Day After Wedding Brunch, Who's Paying?
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I want to have a wedding weekend in Las Vegas. Our wedding is Saturday Night, and a welcome Barbecue on Friday afternoon when our family gets in. and on Sunday Morning we wanted to invite everyone to a Brunch Buffet by leaving their invitations in a nice envelope at their seats or on nice tags (or those magnetic bumper stickers) on their car.
We won’t be able to pay, not after the wedding, welcome barbecue, and the rehearsal dinner game night for the bridal party and our younger cousins…
Will they expect us to pay? I put on the wedding website "Please check the restaurants website for pricing information"…
Should we just forget the idea, and get someone to deliver donuts to their rooms with a note the day after?
If you can’t pay, I’d stick with the doughnuts. That’s actually a nice gesture. You can’t include anything as part of your wedding where guests are required to pay.
However, there’s another option that might work if this is just family. It’s a bit dicey, but you could "pretend" that it’s an impromptu type thing and get someone close to you to "pass the word". Chances are you may not get everyone, but an impromptu get-together is different. People use this sort of thing when they have receptions in restaurant rooms and then want to put together an informal group to go dancing or barhopping afterwards.
I would just leave it alone. If I received an invitation to this, I would assume that it was being paid for.
I’ll bet there’s at least a few people that will assume the same thing. So, unless you are willing and able to pay for this, just leave it alone.
On Sunday Morning you want to invite everyone to a Brunch Buffet, then it is your responsibility to pick up the tab for that meal.
If I got an invitation for something wedding-related like this, I would assume the couple (or someone other than me) is paying for me to attend.
What you can do is spread the word (verbally, not in a written invite) that the bride & groom will be going to brunch the day after the wedding at XYZ Restaurant at X Time and if anyone wants to come along at their own expense that they are more than welcome to join you – - and just let you know so you can be sure to get a large enough table.
If you invite people to a wedding brunch, then you need to pay for that. You can mention that you are going to breakfast at a specific place, but you’d need to mention it casually and don’t put expectations for people to go.
Stupid question…but does the hotel where you are staying offer free breakfast? You know how some hotels have a breakfast bar. When we got married, the hotel where all of our out of town guests were staying had a free breakfast bar. So…in the gift bags, we included a welcome packet that had a schedule of, events. On the schedule of events, it had us being down in the breakfast room from 7 – 9 am. And since it was something that the hotel offered for its guests…it was free to us. Thank goodness because there were 60 of us at the hotel. LOL.
Otherwise…if your hotel does not have a free breakfast bar…do they have some space that you could utilize…like by the pool, breakfast nook, etc. You can tell your guests that you will have something in there and bring in doughnuts and OJ…and hang out with them there.
Don’t invite people to events you can’t afford to pay for.