What's the worst meal you've been served at a wedding?

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I'm veggie so unfortunately have had my fair share of shitty wedding meals as the vegetarians often seem to get shafted but this one takes the biscuit. Fancy wedding, very expensive and exclusive venue, meat eaters had a feast and it looked amazing, I was served......a grilled mushroom, and it was cold. This place is probably £100 per head at the very least and the best they could rustle up for a vegetarian was a mushroom. So, make me feel better, what's the worst meal you've been served?
This is meant to be light hearted 🐱

And yes 100% what @Malin52 said.

It’s upsetting and a bit insulting to be asked to travel hundreds of miles, stay overnight, buy a new outfit and a generous gift and spent 10 hours at a wedding to be given one tiny glass of cheap wine and a few crisps.

Then be told you are ungrateful and entitled for being fed up and hungry.

You would be very welcome @IMOGEN! That is a pretty fair description of an Irish wedding I would say. As a nation we tend to over-cater for events, be they weddings, funerals, birthdays....As a coeliac I have occasional quibbles about the lack of imagination at mass catering events but hardly ever about the quantity. And as for the cake, it's often uneaten but not because it's made of foam (foam!) but because everyone is bloody stuffed.

Nothing outrageously bad like some on this thread but at the last wedding I was at I had a really boring chicken salad. Dry chicken on lettuce with a few other vegetables and barely any dressing. It wouldn't be so bad but I can imagine they paid a lot as it was a really fancy place.

For a comparison….

Queen’s garden party at Buckingham Palace a couple of years ago.

My son got an invite and took my DW as his +1.

He’s vegetarian and DW is vegan.

Absolutely no problem. As they got to the serving point they were asked what they’d like/dietary needs. The server then went to the back of the tent and gave then the appropriate , and decent, afternoon tea.

@GreyhoundG1rl

Also a sweet table (actual sweets and bags) supplied by my lovely DS1 and daughter in law Why? Why not concentrate on the actual food? Nobody needs a bag of sweets at a wedding, it's ludicrous.

This times a billion!

Please spend your food budget on actual food, not sugar & crisps.

We had a sweet table but it was in addition to an absolute ton of food. Canapés after the ceremony (which was at 2), three course meal, wedding cake and big cheese boards on each table for the evening (we didn't have separate evening guests so everyone had been fed during the day). The wedding finished at 11 so there was barely any time when there wasn't food available!

@Ddot

I dont eat meat and are so fed up with feeling second class, weddings, nights out, festivals, it was getting better till the vegans revolted. CHEESE LOVER HERE. Sorry not sorry.

I completely agree. Everywhere appears to have decided that vegetarian is the same as vegan and just do vegan only.

I tried to head this off at the wedding I went to by saying that I did eat meat but was not a vegan and I still got half a pepper stuffed with couscous.

@Surewhynot coeliacs have similar issues. Gluten free and vegan are often confused. If not then places deliberately combine all "free from" options into one. It's usually bland and soulless because everything that adds taste or texture is gone. Or alternatively ridiculously spicy to disguise its otherwise bland soullessness. On a side note if anyone knows of any gluten free cornetto style ice creams that are not vegan or gluten free honey nut cornflakes (must have nuts) please tell me!

[quote NotPersephone]@Surewhynot that’s exactly what I was trying to say when I got sidetracked into a discussion about whether cream belongs in risotto! I hate vegans for stealing the one dish on the menu that doesn’t have dead bits of animal in. And fuck off trying to fool us with all that “no cheese” lasagne BS - just give me the pissing bechamel and do one. [/quote]
❤️ Agree, I love dairy and it massively pisses me off when restaurants decide that the vegetarian menu is going to be roasted vegetable surprise with a side of boiled kale.

Jus5 fuck off and give me some proper food.

Shit.

Reading this thread has made me 😳

We are at a wedding tomorrow. Feels like it's about to be the world's longest wedding
as well...

