Post Wedding Brunch?

I'm with Celia. If you are actually inviting specific people to attend a post wedding brunch (which is absolutely a wedding related event), it should be hosted.

For those of you with evening weddings, don't be surprised if you wake up the next morning and just want to have room service bring you breakfast. Don't underestimate how tired you'll be -- the mere stress (even good stress) of the wedding day is exhausting, not to mention the length of the wedding day.

I just can't pass up any opportunity to have brunch. We've thought about having our wedding earlier in the day specifically to have brunch instead of dinner.

I definitely don't expect it the day after a wedding though.. but it is nice for us morning/brunch lovers!

Never heard of such a thing... I will still be in bed at brunch, so that's not happening .... that's "our time" every sunday... no one comes in our room on Sunday morning...

We had thought about it, but when we have very few guests staying at the hotel. And the fact that the day after our wedding is Mothers Day we didn't want people to feel like they had to stay.

Our hotel does have a hot brunch in the restaurant downstairs so we are going to put vouchers in the hotel bags, and if guests want to have breakfast, they just provide the voucher and we will pay for it all at the end. They offered to throw reserved signs on a few tables for any of our guests.

I think it's likely we will meet up with some of the OOT guests the next morning. We see most of these people only once a year and FH is very close to them so we'll want to get as much time with them as possible! FH is NOT a morning person though, so we'll have to see how much energy he has.

"@Natalie most said while planning they were excited about it. When it came time to the morning of they were beat and really just wanted those few hours alone. Or to get home, etc."

Melissa, we had one and we didn't regret it at all. You have the rest of your life to be together and sleep in; the wedding is once-in-a-lifetime thing. So if you can't afford or don't want to have a brunch, don't, but don't let the reason be because people told you you'll regret it because you want to sleep in.

It was wonderful to get to actually spend some time with our guests after the wedding before everyone left (destination wedding). We had 90-something guests at the wedding and nearly 70 at the breakfast, though guests came and left at different times. It was catered in the resort hotel and we served a big country breakfast with stations: eggs, bacon, sausage, waffles, pancakes, pastry/muffins, French toast, fresh fruit, an assortment of cereals, milk, juices, coffee, and tea. A lot of people said the food was great and they liked being fed before hitting the road.

From our perspective, we loved those last few minutes with everyone and having a chance to individually thank them before seeing them off. We simply went back to our suite and rested afterwards (we didn't leave town until Monday) and the few family members who stayed met us later for a gondola ride and dinner (which we did not host).

I believe we are doing ours around 1030 or 11. It's 2 hours long. I am putting information in the invitation.