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?

Likewise.
Food just wasn’t the key thing on my mind.
If I did have any hunger pangs I’ll have been too distracted/having too much fun to really bother about them.
Food- or lack of- doesn’t feature prominently in my memories of any of the weddings I’ve been to.

Just have lunch beforehand and have a snack in your handbag if you're worried.

@GhoulWithADragonTattoo that won’t cut it - you need another full hot meal in the evening apparently

It's odd, but perhaps the venue is a B&B type place, and the budget is tight.

Depends what sort of breakfast it is.
If it's full English, you'll probably be OK-ish.
The buffet type breakfasts can be good.
Cereal and toast would leave you very hungry.
It's unlikely to be continental, due to the blocks of cheese for supper.

On that basis, I'd expect full English- but plan for cereal based. If it's those mini boxes from multipacks, the packs of cheese might not be enough.

Might be an idea to take a few of those huge packs of Jacobs Crackers to barter with other guests. Would go nicely with the cheese blocks.

@nextlevelnonsense
Depends what sort of breakfast it is.
If it's full English, you'll probably be OK-ish.
The buffet type breakfasts can be good.
Cereal and toast would leave you very hungry

A wedding breakfast isn't actuality a breakfast, it's just a strange way of describing the afternoon early dinner/"teatime meal.
So a meal around 4pm ish in this case

@Nextlevelnonsense erm they’re not getting breakfast. The guests will need to eat breakfast in the morning and then travel to the wedding after

@PurpleDaisies

And round and round and round we go again.

This thread is clearly divided into people who have been to under catered weddings and those who haven’t.

No, I think it's split between greedy pigs and people who understand that after eating canapes, three courses, a cheese course, cake and drinks, quite literally no one is going to be starving/shaking/fainting. It's ludicrous to argue someone would be fainting after that amount of food in the space of an afternoon-evening.

Greedy pigs
That got an actual lol
It is not greedy to not be filled up by a bowl of soup starter,, a plate of vegetables main course and a bowl of fruit salad dessert.
Which is what I got once at a fancy in the middle of nowhere destination wedding.
Maybe people are stuffed full after a few pieces of roasted red peppers, but a lot just as equally aren't

cheese course, cake

Which is no good for me.
Are there any alternatives?
If not I'm left with just some crackers and breadsticks

If the wedding is well catered with a canapés, a decent meal, a big enough cheese and cake thing etc, great. Your snacks stay in your bag.

If not and you feel genuinely hungry, eat your snacks so you don’t feel hungry any more and you don’t fall down drunk.

How exactly does that make you a “greedy pig” for having a back up plan if the portions are small, especially when that’s happened before?

Which is no good for me.

There is always going to be people that don't find atleast one thing suitable. You are never going to be able to please everyone. It's just that most adults wouldn't hold a grudge about it for years or turn up with a cool box of their own food.

How exactly does that make you a “greedy pig” for having a back up plan if the portions are small, especially when that’s happened before?

😂🤣 It sounds like you're going for night manouvres with the army having to have a 'back up plan'. It's just a day out! With food provided!
As I've said before, if you're medically compromised, I quite understand if you need food every hour or whatever works for you.
If not, it's bonkers!

I am also 😂😂😂 at the wedding breakfast and the variety mix of little boxes of cereal as the food provided after a wedding!! (wedding breakfast is a daft term I agree)

(Conversation overhead at wedding breakfast)
"I'll fight you for the Frosties"
"Will you swap your Cornflakes for my Rice Krispies if I throw in an All Bran?"
I am seriously laughing out loud at this thread!

It sounds like you're going for night manouvres with the army having to have a 'back up plan'. It's just a day out! With food provided!
As I've said before, if you're medically compromised, I quite understand if you need food every hour or whatever works for you.
If not, it's bonkers!

Excellent. A new variety of insults to add to fat, causing the obesity crisis, unwell, greedy pig…

So at a special occasion, I’m only allowed to want to eat to my appetite if I’m medically compromised or eat every hour even though it causes no issues for anyone else. Good to know.

@EeeICouldRipATissue

cheese course, cake

Which is no good for me.
Are there any alternatives?
If not I'm left with just some crackers and breadsticks

I’m confused, are you the op or attending? I don’t understand why you’re asking if there is alternatives for you and saying what you will be left with to eat?

PurpleDaisies

If you found my jokey tongue in cheek post insulting, I honestly think you ought to step away from the thread!

You can take what food you want with you if that's your thing. I can find it amusing if that's my thing.

@MayLeaveADentInYourSofa

We had this timing at our wedding.

Ceremony at 3. Three course meal starting at 4.30/5. Light evening buffet.

When I booked it I had assumed that everyone would have lunch before they came but apparently guests were hungry during the afternoon, then the 3 course meal did not fill them enough and the buffet later was too little.

Why assume guests would have lunch when you are providing a meal at 4:30pm? We've missed lunch travelling to weddings before but expected a reasonably sized meal for the wedding breakfast.

I’d also assume if dinner was served at 4.30 to 5 and ceremony not till 3 people will have lunch, I don’t see how travelling means you’re incapable of eating or brining a sandwich or something with you?

@Roussette

PurpleDaisies

If you found my jokey tongue in cheek post insulting, I honestly think you ought to step away from the thread!

You can take what food you want with you if that's your thing. I can find it amusing if that's my thing.

Whether it’s jokey or not, look at the substance of your post. According to you, it’s only ok to bring snacks when you know you might be hungry if you’ve got a medical condition.

PurpleD

We all have opinions.. you can do what you want when you go to a wedding! Pack your handbag full of food if that's what you want!

And I can find it bizarre if I want! (That's the nature of a forum. Differing opinions on different subjects)

@Baconandmaplesyrup

I’d also assume if dinner was served at 4.30 to 5 and ceremony not till 3 people will have lunch, I don’t see how travelling means you’re incapable of eating or brining a sandwich or something with you?

Why eat lunch when there is a three course meal coming at 4:30pm? I wouldn't want to eat at that time if I had had lunch. Not sure how that is hard to understand.

Why eat lunch when there is a three course meal coming at 4:30pm? I wouldn't want to eat at that time if I had had lunch. Not sure how that is hard to understand

Is this a serious question? It’s quite normal to eat lunch and not wait till 4.30 or 5 pm to eat from breakfast. Many people do it.

If I was going to a wedding where I knew the main meal would be served from 4.30, I'd have a substantial late breakfast at about 10/11 am which should see me nicely hungry for another proper meal at about the right time.

I'd probably not want much else that day, but would likely be up for something like cheese and cake at around 8/9 pm if it was on offer.

Is this a serious question? It’s quite normal to eat lunch and not wait till 4.30 or 5 pm to eat from breakfast. Many people do it.

Yes a serious question or I wouldn't have asked it. I'd have a large breakfast then wait.

@PurpleDaisies it’s just that most adults wouldn’t need snacks with that amount of food on offer. And they certainly wouldn’t be feeling faint etc. I would be a bit 🤨 if I knew people had handbags full of snacks as a “back up” plan 🤣

People can feel hungry and it won’t kill them, they won’t die.
Hunger is just a feeling like any other but it genuinely feels that in our modern western society people where food is so plentiful people are not used to ever feeling even slightly hungry and then panic when they do feel it!

Chill out a bit, enjoy the day, chat , enjoy your surroundings, know that you will get fed and then just put it to the back of your mind and crack on!

It’s just that most adults wouldn’t need snacks with that amount of food on offer.

You do not know the amount of food on offer or when it will be served. That is the point you are wilfully missing.