wedding breakfast

British

noun

the meal usually served after a wedding ceremony or just before the bride and bridegroom leave for their honeymoon

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During the wedding breakfast, Mother Fox, dead more than seven years, showed up in spirit to speak to her new son-in-law, “expressing her approval of the marriage.”

From Literature

Ms Francombe said a couple might use a floral arrangement for the registry part of the day and then move it to where the wedding breakfast was held, to get the most out of one display.

From BBC

She ranted: "Where you going to have the wedding reception? On the log flumes? And what's on the menu for the wedding breakfast? Hot dogs and candy floss?"

From BBC

The ceremony was conducted by a railway chaplain, and a wedding breakfast was served in a Pullman car.

From BBC

Leah Anderson and Vince Smith had the ceremony and even a wedding breakfast on the Great Western Railway service on Friday.

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