What is a pot luck wedding?

Question

This was inspired by other question I saw here.

Answer 1

its when everyone brings a dish of something to eat and you do like a buffet thing...... totally hickish.....

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Answer 2

instead fo a gift each guests bring a dish for the wedding reception dinner.

Answer 3

It can mean a couple of different things. I have attended weddings where, like a potluck dinner, everyone contributes something. Decorations, music, entertainment, photos, video montages, etc. Or it can be a potluck reception, where everyone brings a dish to share. I have seen it done where people bring whatever they choose, or depending on the 1st letter of the last name, you bring an appetizer, salad, meat, bread, vegetable or dessert item. It is also a tradition in some southern parts of the US, when the reception is open to the entire community, all you do is bring a food item to share.

Answer 4

That was my question and I can help you.

It is a wedding where the bride and groom ask the guests to bring a dish of food ( dessert, salad or entree etc ) to the wedding reception.    I got a invite to one and my sister in law is planning on having one next year.

Answer 5

Any "pot luck" event is one where each guest brings a dish to share.

Many people consider this traditional at weddings.  You'll see some answers that call it "tacky", but in truth, this is how weddings have been held for centuries.  IMO, anyone who wants to go to a wedding, but is offended by being asked to bring something is the tacky one...it's supposed to be about celebrating the marriage, not about getting free food & drink.

Answer 6

A potluck meal is when each guest brings a dish.

It’s actually common in some cultures, but in others would be considered rude.

Answer 7

In todays economy,it's when people of both sides of the families brings a dish where the guests will do a buffet line . It's cheaper than hiring a caterer. And besides,nothing brings folks together than a meal.

Answer 8

It's the same as a pot luck dinner everyone brings a dish to pass and hopefully everyone doesn't bring the same thing

Answer 9

it is when the guests are expected to each bring food for the reception.  

i suppose people who have no money would ask the guests to bring the food for their reception with them.  seems strange that they could not get their own parents or families to make and bring enuf food without resorting to having the guests bring food also.  

no matter how logical it may seem to a bride to ask people to do this ( if she and her own family do not)  in most places it is considered mindbogglingly rude and ignorant for a bride to resort to doing this.  

this has been asked here before and many people answered that they would not attend or send a present to a wedding where they were  expected to help cater the reception in addition to getting dressed up, buying a gift, taking their valuable time to attend, get sitters, all the other things they have to do to attend, to have to  bring food for the reception is going too far for most people.  

however, if this is the quaint custom in certain chruches or very informal or casual circles, that is different.  i am talking about a real wedding with a real reception where the bride and or her family are just too cheap and- or- ignorant of etiquette  to actually cater their own wedding.  the guests catch on to these kind of pot luck weddings and are greatly offended.  i assure you.  

a doctor once tried to have one in my town.  he could well afford a simple meal for his guests.  people were so offended, ( he charges huge money for his professional services and now wants us to bring a casserole to his wedding!)  that it was the talk of the town and i dont mean in a good way for a long time.  most people did not attend.

Answer 10

Its where all the guest bring dishes for everyone to eat instead of catering or having a set meal

Answer 11

I think doobies,  brownies,, and a bong

Answer 12

It would be one where each guest brings a covered dish... (for the reception)

Answer 13

A very bad idea.  It is essentially when you have your guests bring a covered dish (food/caseroles) to your wedding so that there is an assortment of miscellaneous food items of which the bride and goom do not pay for.  It is tacky and NEVER a good idea.  If you can't afford an elaborate wedding, only invite 25 of your closest family and friends and treat them to a decent meal.  They are supposed to be your guests....and you are supposed to treat them as such.  You are not supposed to invite them, have them show up, bring a gift and bring their own food.  This would not be a classy, elegant wedding.  If you did this, you would definitely need to have banjo music playing the background to help set the mood.

Answer 14

It's like all other weddings, you marry someone you think you know, meet the real person sometime later and then it's "pot luck" if you can live with them.

   Oops gotta run we're all out of BITTER at my pity party!