. They used to show the films on BBC2 on a Saturday afternoon. My Mum would watch them because she loved musicals and dancing. It's a good choice.

I'd rather have full Indian than a fushion. It depends on how it's done, though. I worked in an Indian restaurant, they were from the punjab. The Wife played mostly ABBA, she ruled the roost.

Sounds lovely op. Go for the nostalgic music. Surely one of your parents is Indian if you are half and they don’t want any Indian music?

Yes, but it would be fabulous.
As long as it was not too loud and conversation was freely heard.

Later, some time after the first dance, you could also have a half hour set of Bollywood Indian exhibition dancers who get eveyone onto the dance floor. It is a lot of fun.

I think it sounds bloody lovely.

Most traditional weddings are done to a template. After three, you could predict it all in your sleep, because the venues churn them out. Still lovely when you care about the couple, but still. Any variation on the norm, in a natural and tasteful way as this clearly would be, is welcome!

I’d prefer no music. If you are going for Indian prefer original versions of Indian classical music.

Although I’m Indian heritage I’ve not followed Bollywood so just tunes, but great to have both heritage represented.

I’d not think that at all. I’m not even certain I’ve heard Indian music at an Indian restaurant, if I have I’ve completely forgotten about it.

I’ve been to several Indian functions and weddings, I love Indian music and would love to hear it during a wedding breakfast.

Can you stretch to having a real Indian musician/group playing for a bit?

I had a string quartet playing at mine (sorry if that sounds pretentious, but DH and I both play instruments and his DGfather was church organist) and I have Iranian family who’ve had live music at weddings in the past (and a disco/normal band in the evening). It was brilliant to experience it live.

My mum married an Indian man when I was three and we all went to live in his country for some years but I'm back in the UK now so Bollywood music was a staple of me and their children together growing up. As was combining both cultures.
For a wedding breakfast I'd prefer something like Ravi Shankar in the background as its gentler but heck it's your wedding have what you want....not too much loud singing and dancing through trees though 😁
I'm thinking of Bollywood circa 1970s.
And as long as you don't have paisley wallpaper and a plastic bar nobody will think Indian restaurant.
I had biriani and ashard legumes for my wedding breakfast, vegetarian of course and morris dancing. Everyone loved it.

Sounds excellent, I wish I was going.

You’re never going to please everyone, especially when it comes to music, and it’s your day so pick what’s going to make you happiest.

That being said I think that would be lovely way you start the day.