Wedding menu

Make the food vegetarian, it’s your wedding, your paying for it, and if paying for/serving meat (grim) is going to put a dampener on you day, don’t do it!

Yes it is hard to cater for when you combine it with you don’t eat vegetables (except two), salads or carbs, plus you don’t eat onions, eggs, mayo, spreads… what kind of menu do you envisage that caters for your restrictions that also covers the more typical meals most people might want to eat? Do you expect a special meal with any kind of sides or you literally just eat the piece of meat or fish, ignore the rice or veggies or whatever it came with and consider yourself happy and well fed?

They were probably being polite.

Does everyone invited know you are vegetarian? We had meat options at our wedding because our guests' comfort was more important to us that day and we knew some people are funny about not having meat with dinner. Especially the children. It wasn't worth the risk/stress.

I'm a meat eater but I'd still enjoy a vegetarian meal at a wedding, and it would make total sense to me if the bride and groom are veggies. I do love my veggies and I think I'd love it. If you must eat meat have a burger or something when you get home 😆

I agree with @innerdesign ....its not the right attitude to say let them go to Macdonalds.

In fact I think that's really quite unpleasant

I think one meat option should be offered (and I'm vegetarian)

I know quite a lot of vegetarians, my DH is one. I know a couple of devout vegetarians who have 3 DC and believe none of them have ever eaten meat. They often boast about it. In fact the middle child regularly eats meat when out with his friends but pretends to his parents he ate a veggie option. I've seen him eating chicken nuggets and pepperoni pizza too. He's too afraid to tell his parents he likes meat. He's 13.

Blimey
Ive just looked at the prices pp.
Is £100/£120 per person really what people are paying these days.

off subject, I know, sorry

It is at a vegetarian wedding I’m afraid.

Luckily no one starves in a day OP
I’m sure there will be some people sit down to a wedding breakfast faced with something they don’t like,

Essentially people go to weddings to celebrate with their friends and family so I’m sure people will respect that.

Because vegetarians don't eat meat, but meat eaters can eat a whole range of foods that aren't meat.

I do eat lots of fruit. I've been to loads of weddings and usually eat chicken of some kind, beef, pork, lamb or salmon.

But I like several varieties of fish, most meat including steak, gammon, pork steaks and chicken, that's really not hard to cater for.

I feel like if you have an allergy and you're going to be eating at a wedding, the responsibility is on you to bring it to their attention.

We had a traditional type meal ( all veggie)
The so called stand in part was a filo pastry parcel , then potatoes and veg.

The children had a veggie pizza choice, just in case

We also had older relatives and my family are pig farmers from Ireland, all was fine.

No, why would I? I always eat meat and high protein.

My friends had vegetarian food at their wedding, no choice just set meals, which was fine.

But for years I agonised over the fact that I hadn’t given them a choice of vegetarian dishes at my own much smaller wedding.

I found their old wedding invitation and menu card last year, and realised my menu wasn’t bad at all, as there was no choice just a set meal too, on theirs

All that worry for nothing 🤣

So vegetarian is fine, no one will mind, I don’t suppose many people have meat every single day.

Although if you offered me some vegan meals ( thinking that awful cheese) I might not be so pleased 🤣

@imnewhere2024
I'm sorry but I think there should be a meat meal to cater for all, how would you like to go to a wedding where meat is all the couple eat, so say cause we eat it you have to it's ridiculous tbh.

I wouldn't be impressed by fake chorizo. In my experience, fake meats are horrible.
You've said yourself that you don't like them either, why on earth did you serve it?
There's plenty of lush vegetarian food options as you will well know. I think that's a rather strange thing to have done.

But it is your day.
Stick to your guns. The menus from your venue look lovely.

In my experience though, older family members are more likely to be bothered about the choices being pizza or pasta rather than there not being any meat.
It depends how old you're talkig about. My grandparents in their 90s would have struggled with that.

This made me smile, although sorry to hear of your allergy of course. I'm vegetarian and don't like mushrooms, we never cook anything with mushrooms at home as a result. I also have no issue eating out, it's easy to eat vegetarian meals out that don't include mushrooms.

Although you seem to have a highly restrictive diet given the long long list of foods that you don't eat so I think any wedding menu would be unlikely to be to your taste even if there was meat or fish involved in the main.

We are both vegetarian.
Family are all meat eaters
We have a few vegetarian friends.

our wedding meal and food in the evening was vegetarian only.

We married in 1998 and as it was our wedding we chose how we wished to celebrate….a celebration for us had nothing to do with animals being killed. These days I think more and more people are happy to try new foods so I really wouldn’t worry, no one’s going to starve because of one vegetarian meal

I would 100% serve veggie food. If people can’t eat veggie for one meal then they are extremely childish and not worth you worrying about.

I've never really eaten much veggie food but I would expect it at your wedding and I'm sure your friends and family will too.

Vegan would be a lot harder (though I'd still expect it) - but you should be fine. And it's your day and your choice.

My sister recently made a mushroom wellington which all her family loved, and as you say - there must be loads of pasta options. Many people might not even notice that there isn't any meat. Vegetable lasagne or moussaka, cauliflower cheese, stuffed peppers....hmm, I'm making myself feel hungry now.....

If anyone had the nerve to complain then they'd be totally CFs.......