Afternoon tea for wedding breakfast

[WonderingAround]

If you were served afternoon tea as a wedding breakfast would you enjoy it or feel short changed and prefer a hot three course meal?

I attended a wedding recently where the wedding breakfast was "afternoon tea" which was three small filled rolls per person and some tiny defrosted cakes. I think anything you're given at a wedding is gratefully received but DP moaned a lot afterwards that he was starving and it was like a child's packed lunch. It was all discussed more because the groom was very "groomzilla" and obsessed with his wedding telling all and sundry how much it had cost and constantly asking people what they thought of such and such which just seemed like fishing for compliments.

[CPtart]

Honestly? I'd prefer a hot three course meal.

[BikeRunSki]

The best wedding I ever went to had afternoon tea at afternoon teatime -straight after the ceremony -and also a hot buffet later.

[HandsomeGroomGiveHerRoom]

Afternoon tea at teatime after an afternoon wedding, with a barbeque in the evening, seems fine. When I first read the op I assumed three tiny rolls and a couple of cakes was all there was for the whole do

[FinallyHere]

Recently went to a wedding located in the middle of nowhere East Anglia, no hotels less than an hour away. I didn't know this was actually possible in England, no mobile signal either. It started about 2pm, we knew from the invitation that that afternoon tea would be served. There was no other food to be had. Beautifully presented but very delicate, crust cut off sandwiches and tiny cakes. Cake stands were put on the tables, on our table it worked out at two quarters of a sandwich and one tiny cake each.

Later, about 9pm, there was a hog roast, which offered a slice of roast port in a roll for each person.

While I realise this is a first world problem, and millions are starving across the globe, and it is all about the occasion rather than the food... as a guest I really didn't feel cared for. Was not devastated when an elderly relative apologetically indicated she would be glad to go home about 7pm-ish. Never have I felt so glad to be of service.

[Pinkheart5915]

I've Been to a wedding that done afternoon tea, I enjoyed it but I really love scones helped DH out with his too.

I thought it was a nice idea

[lalalalyra]

One of the best weddings I ever went too had an afternoon tea. Gorgeous sandwiches, quiches, little savoury pastry parcels and then millions of little mini cakes - the kind you could eat loads and pretend you hadn't really because 'they're only little'. The key was a lot of food! One of the worst was where they had a cold buffet (sandwiches, sausage rolls, cold pizza and pork pies) where the hotel had said that only about half of the people attending ever eat - for the MAIN food, not the night buffet so there was hardly anything to go round and people were starving as we'd all been in the hotel the night before and breakfast was crap.

I'm now craving those little cakes again!