Wedding Accessories Knowledge Base - What is a Wedding Breakfast?
A wedding breakfast is a dinner given
to the bride, bridegroom and guests at the wedding reception
that follows a wedding in England or New Zealand.
While not normally a morning meal, the
name apparently arises from the tradition that the bride
and bridegroom would have been fasting before the wedding,
and so the reception would be the time when they would break
their fast. Another theory on the origin of the term is
that the wedding breakfast is the first meal of a couple's
married life, just as breakfast is the first meal of the
day.
