Post wedding breakfasts and feeding the (hungover) 5000
It is no surprise that I don’t really have any photos of the Sunday morning following the wedding - aside from a blurry photo of some hot cross buns with candles in, and some cute ones of my nieces together.
Our venue recommend the local campsite for a caff and a bacon butty but we decided to put on a proper full English breakfast as we had so many people staying on site, and actually a load of guests who’d gone home came back for it too.
Even though I don’t drink, I definitely had an overtired hangover and I managed surprisingly well on 4 hours sleep, getting up at 8am to start tidying up the barn ready for the crowds of hungry zombie guests making their way down the farm track hungry for a hangover cure.
Farmers Pantry completed 3 fabulous days of food, laying on a huge spread of full english goodies and vegan alternatives and yet again, I had about two mouthfuls but some people even had seconds so can’t have been that bad at all. We laid out tables and chairs from the night before and everyone queued up in their coats and wellies for big plates of grub and we had self service juice, teas and coffees too.
It was my Mum’s 61st birthday on the Sunday so me, Jos and my niece surprised her with a big plate of her favourite Waitrose hot cross buns with a few candles in ready for her to blow out, and our entire guest list got on board with an impromptu rendition of Happy Birthday.
The breakfast for me went by in a blur, I spent the time people were queuing for their breakfast boxing up the leftover cake for people to take home and by the time I sat down to eat my nieces needed something and by the time it was dealt with, people started to leave and I had to do a lot of mingling. After lots of hugging, lots of goodbyes and lots of packing up, everyone left and we celebrated my Mum’s birthday before heading off ourselves - and I had my first real meal of the weekend, a McDonalds chicken nuggets meal on the way down to Cornwall.
I think a breakfast is a great way to end your wedding, even if you’re not laying it on yourselves or paying for it for your guests, just meeting up somewhere and having a good hearty meal before all parting ways is a really nice way to finish. It allows you to debrief the day before, catch up with anyone you didn’t get the chance to catch up with, say goodbye to people you didn’t see leave last night and enjoy the last few moments of all being together.
We did ours at 10am which was the time we’d had breakfast as guests at the last two weddings we went to and it works really well as a time - not too early that your guests won’t wake up but not too late that you run the risk of not checking out on time. Everyone bar four made it back for breakfast and we loved having a good 60 odd of our nearest and dearest back with us curing a hangover and celebrating us one last time.