The
Victorian Wedding Breakfast: The
wedding, or formal official breakfast, is a stereotyped affair, cast
in the moulds of the confectioner and restaurateur. It is little else
than the fashionable ball supper, lighted up by day instead of gas
light, and is composed, like it, of stewed oysters, galantines,
mayonnaise of fowl, cold game, ices, pyramids, and all the knickknackeries
of confectionery. 
The
guests take their places with all the ceremony of a formal banquet.
The bride and bridegroom always have the precedence in the procession
to the refreshment-room, and others take their position according
to rank and age. It
is customary for the married pair to leave, on the day of marriage,
for a tour, and remain absent for a week, ten days, or even more.
from:
"The Bazar Book of Decorum.
The care of the Person, Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonials."
1873
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