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Hi, I'm looking for thoughts and advice.

We are planning the ceremony and the party at the same venue, basically one running into the other. No sit down meal (but there will be seats). There will be snacks available for the duration (so cheese, crackers, crisps and nuts as soon as the ceremony concludes) and a long, informal Street food service through the evening.

If the ceremony is at 3pm and there is a children's tea party at 5.30pm with the main catering opening at 6.30pm, would anyone think that was unreasonable?

Btw to clarify, the children's tea party will be in the adjacent room to the main event, it will be the start of a full nanny/crèche room that all the children will be registered for, but no one is obliged to use, children are welcome at all parts of the event.

It sounds perfect! Have a lovely, lovely time.

I'd do tea and cakes after the 3pm service (they keep looking nicer and fresher than cheese boards, IME) plus the bar. Kids tea at 5pm, speeches (if you are having them) at 6pm then evening food available from 6.30pm

Sounds lovely

Your nuts looks lovely, OP , but as there won't be any of these, I am unfortunately unable to attend.

I'm sorry SurburbanRhonda, I'm afraid we won't be able to accommodate you due to recently implementing a no nuts policy!

Thanks to a of you for your advice, I'll take it all under advisement

Have the nuts. They are in packets ffs you are not using them as confettie

Given the style of your wedding the snacks including nuts fit perfectly. Sounds great OP my kind of wedding.

I know we're going off on a tangent but I'm fairly sure that for about 30 years every single wedding ever featured bags of nuts in the form of sugared almonds - it was wedding law!!

Do what you want. It's your day and your guests will be family and friends who will just want to enjoy your day. People with nut allergies or are carers of children with nut allergies will have to do their normal thing and take care! If you ban everything people can be allergic to you will just serve air and water!
Have an amazing day.

I think your schedule sounds great - as someone who feels much better if I eat an normal times married to someone who gets migraines if he doesn't, your schedule is great. Ceremony at 12 with meal at 4 is our nightmare.

I've always appreciated a rough schedule for weddings (as they vary quite a bit), and I appreciate it even more now I've got a small child (who has been to lots of weddings) - if I know there'll be food for her at 5, then I won't give her a substantial snack at 4.30. On the other hand, if no-one is being fed until 7, I'll basically bring a snacky meal for her.

Hope you have a great day!

I think it sounds lovely with the food/timings set out in your original post. I don't personally like nuts, but can't think there would be a problem serving them in bags (unless of course any of your guests have a severe nut allergy, which they would surely let you know about).

I think the whole thing sounds wonderful OP! Much less boring than your average church, best western, dry chicken breast and DJ! Ignore the criticism, I think they just can't see past what they know.

On demand street food? Where is my invite?! Nuts or no, I need to go.

Timings sound fine. I went to a wedding once where the ceremony was at 1pm and the breakfast wasn't until 5.30. One of the guests sneaked out to McDonald's.

Sounds lovely, but when ever I am going to an event starting mid afternoon, I tend to skip lunch. Therefore by 4pm I'd be ravenous, gorge on nuts and be too full to eat main meal.

If guests are aware ahead of time of the timing, that would be fine, but standing around with your one teeny glass of champagne for an hour or two is akin to the hour I spent at my GP surgery today.
I'd let them know ahead of time or give them something hot to eat while all the waiting around is being done.

This sounds like the best wedding ever. Go for your original timings. People who skip lunch for any reason are daft. And have no right to complain about tea being served at, well, teatime. :o

Sounds lovely, but when ever I am going to an event starting mid afternoon, I tend to skip lunch. Therefore by 4pm I'd be ravenous, gorge on nuts and be too full to eat main meal.

But if you knew that, you'd eat something before you left the house, surely?

I think your wedding sounds amazing and loads of fun and I wouldn't change a thing

Your wedding sounds amazing. It always baffles me how many people get confused when someone plans a wedding that is different to the norm. No ability to think outside the box.

Wedding at 3, you'd definitely have lunch or at least brunch. And all those snacks...no one is going to starve!

And yeah, people will tell you if they can't have nuts.

I got married at 12pm and didn't have canapés, so no food until the wedding breakfast from about 2.30. Isn't it normal for the wedding breakfast to be about 3-3 hours after the ceremony, and therefore waiting until 6.30 would be ok? Especially if snacks are available. Wedding sounds lovely!

I do t think anyone will be travelling far in the day (although with a 3.30 start they do at least ha e the option). If anyone is, I'll make sure I discuss lunch with them.

[still baffled that anyone would rock up to something at 3.30 not realising that rhey should have had lunch]

I want to come. The food sounds amazing!!?

Sounds great! Though with booze id be hungry again about 9.30/10pm. What time is the food stall thing finishing?

Oh honestly, the nut thing is just daft.

And food at 6.30 is fine - surely people can manage a few hours without stuffing their faces?!

Food will be a 4 hour service so 6-10 or 6.30-10.30 event finished at 11 though so I think 6-10 is fine. We are catering for everyone to get more than one go at the food!

Also, if you get peckish you can have a bag of nuts crisps

I would definitely have had lunch prior to a 3:30 wedding, I think it's reasonable to assume other people would too!
I think your wedding sounds great, hope you have a wonderful day : )

I think it sounds amazing OP. And I love nuts!