Full English breakfast as the wedding breakfast?

[Clocksandcandles]

Quirky or odd?

We really like the idea but unsure as to how well it will be received by guests.

Anyone done this or been to a wedding where they did this? What do you think?

It would be served buffet style so people can choose what they want...

Sounds horrid. Congealed greasy lukewarm breakfast with wine. Yuk!

sadly not. It's a messy meal (or is that just me). I'd be worried about getting grease and egg down my clothes.

OMG YES!!! That sounds amazing!!! Just, make sure you have some vegetarian options as well, such as vegetarian sausages.

What time is your wedding?
I wouldn't want that after mid day. Actually I'd like warning as me and mine wouldn't really appreciate it, and might want to make sure we had some snacks we could fill up on. It would also be better as a buffet, as people can be very fussy about which components they like/will eat.

No, just doesn't fit.

• anyone staying the night before or after in a hotel will have just had one!

• lots of people won't like the idea of a plate of fried food at all

• awful at a buffet. Only works if served lovely piping hot on a plate with all the trimmings. Think of the pots of half-congealed beans, the slimy half cold eggs. People up first taking six sausages and four buns and leaving the folk at the back with a plateful of said congealed beans. Grim.

• just not special. Sounds cool as an idea but the reality is it's cheap plain stuff which is really hard to make special.

• just doesn't go with wine and dancing and doesn't at all fit being followed by any kind of pudding - just bleurgh.

It's a great sounding idea, but I'd say it's probably one that many people think 'Oooh!' at then think through, and discount. Which is why it's not a 'cool thing' to do already!

Other things that work excellently jazzed up for a wedding:

Curry night
BBQ (alias 'hog roast'!)
Chippy supper
Burger van then ice-cream van

My sister is getting married. I am pitching this as an idea!

I hadn't thought about how impossible a dessert would be after a fry up. Bleurgh!

Late afternoon ceremony so food at seven ish.

Beer and wine.

High quality restaurant standard with locally sourced produce etc rather than greasy spoon, and buffet style so people can choose themselves.

Later on would be cake and a cake of cheese with all the bits.

Smallish do, hardly anyone travelling and in hotels, child free.

I'm in it for the hash browns alone!

I quite like it!

Agree about the dancing after though, I'd be beached on a sofa somewhere groaning. I have no self control at a buffet.

I would bloody love it! Mmmmm hungry now

No, no, no. Grease, congealed everything, bloated guests, it's reminiscent of hangovers and greasy spoon cafes even if it is high quality and locally sourced etc.

Will there be a starter and dessert?

It sounds quite heavy for dancing and drinking on especially as you're eating quite late on.

I do love a full English but not sure they cope well in buffet settings

My worry would be everyone would be too full and bloated and the party would be a bit of a damp squib.

What is a "wedding breakfast"? I thought weddings were in the afternoon?

So, you're having breakfast at 7pm? I think it's weird. Why not just do a nice buffet with freshly baked bread, cold cuts of meat etc

A full English breakfast is too messy and too filing when you're just starting drinking.

I love a full English breakfast. At breakfast time. I would hate this at a wedding, sorry. Agree with others that it doesn't go with drinking. It's something you eat the morning before or after drinking!

The meal after the wedding is traditionally called "the wedding breakfast"; I assume it comes from the old Catholic rule that you had to fast before the wedding as there would be a mass as part of it, and you had to fast before mass. So the meal after the wedding was when you would "break fast" or breakfast.

I would hate a full english as an evening meal, if there are children please warn their parents and anyone with health issues - so they can pack some health and palatable "snacks". (I'd pack some fruit at least.)
It would also be very very difficult to cater, and would have a high chance of either later food being cold/congealed or to take a very very long time for all to be served.

Mass catering is quite an art.

I really hate to piss on your chips OP, but how can you make a full English restaurant standard? A fried egg is a fried egg.

And a buffet fried egg is gross

I wouldn't eat it.
I don't like greasy food.
I don't like pork.
I cannot eat eggs.

Doesn't matter how good the quality. Doesn't matter how restaurant standard everything is.. It's all cooked the same.

Just. No.

Thanks mummytime. I've never heard that term before. Based on that, no then. I would hate a breakfast as a wedding meal. That's something I look forward to the morning after

I'd think the caterers had ballsed up and this was what could be rustled together out of the kitchen supplies.

No,you seriously cannot serve a fry-up at 7pm at a wedding.The reason you've never seen it at another wedding is for all the reasons listed above.

Full English at 7pm? Yuck.