<p>That reminds me of an andouillette sausage I bought and cooked in France to cook with beans, sort of a cassoulet. I seared the sausage, then sliced it on the diagonal. Out sprang pieces of lung and offal. ARGH! Sorry to be a wuss, but I just could not eat it.</p>
<p>I gotta say, my boyfriend is even pickier than I am and I can understand wanting to tell someone to suck it up rather than try to cater. There are so many meals that I ADORE that are really some of my favorites that I just never get to eat anymore because he won’t touch them, and with only the two of us it seems like a waste to go to the effort to make it just for me. I am hoping when we have kids I will train them to like all my foods and he can make peanut butter sandwiches. 
My mom tried to only cook things that we’d all eat and I think to this day she resents us for making her go all 31 of her years as a parent without ever laying eyes on a pork chop…</p>
<p>I like almost everything-opposite of picky eater, though I can’t say I’ve tried really out there foods that make TV shows for their uniqueness like chocolate covered crickets or half alive seafood items. But I’m usually game for anything.</p>
<p>When D1 was a toddler, still eating in her high chair, she was trying to tell me something she wanted to eat. DH and I were almost frantic, just for the fact that we could not understand her. She was in tears, banging on her tray, saying bahki bahki bahki!!! </p>
<p>Over and over again. Bahki bahki bahki! We would hold out a cracker. Smash! It went to the floor. Mashed potatoes…I think DH ended wearing them all over his new business shirt. Remember, she is a toddler, just being introduced to new varieties of foods. </p>
<p>Finally, I looked at my plate… and DH’s. Fish, rice, and…broccoli. I held it out to her. Do you mean this? Broccoli? Smiles. Bahki bahki bahki! </p>
<p>She ate it and has loved it ever since. She, like her Mom, is very adventurous with respect to trying new foods. </p>
<p>And still loves broccoli. D2 came around, and about the same age, I offered her broccoli. I think it ended up all over my face.</p>
<p>Sigh…</p>
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<p>lol I would love to see this study. I’m a picky eater and just recently told my wife jokingly that the reason I’m so picky is that I must have enhanced taste buds and know more than those that can eat anything what does and does not taste good…</p>
<p>Recent research has focused on uterine exposure to various tastes influencing food preferences after birth. </p>
<p>[Some</a> Tastes Develop In Utero - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/05/10/some-tastes-develop-in-utero]Some”>http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/05/10/some-tastes-develop-in-utero)</p>
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<p>Many lived nearby, so for them it wasn’t a big issue. Some went to a bar. Frankly, I really don’t know what everyone else did. I had so many challenges with this wedding (for example: brides family was here from another country and didn’t speak the language - we had a translator), that I just gave up on this one. I was simply out of ideas as was everyone else (bride & groom, my DH). Pictures needed to happen between the wedding and the reception. </p>
<p>We were not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings. It wasn’t that we didn’t care. There simply wasn’t a good solution that we could think of. We asked if the reception hall could be opened earlier for the guests, but that was not an option. </p>
<p>What does anyone do when there is time between to events. You just kill time. I don’t know that there is always a good solution. I personally would have looked for a local library and gotten cozy with a book.</p>
<p>I went to a wedding a few years ago where here was a 3 hour gap between the ceremony and the reception. (Time gap resulted because the Catholic Church where they had the ceremony didn’t do any weddings after 2 pm). H and I attended with a group of friends. All of us chatted for a while after the ceremony and then went to the resort hotel where the reception was going to be held and went to a bar set up on the lawn. We met several others from the wedding (who we didn’t know) and we all ended up sitting together and had a great time. </p>
<p>Was it rude not to entertain guests during that gap time as 50ish suggests–I don’t think so. Wedding are expensive and having to entertain and feed folks for 3 more hours would cost quite a bit. If I were the host, I probably would have given guests suggestions about what they could do between the wedding and the reception. The wedding I mentioned about was in Kennebunkport, ME–which is a resort town with all sorts of galleries, shops, restaurants, and bars. Lots of stuff to do.</p>
<p>I’m just rather amazed that people even have the kind of weddings where the location of the ceremony itself and the location of the reception afterward can have such incompatible schedules. Clearly, life is lived very differently in different parts of the country!</p>
<p>We went to one wedding where the ceremony was at 10:00 am. We figured there was not going to be a dance or much of a reception because there was nothing included in the invite. This town was about 2 1/2 hours away, VERY small town, pop. 500. We did not make hotel reservations because we figured we would just drive home. Turns out there was a lunch at the church after the wedding that ended at about 1:00PM. There was a social hour/open bar for SOME invited guests (none of the out of town guests were invited??) then a dance that started at 8:00 PM. It would have been nice to know we would have had to find a way to kill 7 hours in a town of 500 people…</p>
