If You Had a Bris for your Son...(or if you've been to a lot)

did you have it at the "typical" time - in the morning or did you have one in the afternoon?

Did you serve "typical" bris food - bagels, lox, etc?

Have you attended a bris that wasn't in the morning? What type of food was served?

Thanks!

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I can't remember and Mason is only 7.5 mons old so it wasn't that long ago. I want to say around 1 PM ish... We're not Kosher, but we did have it catered by a Kosher deli since it was a Bris. Deli meats, rye breads, also bagels and different salads... tuna, egg, etc.

I think we did it when the Moyle was available

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typical

morning

morning- bagel, lox, etc..

yes, I have been to afternoon and they served kosher deli it was at 5:00..

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Thanks, ladies. It is difficult to know how much to order because it's not like you have an RSVP list and know exactly how many people are coming? If we have one (we're team green), I know it will be relatively small, but if a lot of friends from my job and my mom's friends from her job (she works at a Jewish nursery school so I can see a lot coming) suddenly come, it will def jump the number.

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ours was at the temple at 3pm...only because that was when the mohel was available. we had bagels, lox, tuna, white fish, egg salad and cookies.

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both of my nephew's were in the afternoon. You have to do what is convenient for both your family and the mohel. He may have other bris's that day and need to juggle... he can't control when the babies are born either.
Important family members will be there no matter what the date and time, and everyone else, I hate to say it, really doesn't matter!
My sister only "invited" immediate family - she wanted it small and intimate.
I recommend ordering from a kosher deli wether you are kosher or not - it can't hurt, and use paper plates/silverware.
Definitely over-order, and you can send family members home with sandwiches/bagels,etc if there are leftovers. I didn't object to having lunch/dinner for a couple of days after my nephew's bris.
And definitely research mohels before hand. Once you pick one, you call him when the baby is born and work out the date and time.

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Thank you! Yes, I've already done the Mohel research and have two numbers and names already packed in the hospital bag, ready to go! If we do end up having a boy, I think I will delegate the bris responsibilities to my mom - it will be at my house, but I will let her deal with all the food ordering and stuff because I'm sure I'll have a lot of other things on my mind - lol!

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We have a ranch house so unfortunately, I can't get away too privately from guests, but I'll do my best - lol. Yes, I was def planning on ordering kosher (even though we're not.) We're in FL, so it's not going to be a huge amt of family or friends - if we were still up in NY, it would be a lot bigger. But, like I said, depending who comes from work will make the difference. I have no prob feasting on Jewish deli for a few days afterwards!

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First of all, mazel tov! I can't believe you are nearing the end already!

DS1's bris was at 3:30 PM on a Sunday (it was opening day for the Jets - I DO NOT recommend that time on opening day of any local sports team ). We did it based on the time the mohel was available. We did Deli platters and wraps (meat).

DS2's bris was during the week and we had it at 10:30. Since DS was a NICU baby, we had an extra week to plan the bris - a bris is done a week after he is released from the NICU - so we did it at a time that was convenient for us . We also did meat for that one too (called for 10:30, started at 11, at around 11:45)

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I've never been to a bris that wasn't in the morning. In our family, they are either EARLY, EARLY, EARLY so people can go to work, or if it happens to fall on a Sunday, 11:00am.

Order more than you would expect, and then you can always bring food home which is always so helpful and good to have when you have a newborn in your house!

Message edited 1/14/2010 9:05:35 AM.

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most of the bris' that I've been to have been in the morning, that being said, I was at a bris that was at 5 PM and they served a lot of israeli food (it was an israeli bris) salads, hummus, pita, falalfel, fish etc....


The morning ones have always had the staple breakfast foods

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I think it depends-- but usually around "brunch" time...

Although I did have a friend who did it on the early side to deter people from coming since both her parents and IL's like to invite EVERYONE...

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I think ours was around 12 or 1. It was during a huge snowstorm too. We had the typical bagels and lox.

ETA: It was on a Sunday and everyone was coming from out of town.

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Thanks again!! I'm getting hungry for deli as we speak! I think I might have to have some this weekend if I'm not in the hospital

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DS bris started at 9:30am. We served bagels and lox, etc after. Best of luck to you!

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we did it mid-morning and had breakfast type foods (bagels) and lunch-type finger foods (hors d'oeuvres).

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DS's was in the morning and we had bagels, lox, tuna, white fish salad, egg salad, a couple of whole fishes, salad, fruit, rolls, multiple desserts, punch, soda...

I have never been to a bris not held in the morning.

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Bris before noon = bagels, lox, dairy

Bris after noon = deli

I have been to many and both kinds.

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You can have a Bris at any time but I believe it's most typical in the late morning. Ezra's bris happen to fall on erev Rosh Hashanah so we had to have it early so people could get home to prepare for the holiday. It was at 11am at my parents house (did not want to have to clean and prepare my house, was way too exhausted for that), and we served lox and bagels from Bagel Boss (we are kosher to begin with). If you are having a Bris later in the day I would serve deli.

Congrats and Good luck!

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Michal, my nephew's bris last year was in the morning and afterwards, they served breakfast foods, dairy, fish-things like that.

If you have it in the afternoon, you can do deli from Toojays-that was what we were thinking of if we had a . There is a pretty good bagel store on Powerline and Camino-Nestors. And Flakowitz on 441. They all have catering menus and it seems that afternoon would be deli.

ETA-ugh, I just realized all of these are kosher style!

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I was on team green but we had a few mohls lines up. We ended up having ours at 6:00 pm on a thursday. We had kosher deli and it was great. I had a friend that had one at this time and thought it was so great so people can come after work...