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I would probably expect to have dinner provided. I'm not sure if I would get full on just appetizers.
If the reception starts at 7:30, yes I would be expecting dinner and I probably wouldn't eat before. It's fine if you don't have it, but just make sure people are aware that dinner will not be served.
I say do a full dinner. If I was a guest I would think that there would be dinner and not have eaten before hand. Especially since its New Years and I'm sure your guest will be drinking throughout the night, you might want to feed them so no one is overly intoxicated from not have eaten a full dinner.
I think if it were half an hour earlier, I would expect food, but my family always eats dinner at about 5 30 or 6 00. But if you include the information either way on the invitation I think you'll be fine.
I disagree. I don't think you necessarily need to serve dinner. Heavy appetizers would work well for a NYE bash. I think you need to make sure there's enough so that people won't get too drunk and make sure there's food throughout the evening, and alert people to the fact that dinner won't be served so they will eat before the ceremony. Are you guys going to party right into 2011?
Our reception will run from about 7:30-1:00am. I'm sure people will drink a bit. LOL.
I'm fine with paying for dinner, I just don't want everyone to eat beforehand. I guess on the invites I'll note DINNER to follow.
We usually don't eat until 8 or even later on the weekend, and generally after 7 during the week. So to eat before a 6:30 wedding would require eating WAY earlier than usual, to include ample time to get there on time as well. I would probably be expecting dinner unless your invites made it really clear that, say "appetizers and drinks to follow." Whatever you do, make it clear, though.
I eat dinner pretty late so I think I would probably expect a full dinner. I agree with Entangled...whatever you do, just make it clear and you should be fine!
Personally, unless it is specified on the reception card that dinner (or any other meal) will be served, I always eat before I leave. I have honestly only attended a couple weddings that served a full meal, so it would never occur to me, based on my experiences, to expect anything different. Also keep in mind that a full meal is certainly not required and in many social circles is completely unheard of.
That said, heavy appetizers served during a meal time is actually 3-4x the amount of food that you will be served with a plated meal. The minimum number of heavy appetizers per person during a meal time is 15-20+. For a non-meal time, that number drops to 3-4 per person. A plated meal is the equivalent of 6-8 pieces per person. By heavy appetizers, that means foods that are substantial such as coconut shrimp, eggrolls, carving stations, mozzarella sticks, chicken strips, etc. That does not include finger sandwiches, veggie platters, etc. which are not filling, even though most people insist that those are heavy appetizers and thus believe that you will be starving them if you say you are serving them during the dinner hour. If you are truly serving heavy appetizers during the dinner hour, just call it dinner, because they will be getting more food than with a regular plated meal. If anyone goes home hungry, that is their own fault.
Our wedding was at the same time and people expected a full meal.
7:30 is usually when we have dinner, so I would expect a full meal. We are having a similar timeline and we wrote "dinner and dancing immediately to follow" on our invitation.
As a guest I would be expecting a full dinner and be counting on it (and not have eaten before hand)
Thank you everyone! FI wants to do a full meal, so I think we will stick with that. If we have extra food, oh well!
We're date twins :)
Here's our evening: Ceremony at 7PM. Social hour directly after until 8:30: drinks and tray passed appetizers. Heavy hors d'oeuvres buffet at 8:30.
We chose a heavy hors d'oeuvres buffet because it'll allow people to grab small plates of food and move around and mingle. Our reception length is shorter than many, so we also didn't want to have a formal dinner take up most of the reception.
It depends on your own definition of heavy hors d'oeuvres...we're planning to have plenty of food, just having a slightly different type of food and style of presenting it.
As for cost, for what we're doing at least, it's more expensive than a sit down dinner and about the same price as a buffet, because the food is small and individually made.
I think I'd expect dinner...BUT all you have to do is indicate that it will be an hors d'oeuvres reception and people will eat before they come. :)
I think with that timeline I would expect dinner (especially to go all night), as long as it's not a monetary issue, that's what I would do
i expect full dinner if im invited to a wedding!! i think that is the best way to go
If it were at 7:30 I think I would be expecting a full dinner...but also because it is New Years Eve I think people wil be drinking more and therefore people might be wanting to eat more! Unless you are going to put something in the RSVP card about how you are just providing heavy h'ors douvres (so people can know to grab something beforehand if they need/want to) then I think you should go with the full dinner!
If money isn't really that much of an issue (and given your date), I'd provide dinner & then keep snacks coming throughout the rest of the evening. I think tapas during the dancing/drinking is the best part! haha
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We are having a 6:30pm ceremony on New Years Eve. We have gone back and forth on menu ideas, from a full dinner to heavy appetizers only.
We are anticipating the reception starting around 7:30. Would you, as a guest, have eaten before the ceremony or be expecting a full dinner?
Our reception venue is directly across from the ceremony site, so there is no travel required.
What do you think? It's not so much about money -- we can afford to provide a great dinner, but I don't want a ton of extra food.