Food choices were not good so am
worried .

I've picked the least 🤢 option.

@Burntfingerz

Shit.

Reading this thread has made me 😳

We are at a wedding tomorrow. Feels like it's about to be the world's longest wedding
as well...

Food choices were not good so am
worried .

I've picked the least 🤢 option.

Don't worry, there might be a sweet table. The shitter the food, the greater the likelihood they'll have tried to compensate with bags of sweeties

Always have protein bars in your bag

I'm at a wedding in January and I might eat before hand just in case now

We now make sure we have backup food and drink in the car. Just in case.

Hog roast - veggies were invited to have the (gross and very limited) side salads. One small bread roll each. Also zero non alcoholic drinks - not even water - I was pregnant and also a bridesmaid so felt a bit neglected.

I drove to the chippy and sat in the car cramming them in before anyone noticed I’d gone!

Made it worse that the bride had told me that she didn’t want to spend money on other people’s food. Who doesn’t want their guests to be happy?!

Went to a wedding many years ago.
They served salad as the main. I could see there was greenfly walking all over my lettuce.
I looked around and saw that everyone else was eating it. I felt a bit ungrateful for leaving mine.
I was only 10 and it was the 60's.
I don't remember much else about that wedding, but I still remember that!
🤮
Don't think caterers would get away with that now.

Made it worse that the bride had told me that she didn’t want to spend money on other people’s food.
So she only invited them for the presents? What a charmer.

@GreyhoundG1rl

Made it worse that the bride had told me that she didn’t want to spend money on other people’s food. So she only invited them for the presents? What a charmer.

I think it was more for the attention

@Cuck00soup and @GreyhoundG1rl . We are not wasting our budget on a sweet table. That part is being provided by my son and his wife. It's something they wanted to do for us.

We have a nice cold buffet (plenty to go round), a table of homemade sweet things/desserts and we will serve the wedding cake.

To me that sounds perfectly ok. One week to go and I'm looking forward to treating our guests.

I just hope neither of you are on my guest list

I’d love a wedding with a sweetie table, @ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands. Add in home made cakes and a buffet, and I’d be in seventh heaven!

Also vegetarian here. At my brother in laws wedding a few years ago the meal wasn't served until 8pm (ceremony was at 1pm, no fucking other food provided other than gluten free scones at 2pm!!) and it was a hog roast. The vegetarian option was vegetable kebabs. Literally just vegetables on kebab sticks. No protein, just vegetables and then some crap bread rolls. I was breastfeeding my then 9 month old and we were in the middle of nowhere and I was STARVING. I have never been to a wedding since without bringing copious amounts of snacks.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

I’d love a wedding with a sweetie table, *@ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands*. Add in home made cakes and a buffet, and I’d be in seventh heaven!

Thank you @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius . My fault for adding to the thread I suppose but I don't need the extra paranoia of now wondering if what we have provided is going to be good enough for people's expectations.

If your worried, make sure you have some yummy bread to fill up on. I'm not good with gluten but if I'm hungry sod everyone else cos I'm eating it and if I get wind it's tough 🤣

[quote DrCoconut]@Surewhynot coeliacs have similar issues. Gluten free and vegan are often confused. If not then places deliberately combine all "free from" options into one. It's usually bland and soulless because everything that adds taste or texture is gone. Or alternatively ridiculously spicy to disguise its otherwise bland soullessness. On a side note if anyone knows of any gluten free cornetto style ice creams that are not vegan or gluten free honey nut cornflakes (must have nuts) please tell me![/quote]
Oh god I hate that all the gluten free cornetto style ice creams are bloody vegan, I hate vegan ice cream, its sickly and horrid. I've resorted to making my own, buying gluten free waffle cones, melting some chocolate and dripping it inside the cone and then once its set, adding ice cream and sauce. Not quite the same and can never get the ice cream to go all the way to the bottom but tastes very good.