Wedding invite

I think this is a spoof

*pascal30

I think this is a spoof*

Why do you think that?

I would go to the ceremony and wedding breakfast and leave early - they are the best bits of a wedding.

It's usually relatives and very close friends invited to the ceremony and breakfast, with extra friends sometimes invited just for the disco part. The bride and groom may be offended if you don't attend the ceremony to share their special moment - even if no offence was intended and you're delighted to share the rest of the day with them. They may feel there were other friends they could have had there instead, if it didn't seem important to you to attend the ceremony. For their sake - I would go to the ceremony and leave whenever you get tired in the evening.

Go you will regret it if you don’t. I am 69 and we went to our oldest friends’ son’s wedding in June 2022. Ceremony at 12.30 much the same as what you describe. Plus a live group and a disco…I LOVE a disco ! We stayed in the hotel the ceremony and party was taking place in the night before and the night of the wedding too . It was fantastic and well worth the cost. We laughed from when we arrived until we got home. Wonderful wedding. You should go.

Surely the most important thing is the ceremony? You can pace yourself through the wedding itself and the photos, enjoy food and then slip away before you get too tired. I'm sure they would understand that.
Usually family and closest friends are invited to the breakfast and other friends to the evening party, so I would regard it as an honour to have been invited.

You are there to witness their marriage, as someone said, and, in gratitude, they invited you to share their meal. It would be terribly rude to skip the important part, and just show up for food, drinks, and dancing. As I tell my grandchildren, it's about the marriage, not about the wedding.

I think it would seem rather rude to opt for the eating and social part of the day whilst excluding the most important part - the wedding ceremony.

If it were me, I would just leave the evening event early.

Ysiad....It seems theres a long time gap between ceremony and wedding breakfast,even allowing for photos.The guests will be hungry and thirsty! I would go to the ceremony then have a flask of tea/coffee and some biscuits in the car on the way to venue.

Ysiad doesn’t seem to be responding to this thread!

Quite...