To only serve vegan food at my wedding.

[inthewest]

My partner and myself are both vegan. We want to serve an only vegan menu from an excellent vegan caterer. I know people aren't a fan of "fake meat" and we've deliberately chosen to not have anything of that sort. Our menu will include many options and will cater to allergies and dietary needs such as celiac. The food is delicious, is very "us" and reflects us as couple.

We have had pushback from my partners family. Adult family. I'm fully prepared to cater for children but not adults. Our thinking is that it's one meal.

If I got married now there is no way I would serve meat at my wedding, it's against my beliefs. If anyone couldn't eat vegan for a day I wouldn't want them there.

@Hangingover

littlepattilou ....you sound nuts.

Nuts are vegan.

@JM10

If I got married now there is no way I would serve meat at my wedding, it's against my beliefs. If anyone couldn't eat vegan for a day I wouldn't want them there.

I would invite people I like and love. Not people who I insist share my beliefs.

They need to get over themselves, I'm not vegan but we do it vegan meals for over half the week.

Tonight we had giant beer battered mushroom burgers in tempura batter. Topped with vegan cheese and chestnut mushrooms stir fried in a little sesame oil and wild garlic. with salt and pepper chips on the side.

It was lovely, I fail to see how food like that wouldn't appeal to a lot of people. It's hardly above the norm. Yes, it's vegan, but it's not a pile of lettuce.

Your wedding your choice, they should respect and be thankful

@Foolintherain I would invite people I like and love. Not people who I insist share my beliefs.

And if folk love you they can manage without a chicken dinner at one single meal

Vegan cheese is horrible. Why put yourself through that if you are not a vegan?

Over 300 replies and the OP hasn't come back to respond to the frothing?

OP is probably laughing while drinking her vegan wine.

I love to cook, and to eat. I eat most things including meat. I am 'picky' about food but only in the sense that I want food to be fresh, well cooked and properly seasoned.

I have started cooking vegan food for our family dinners once a week as an effort to eat a bit more sustainably. There are bloody LOADS of great recipes. For example, I have cooked the following recently and they were very good:

• pasta with pureed baby peas, vegan pesto (like reg pesto but w lemon juice and a bit of parsley and no parmesan obvs), Roasted Peppers and roasted mushroom (sorry to the haters )
• spicy Japanese noodle soup with edamame and greens
• rice, bok choy and sesame carrots with Ginger and Shallot sauce and fried tofu
• tortillas with minced beans and onion cooked in paprika, cumin, coriander, garlic and tomato, with guacamole, tomato, lettuce and salsa.

Anyone who says vegan food is tasteless has no imagination.

I want to know what the menu is, although that's probably going to just be igniting it all further with cries of yuck that sounds pooey from some corners. Lol

I think people are complete CFs who complain about what they get a wedding. I am a vegan (wasn't at the time of my wedding) and most weddings I go to the vegan meal is maybe not the most exciting but I'm happy to be part of the special day. Its totally your choice.

Also, most sri lankan food is vegan (as it doesn't generally contain ghee or cream) provided it's cooked without Maldive fish. So curries with cashews, fried eggplant, pumpkin, beans, potato, lotus root, and lots of different salads and sambols...all really so delicious.

Sounds lovely! I'd go for it! As long as there is enough food for all, it's fine.

I'm as committed a meat eater as anybody - I hardly ever eat a meal without it (quick breakfast of cereal or toast, perhaps), and I'd be disappointed if I went to a wedding and found out the food was vegan. But littlepattilou's posts are making me cringe.

*Tonight we had giant beer battered mushroom burgers in tempura batter. Topped with vegan cheese and chestnut mushrooms stir fried in a little sesame oil and wild garlic. with salt and pepper chips on the side.

It was lovely, I fail to see how food like that wouldn't appeal to a lot of people. *

I wouldn't like that particular meal. I don't like mushrooms, sesame, chestnuts, beer or vegan cheese. I could eat the chips if they didn't have pepper.

pasta with pureed baby peas, vegan pesto (like reg pesto but w lemon juice and a bit of parsley and no parmesan obvs), Roasted Peppers and roasted mushroom (sorry to the haters

Isn't pasta made with egg? Or is there a vegan substitute?

Isn't pasta made with egg? Or is there a vegan substitute?

Only fresh pasta is made with egg. Dried pasta from the supermarket pasta aisle is just water and flour, so vegan.

@Ellmau

*Tonight we had giant beer battered mushroom burgers in tempura batter. Topped with vegan cheese and chestnut mushrooms stir fried in a little sesame oil and wild garlic. with salt and pepper chips on the side.

It was lovely, I fail to see how food like that wouldn't appeal to a lot of people. *

I wouldn't like that particular meal. I don't like mushrooms, sesame, chestnuts, beer or vegan cheese. I could eat the chips if they didn't have pepper.

pasta with pureed baby peas, vegan pesto (like reg pesto but w lemon juice and a bit of parsley and no parmesan obvs), Roasted Peppers and roasted mushroom (sorry to the haters

Isn't pasta made with egg? Or is there a vegan substitute?

Tends to be only fresh pasta. Most dried pastas are generally okay. I buy mine from aldi or Tesco and they’re never from the vegan section just the normal pasta section.

Isn't pasta made with egg? Or is there a vegan substitute?

I think most shop bought dry pasta is egg free nowadays

@Ellmau most dried pasta you buy at the supermarket has no egg and is suitable for vegans. I used this one. www.barilla.com/en-au/products/pasta/classic-blue-box/fusilli.

I'm too lazy to make fresh pasta for a weeknight meal I'm afraid

Pasta can be made with egg - but most of the stuff sold is just wheat.

Anyhow - as an omnivore, I can say if the food is good, and there is more than one option, I am happy. Nobody is going to starve. There's always going to be people unhappy.

But - wedding menus almost always reflect the cultural and other values of the marrying couple. It's not odd at all. And as the old MN saying goes, it's an invitation, not a summons. If someone can't go one meal without meat, they really don't have to.

We are a very meat eating family but when my cousin marrried an Indian lady the foood was fully vegan curries etc and it was amazing and don’t think most of the older guests realised there was no:meat . All amazing and total triumph so don’t be scared to go for your beliefs it really can wok brilliantly. Good luck

I would expect a vegan couple to serve vegan food at their wedding.

At the end of the day, you are inviting people to celebrate your wedding. Why bother inviting anyone if you want to impose your lifestyle to that extent? Why not get married in secret? Yes it's one day and I'm sure us meat eaters could cope but why not just try and accommodate everyone. Most meat eaters would accommodate vegetarians. Can't you afford the same common courtesy?

It's hilarious how offended people get by the concept of just eating plants for a day! I always feel sorry for people who are so limited that they can't manage a single day with something different from their norm.

I'm not vegan but wouldn't blink an eye at this. In fact, I bet it's a much more imaginative menu than most wedding meals I've been served. They always seem to center around a meat and two veg type meal with a generic sauce.