Wedding breakfast

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Entertainment at an English wedding breakfast. The organisers have hired two opera singers to sing arias during the meal, for the entertainment of the guests. The mother of the groom is being serenaded

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. This is consistent with the fact that in past centuries, England (as all of Western Europe) was Roman Catholic and the tradition of fasting before receiving the Eucharist at Mass would have been commonplace.

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.

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