When do you get to Eat?

You have to make time for it. I would recommend getting your plates at the very start of dinner so you can eat quickly and then make your table rounds.

I am eating while my guests eat. As much as I want to greet them, I will not be a nice person if I don't eat. So I will make the rounds afterwards.

Our venue, who's also doing the catering, feeds the bride and groom first after the first dances. We'll be eating as everyone else gets their food since we're have a buffet

The caterer we're leaning towards goes through the buffet line and gets plates together for the bride and groom. It would be waiting on the sweetheart table for us when we sit down at the reception.

@MNA that's what our advisor said too as a helper to us. I hate to say it, but I'm the same lol @Kay

@windowschick We're doing a sweetheart table too. I figured we could try to eat while speeches were going on too and we also have a dedicated server for just us too.

We will be eating when our guests eat!

Thank you all the advice help. I appreciate it

We are sitting down to eat at the same time everyone else does. We'll probably skip the salad course or eat quickly so we can go around to each table and visit for a minute. Most of the weddings I've been to I didn't get to spend tons of time with the bride and groom. I'm sure we'll just do the best we can.

I know they say that the bride and groom barely get to eat. Screw that! I'm eating! We will go through the buffet first and have a sweetheart table.

We ate just before our guests. The servers brought plates to us just before they began going around to the guests. This way we could finish eating a little earlier than everyone else and begin making our rounds.

We ate at the same time as our guests, which was during speeches/toasts. Instead of going around to every table, we said a thank you speech at the end of dinner, just basically thanking everyone all at once. If we had gone around to every table we wouldn't have had time to eat!

Most of my venues serve the couple first so they can finish a little earlier and do table visits.

IMHO, if you can't make time to talk to your guests, they shouldn't be invited.

Our caterer had a plate of apps set aside while we did photos during the cocktail hour. After we were announced we were first in line to the buffet and ate as everyone else was in line and we all ate together. We had a small guest list (only 40) so the line went quick and it was very enjoyable to eat with everyone. We did not do first dances, speeches from BM or MOH.

Once dinner was cleared we cut the cake and it was sliced and passed around.

You eat when the guests eat.

My sister and BIL's DOC made sure they had a chance to sit down and enjoy their meals. Definitely bring this up with whoever you hire(d).

Talk with your venue! Ours will have 2 plates set aside for us to eat before we walk into the reception. (But after everyone else is already at the reception)

My cousin and his wife actually ate dinner together before being announced into the reception. Basically, they finished pictures about 20 minutes after the ceremony and went into a private room that their reception venue set up for them while the guests were still at cocktail hour. They ate dinner during the last half of cocktail hour and their coordinator transitioned the guests from cocktail to dinner and then went to get my cousin and his wife so the bandleader could announce them. They immediately did a first dance since everyone was seated and did the parent dances then after the dances, dinner was served and they did table visits.

Me venue served us salad first, so we ate those quickly and then started making our rounds before the main course was served. They held our main course for us until we were done with the rounds and then we ate that as everyone was finishing up and MOH/BM did their toasts. It worked out really well, but I did have to rush H a little because he could have stayed talking to some people all night and I was determined to make it around to everyone.

We were served first, by about five to ten minutes. It allowed us to be able to eat. We also waited until we could see the guests were almost done with their meal to visit. I didn't want to interrupt their dinner.

We're doing a receiving line at the church before heading to the reception venue, so that will cut down on that table visiting time (I know those are unpopular here). We plan to enter the reception, welcome everyone, and immediately go through the buffet line. The guests will go through after us. We are doing speeches during/after dinner and then dances and cake cutting.