Can i have a piece of chicken at least? 😆

View Quoted Comment Yes we have two cooks for the morning of to prepare meals for bride/groom and bridal party. The grooms side can eat heavier meals but of course my side we are all thinking of fitting into our dresses and making sure we don’t feel gassy and bloated so our cook will be making small app sizes of most things. I’m excited about that meal. My sister and one of my BMs are on food duty and said they’d make sure I’d have food and I also am determined to make time for food. The caterer we have makes soooo much food I’m certain we’d have plenty of leftovers. We are looking forward to having the left overs as well haha. I don’t really like cake and in fact we won’t be having one but I’ll make sure to enjoy the desserts we have. Thanks for al the tips 😀

View Quoted Comment I can see where this could happen. For me everything makes me want to eat, happiness, sadness, anxiety, etc so I just couldn’t see mysef not wanting to eat happening lol

Total honesty here - we had MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME to eat. We also had time to enjoy cocktail hour. Yes, we did a first look and most of our photos before the ceremony - but even if we hadn't done the first look part, we still would have had more than enough time to enjoy our day. It really is all about managing your time.

View Quoted Comment 🤣🤣. You are all set then!

View Quoted Comment Ahhhh how exciting!! I wish you perfect weather and am sending all the positive vibes your way. I think your plan sounds awesome! How are you feeling?

I have a big reputation for being hangry and passing out from not eating. It's literally not neogitable for me to eat. My fiance and mother have made a point to our staff to make sure I eat. The last caterer I saw said he's made specail plates for the bride and groom to eat I the bridal suite alone during cocktail hour if we did a first look because he hates the idea of someone not eating. He said he'd bring up the hours dvours for me if I'm I promise not to pass out. 🤣
I'm lucky our wedding is small and everyone invited knows my health history enough to know to feed me.

View Quoted Comment Thanks for sharing your experience and I’m glad it worked out for you.

View Quoted Comment Ooo yes Kelly that’s is a priority! I’m glad he will make sure you are fed.

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Very excited! Just finalizing details!

EAT the food! I am paying for my reception so I’m eating EVERY course!!!!

We did a receiving line after the ceremony so there was no need to cut our dinner short for table visits. I've seen the "no time to eat" when people plan to say their thank you's during dinner. I'm personally not a fan bc it cuts your dinner short OR extends dinner way too long so that B&G can eat and then make a point to speak to everyone. With good planning, you should have no problems.

I enjoyed the heck out of our food !!
I do owe a lot of that to the catering staff— the coordinator brought us a plate of the passed apps while we were doing cocktail hour pictures (I will say I have come to regret not stopping by the chip and dip station that was out, but at that point I was busy mingling.

For dinner, we had a buffet. The catering coordinator asked if we wanted them To just make us up a plate or just go through the buffet. ALWAYS SAY YES if they offer to make your plate! I said no 🤣 thinking I didn’t need to sit and eat immediately and I could grab what I wanted later. I ran it by my husband bough and he was like “um yes definitely have them serve us!” So we did! Best choice and crisis narrowly avoided. I didn’t get to make up my plate but they gave us each one of everything. So we sat and ate while everyone else did the same, and it worked out great and the food was SO good. We probably ONLY sat for the 10 minutes it took us to eat, but I savored every bite.

I sadly didn’t have any dessert though (might be the worst thing to have happened on my wedding day though, so I’ll take it)— I DID have the opportunity! I was just stuffed and not interested in MORE food at the time haha. I felt at peace with my decision in the moment but the next day when EVERYONE was talking about how good it was, I started to regret missing out, haha.

We absolutely ate! Now I wasn't able to pig out like I would have wanted too (our food was THAT good) but we ate. Best way to do this is make sure the venue staff sends you to the buffet first or have the wait staff serve you first. It doesn't take that long to eat.

LOL I was just as worried! While you and the girls are getting you hair and makeup done, pack snacks and lunch!

The bridal party and I had a private cocktail hour and we were able to relax and try some of the food from the cocktail hour brought downstairs to our bridal suite from the bridal attendant. If you choose to go to your cocktail hour, it will be harder to eat since guests will want to come up to you and congratulate you.

During dinner, you will have time to eat since everyone else will want to eat too! 😊

The mest was gone by the time I got to sit down and eat. So I only got rice beans and cake

View Quoted Comment Hahaha exactly how I feel!

View Quoted Comment Yea I’m sure I will be able to eat. I’m making sure to make this a priority. The post was for good laughs and light talk. With good planning I don’t see why eating can’t happen.

View Quoted Comment Hahaha I hear you. I plan to have anything I didn’t get to eat because I was stuffed packed up so I can enjoy that night or the next morning lol

View Quoted Comment Lol I’m glad you were able to eat.

View Quoted Comment Yes we have a cook that will be making bite sized brunch items while we are getting ready. They will also be making nite sized sandwiches so we can have lunch before heading to the venue. I’m very excited about that 🤣