Wedding breakfast - probably comes also from the church tradition. Within most traditional church weddings, the couple would have Holy Communion as well as the marriage rite. There's a now-obsolete rule saying that you don't eat from the start of the day when taking Holy Communion. Once you have taken communion, you can then break your fast, hence the wedding breakfast. It's now almost entirely an anachronism, and it's a long time since I actually saw a wedding where they seriously described it as a wedding breakfast.
Hats - This is still a widespread disease, and will tend to vary from family to family. I go to many many weddings, and you quite often find one half of the church almost hatless, and the other half of the church all hatted! Expectations vary, but as a coarse rule, the posher the wedding, the more likely hat-wearing is. Likewise morning suit for the men - some families I know, every male attending the wedding will turn up in morning suit, and every woman will wear a hat. It's much more formal than most. The immediate wedding party would usually involve women wearing hats, but no-one is going to mind in the slightest if your family choose not to - it's all down to personal choice now. :)
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probably comes also from the church tradition. Within most traditional church weddings, the couple would have Holy Communion as well as the marriage rite. There's a now-obsolete rule saying that you don't eat from the start of the day when taking Holy Communion. Once you have taken communion, you can then break your fast, hence the wedding breakfast. It's now almost entirely an anachronism, and it's a long time since I actually saw a wedding where they seriously described it as a wedding breakfast.
Hats -
This is still a widespread disease, and will tend to vary from family to family. I go to many many weddings, and you quite often find one half of the church almost hatless, and the other half of the church all hatted! Expectations vary, but as a coarse rule, the posher the wedding, the more likely hat-wearing is. Likewise morning suit for the men - some families I know, every male attending the wedding will turn up in morning suit, and every woman will wear a hat. It's much more formal than most. The immediate wedding party would usually involve women wearing hats, but no-one is going to mind in the slightest if your family choose not to - it's all down to personal choice now.
:)