Brunch Wedding- thoughts?

Are you going on a honeymoon? Could you leave that evening after the wedding festivities are over?

I always thought it would be fun to go back to your first date location in your wedding attire or hit up a pizza or ice cream shop.

If you're not set on it being just the two of you, you could invite some of your friends and family out bowling or to a local bar for an after party.

If nothing else, rent a nice hotel or airbnb, enjoy a bath together, order food to be delivered and bask in the newlywed bliss.

Hi there!

We had a boozy brunch adults-only wedding dance party! We make breakfast every day together before we go to work, he proposed during breakfast, so it made sense for us. We knew we wanted a brunch/breakfast wedding since before we were engaged.

It was a Sunday and we began the day at 11:30am. The entire thing was basically the reception, starting with mimosas and passed food, brunch stations, our 30 minute ceremony was at 1:30pm, which was in the same space, they took out the buffet tables and replaced it with a stage that my husband and I stood on, it was casual— people stood or sat. Immediately after we were announced married the dance party began (parent dances, couples dance, all inclusive dance, and finishing with everybody on the dance floor. Around 3pm we had desserts set out and extra passed savory snacks, the dance floor was paaacked the entire time, and 6:30 was when the venue closed.

Our priorities were food, drinks, and dancing so we had a massive dance party with 100 guests. We left an after-party up in the air as we wanted to play by ear, we had a list of bars/restaurants to go to afterwards if we could make it.

But by the time 6:30pm rolled around we were ready to lay down. With an early start you've got to remember that you'll wake up super early too, and chances are you barely slept the night before. Luckily I only had a best lady in my bridal party so we didn't have too much hair/makeup prep. However, we still woke up at 5am since we had all our photos taken before the wedding began at 11:30am (getting ready photos, opening wedding gifts, first look, wedding party, couples portraits, parent portraits, extended family portraits— which I don't recommend the last grouping for photos). So at 6:30pm we checked into our hotel down the street, ordered room service, watched whatever was on tv, and went to bed. We were spent, and also super drunk from all the day-drinking.

Our guests had dinner later, everyone split off into different groups, and called it an early night. Our wedding day was also a Sunday so most traveled to their homes that evening/next early morning and worked the next day. It was nice to get the day-drinking done and have the rest of the night to socialize or wind down. We also had a welcome lunch on Saturday, the day before, to get everyone on a schedule, and were able to maximize time spent with our guests who traveled around the world to celebrate us.

With that said, for your guests; plan a rehearsal/welcome dinner/lunch if that's something you're doing, and the wedding. People can do what they want after the wedding. For you and your husband, afterwards you could have dinner with family or your friends, go bar hopping, or hang just hang out with just the two of you!

Our guests had a fantastic time at our wedding, we hyper planned every detail from our guests perspective and they felt how effortless and fun it was. We've heard that the food was great, they early start is better so you're not waiting around all day, day drinking is fun when you’re an adult, and they didn't get hung over. People have said it was the most they danced at a wedding and the most fun they've had. They could just be saying those things but we'll take it. In our eyes it was a total success.

Aw thank you, I have yet to post an actual BAM— I haven't even posted on social media. I'm actually missing planning and want to lend as much advice as I can to future brides!

I'd check in to a nearby hotel! Maybe schedule a couples massage later in the day? Or a fancy dinner? But right after people eat I assume people will mingle & maybe even dance, maybe play yard games or a photo booth?