to think I am going to be starving at this wedding?

[Aztecprint6]

Wedding breakfast is at 4:30pm.

Evening food will be wedding cake and some cheese.

AIBU to think I am going to have to bring along a sandwich and some late night snacks?

I think it's always wise to have some type of emergency snack stashed in your bag. It's just common sense.

You may not need it, but you'll be prepared if you do.

Also, I'm laughing at the idea of you genuinely believing a cheese course will just be a "block of cheese". You know rightly it won't be, you're just being pedantic for the sake of it.

Fill up on alcohol 😉😉

How ridiculously dramatic. And why is it such a big deal to you that you felt the need to dramatically moan about it.

Welcome to Mumsnet @SukiToast this is how we roll on Sundays

Cheese and bread/biscuits plus (probably fruit) and cake would be a perfectly adequate lunch, you're just having lunch and dinner the other way around.

Having attended several weddings where food has taken forever to appear or the vegetarian option ends up being the gluten free/vegan option I never go anywhere with protein bars, packs of crackers and some cubes of cheese/olives/nuts in a pot. I'm diabetic and can't go for hours and hours between food.

You'll be lucky to get food at 4.30.
If it's a hotel maybe you could order food from the bar later?

I have never heard of people giving cheese for the evening party. Is the bride low carbing or something?

It's not going to be a babybel each OP. Don't worry.

You'll be hungry.....not starving, there's a MASSIVE difference

@moonbedazzled

I have never heard of people giving cheese for the evening party. Is the bride low carbing or something?

Not if it’s being served with cake!

Starving? No. Hungry? Possibly.

@DetailMouse

Cheese and bread/biscuits plus (probably fruit) and cake would be a perfectly adequate lunch, you're just having lunch and dinner the other way around.

This is a good way to think about it. I’m honestly not entirely sure there will be the biscuits, fruit etc though! I think there is a high possibility it will just be… cheese?!

YABU. 3 courses at 4.30pm would be plenty for me. And a snack of cake and cheese would be perfect if I got peckish later on.

We have a young family and eat at 4.30/5pm most nights. I may have a yoghurt at around 8pm but that's enough for me.

You obviously know it’s just just a block of cheese so clearly just want to be miserable about this. If you didn’t want to attend a destination wedding you didn’t have to.

If you have a normal dinner at 7 you will be fine having a 3 course meal 2.5hr earlier plus cake and cheese and crackers and drinks layer.

If not you are an adult, stick a snack in your bag and order room service later. You’ll survive.
Do you never adjust your eating times because you are socialising or have eaten a bigger or late lunch?

Shove a packet of quavers in your handbag and you’ll be reet!

It depends on what the wedding breakfast is, if it’s a large 3+ course meal which will leave you stuffed then considering you probably won’t have finished eating until close to 6 just cake and cheese in the evening should be fine, especially as I’m assuming the cheese will include bread, crackers and maybe other charcuterie type things. It’s unlikely to just be a few slices of cheese! At Christmas after eating the large meal in the afternoon most don’t have another main meal in the evening and just graze on things. I would expect the wedding breakfast to be more than you would usually eat in one meal so eating earlier shouldn’t matter so much; have you received a menu for it?

If you’re worried though there is definitely no harm in bringing some snacks with you for the evening as long as you do so discretely.

Would you normally have a three course meal at 7pm? Cause that's what your having 2 and half hours earlier and then you'll be topped on cake and cheese.

It's evening guests I'd feel sorry for.

I always take an emergency flapjack in my handbag to weddings.

For dds wedding we are doing little cake and drinks on arrival after ceremony then doing 2 course meal at 4.30 then sausage sandwiches, chips and wedding cake for all guests including evening people.
Does that sound ok

If I’ve been at a wedding the whole day I’m usually so stuffed from the meal I’m not interested in the evening buffet at all, so YABU. I always think the evening buffet is mainly for the benefits of the guests only coming to the evening.

@Northernlurker

For dds wedding we are doing little cake and drinks on arrival after ceremony then doing 2 course meal at 4.30 then sausage sandwiches, chips and wedding cake for all guests including evening people. Does that sound ok

Sausage sandwich and chips in the evening sounds amazing

If you eat a decent-sized meal at 4:30 and then cheese (and biscuits/bread, presumably) and cake in the evening, I can't remotely see why you'd be starving. Just eat plenty of cheese and cake. They are pretty calorific, filling foods tbh.

I'd have a sandwich before the wedding, especially if I was drinking. I think I'd be ok then with the described food.

I usually bring fruit and chocolate with me for an overnight hotel stay anyway.

I’m honestly not entirely sure there will be the biscuits, fruit etc though! I think there is a high possibility it will just be… cheese?!

Oh come on... why on earth would you think that? Who the hell does a buffet of just 'blocks of cheese'?!