<p>*I went to a wedding a few years ago where here was a 3 hour gap between the ceremony and the reception. (Time gap resulted because the Catholic Church where they had the ceremony didn’t do any weddings after 2 pm). H and I attended with a group of friends. All of us chatted for a while after the ceremony and then went to the resort hotel where the reception was going to be held and went to a bar set up on the lawn. We met several others from the wedding (who we didn’t know) and we all ended up sitting together and had a great time. *</p>
<p>This happens a lot with Catholic weddings. Sometimes the weddings are at 10 am, noon, and 2 pm. So, if you do the 10am time, then you have a 11am-4pm reception. If you do the other times, then you have to stick with a few options: 1) have the reception later which can annoy guests or cause guests to skip the wedding and only go to the reception; 2) have the reception following at your home so the time doesn’t matter; 3) have the reception at a location that only hosts one event per day. </p>
<p>A newer trend is to have the wedding on Friday evening, and then the reception immediately follows.</p>
<p>I think it’s very poor taste to invite people to a wedding and then have 2 receptions…one cheapie one that everyone goes to and then a later one that only select people are invited to.</p>
<p>Bar/bat mitzvahs often have a time gap between the service/luncheon/reception and the evening party. My experience has been about 50/50 as to whether anything is scheduled to entertain guests in between.</p>
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I hate to say it, but the early receptions I’ve been to have been pretty boring. No one wants to start drinking at 11AM, or rocking the dance floor, and the food wasn’t as fancy.</p>
<p>So I can completely understand wanting an evening reception, even if you have to have the ceremony in the morning.</p>
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<p>Boy, is that the truth!!!<br>
After hosting 2 wedding in a year, my DH and I were really wishing that we lived in the part of the US where a ‘cake and punch reception’ is common! We live in ‘formal sit-down dinner reception’ territory and that’s brutal on a budget.</p>
<p>DH and I will be attending a wedding soon where the Catholic ceremony is at 3:30 and the reception starts at 5. Apparently, the MOB is very involved at the church, so she was able to get the most desirable time slot. So convenient!</p>
<p>My college roommates wedding (westchester co NY) was unusual to me, but common in her area. </p>
<p>Not many people went to the actual wedding, but they all came to the reception a few hours later. I can’t remember if she didn’t invite everyone to the service or if people just blew it off to go straight to the party :)</p>
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<p>Well, yes and no. Everyone has a choice to give in to that kind of situation or not. I can tell you that no weddings in 0ur family have been so rigidly structured or spread out. They tend to be moderately sized and fairly informal, and I live on a coast.</p>
<p>The story upthread about the neice who missed most of her reception for picture-taking??? That strikes me as kind of crazy–I mean, what’s important here: the experience of sharing with family and friends, or the record of posed shots. Clearly, that’s a matter of personal priorities.</p>
<p>garland, one gets the impression that for many people the pictures are the most important part of the wedding.</p>
<p>And I agree: it is hard to imagine that people are FORCED to give in to a huge gap in time. One could always move the wedding to the receptions site, for example.</p>
<p>Three hours of photos? Do them before. Quit watching the Wedding Channel. If the big “reveal” of bride and groom is important, schedule that photo shoot for before the ceremony. If bride or groom says, “but then we haven’t really taken pictures of the big moment”, point out that after photo one it’s all staged anyway.</p>
<p>Three hours of down time between ceremony and reception? please provide some ideas to fill the time…" folks who want to see ---------, please visit <a href=“http://www.com”>www.com</a>".</p>
<p>DH and I will be attending a wedding soon where the Catholic ceremony is at 3:30 and the reception starts at 5. Apparently, the MOB is very involved at the church, so she was able to get the most desirable time slot. So convenient!</p>
<p>While the MOB may have had some influence, it could also be because that parish may have a later Saturday Mass schedule. If they have a 5:30 or 6pm Mass, then the 3:30 pm wedding will be over in time for that Mass…especially if the wedding won’t be a Mass…if it’s just the vows, then it will be over within 30 minutes. </p>
<p>Notrichenough…if a daytime wedding is boring, etc, then the planners did a poor job. I had a 10am wedding and a 11am-4pm reception and there was lots of dancing, a normal amount of drinking, and good food (surf and turf). We then had a parents’ home reception for the evening, which was a more laid-back affair because we were flying out for our honeymoon.</p>
<p>We had an early afternoon wedding (pictures first), then we all went on to the reception at my house. Plenty of food, wine and beer, everyone invited. After about 3 hours, my husband couldn’t take it anymore, and decided we were leaving on the honeymoon right then (fine with me). The rest of them stayed till late at night…some even spent the night, and some family members decided to stay on for several days and borrow our car. They all had a fantastic time, with tomato fights, plenty of booze and lots of single, attractive men and women partying all night. I can’t imagine expecting a large group of people to just kill time after the wedding, waiting for the reception. Not an option.</p>
<p>Sorry I missed it, but at least they cleaned up after themselves and had a blast. What still amazes me, is that the entire wedding (including bridal gown, bridesmaids dresses, groomsmens tuxes, full reception including alcohol, flowers and pictures) AND the honeymoon (one week in Aspen) cost only $4500! You can go cheap and still have a great time back then, but now that might just cover the pictures and flowers.</p>