It’s a wedding genie. Where are you? I mean, if there was a wedding genie, we are going with a late night snack. Let me tell you, your guests love food. And when they walk away from wedding days, that is one of the top things they remember is what did we eat? Was it hot? What was it like? What is that experience? So if we can leave them with an ending experience to be hey, what if it’s an ice cream truck? What if it’s a taco truck? What if it was like grilled cheese? Or what if you went to a special college or school and your late night snack was that particular thing that your college friends would remember? Go with that. Always go with the food. I mean, gift bags is a good idea, but to walk away and say I had an in and out burger from when we were in college I’m just saying late night snack it is.

OOH, honey, a wedding genie giving away $5,000. Sign me up. Now, what to do with that $5,000? In my personal opinion, I would go with experiences over things. So the question is fun experience, late night food or welcome bags for your guests. Now, in my experience, things like favors and items that are personalized to your day, eaten name your guests don’t really care for. We pack up 80% of them at the end of the night, and they don’t take them home. So I am all about a fun experience, something memorable that they will enjoy and remember about your wedding. So whether that be a fun food cart, maybe it’s cook on site donuts, or an ice cream cart, a coffee bar, something that is edible that they will enjoy and remember. Or a fun experience like a live painter, a build your own bouquet or your own flower crown bar. Some sort of experience that your guests are going to get to either eat and enjoy or make and enjoy or experience and enjoy, whether that’s a performance. Maybe. Maybe if you’re having a luau, you have dancers or to nicoline. I would definitely go experience in food over items, if you will.

Okay, so 1000% late night snack. And this actually comes from my years having been a bartender as opposed to my 14 years as a wedding photographer. I’m Libby Dollar, by the way. But the late night snack served well after dinner but kind of right before people are getting ready to leave. It’s actually a safety issue. So go. There are only two things that can make you less drunk and one of them is time. And the other one’s food. And you only have as much time as you have with your venue. But if someone gets too drunk and I’m not talking about too drunk to drive hopefully that’s already part of the plan. And there’s a shuttle or you’re encouraging people to Uber or it’s in the hotel where you’re getting married or whatever. I’m talking about the kind of drunk where people make poor life choices and the kind of drunk where people ruin friendships. All of this stuff happened to wedding. I’ve seen it. I’ve also seen people light people on fire with sparklers from sparkler exits which are a terrible idea. But that’s a whole other video. Give people food at the end of the night, you will not regret it. They will not regret it. The calories don’t matter. Just soak up that alcohol.