Do you prefer to attend a daytime (lunch) wedding or an evening (dinner) wedding?

[Anonymous]

Would be a Sunday wedding.

[Anonymous]

On a Sunday, lunch would probably be better, unless the Monday is a holiday. Lots of people won't stay late if they have work/school the next day. The advantage of a dinner wedding, IMO, is that people will dance afterwards. If you don't really care about that, or think they won't really dance a lot on a Sunday night, a nice lunch can be great. I've been to some really lovely lunch receptions, and I think they tend to be cheaper, too.

[Anonymous]

Lunch

[Anonymous]

I prefer the evening and on a Saturday. But to answer your question, since it's Sunday I would prefer it to be lunchtime.

[Anonymous]

Early dinner/late lunch.

[Anonymous]

I’ll be the outlier and also blunt. I have been to a dozen lunchtime weddings over the years and not one of them have been fun. Most have been in a different state. It feels wrong to be drinking wine at 11am and worse to find yourself back in your hotel room after the festivities are over at 2pm.

[Anonymous]

For Sunday, lunch. Unless Monday is a holiday, in which case dinner.

[Anonymous]

^ to add, finding yourself in a hotel room at 2pm either buzzed or bored, wishing you had booked a flight back home that night instead of waiting for the next day.

[Anonymous]

Daytime weddings are the wooooorst. Don’t do it.

[Anonymous]

Dinner. A wedding is a festive occasion and I expect to have a glass or two of bubbly and dance my ass off. I hate day-drinking and dancing in daylight.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the wedding. Cool winery with awesome food and friends you want to hang out with all day makes a great lunch wedding. Tacky loud DJ and bad buffet in boring ballroom is a terrible dinner wedding.

[Anonymous]

Lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends on the wedding. Cool winery with awesome food and friends you want to hang out with all day makes a great lunch wedding. Tacky loud DJ and bad buffet in boring ballroom is a terrible dinner wedding.

Yeah, if you're going to do a lunch, don't try to do a dinner reception but in the daytime. A champagne brunch, or a lunch at a cool location or great restaurant, or something like that.

People used to have wedding breakfasts! You got married in the morning, then had a big breakfast (probably more like brunch avant la lettre), which could be quite elaborate. That'd be a sweet tradition to bring back.

[Anonymous]

Lunch. Mainly because large wedding plates food is usually terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll be the outlier and also blunt. I have been to a dozen lunchtime weddings over the years and not one of them have been fun. Most have been in a different state. It feels wrong to be drinking wine at 11am and worse to find yourself back in your hotel room after the festivities are over at 2pm.

We had a brunch wedding and people still tell me how much they loved it, a decade later. Given the current renaissance of brunching, seems like people are more than happy to drink bloodies and mimosas at 11.