A frustrated bride is at her wit’s end with her family’s objection to her vegetarian wedding menu. The family is objecting to there being no meat options for the wedding meal, leaving the bride upset. To make matters worse, they are joking about ordering KFC during the wedding reception, despite how much she spent on the catered meal.
The topic of a vegetarian wedding menu has become more frequent. Many people in the comments section of her post claim to have also had vegetarian or vegan wedding menus. They see it as a reflection of the couple getting married, which guests should accept.
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Posting her frustration in the Wedding Planning Reddit forum, the bride vented about her family’s objections to a meatless wedding. “Invites just gone out.. we’re having a vegetarian wedding… family member says ‘majority of guests will not be excited about your food choices bc its not meat’..,” she wrote.
“Sighhhh. So glad we’re spending £5K on food for you lot,” she continued with an eye-rolling emoji. Her wedding food budget is the equivalent of around $6,200. “We’ve tasted the food and it’s all lovely. I’m hoping people arrive and are pleasantly surprised.”
As if that wasn’t enough, she wrote that people invited to the wedding were “joking about ordering KFC to the venue.”
Many people were on her side, saying people ‘accidentally’ eat vegetarian foods often.
“People are just so rude,” someone commented. “I don’t understand why not having meat with a single meal is such a travesty. They need to calm down. And KFC? Seriously? That’s just gross, lol.”
Another wrote: “People who think they can’t go one night without meat are so insufferable. All you need is dietary restrictions – and I guarantee you that no one is going to respond saying ‘my doctor said I have to eat meat or else I’ll die’ lol.”
“I always find this take so perplexing….there’s ton of delicious vegetarian food out there!” someone else exclaimed. “I’m going to go out on a limb and say even omnivores like pasta, pizza, bake potato bars, stuffed mushrooms, salads, stir fries, etc etc etc. it’s not all tofu and mung beans!”
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After much asking, the bride shared her menu.
She edited her post to add what she was serving: Thai salad creamy mushrooms on ciabatta, as well as spring rolls and a caramelized onion and goats cheese tart for the appetizer. The main course is mushroom risotto roasted veg parcel with pesto salad tofu on wild rice. Desserts were typical, including “cheesecake/brownies/sweets/etc.”
The only place where they compromised on the vegetarian menu is the meal for children. “I understand that is a bit more difficult for them,” she wrote. She claimed to not “want any meltdowns” on the big day. Kids would be eating “chicken dippers” with veggie sticks and french fries.
People shared stories of their own vegetarian wedding dinners.
“I’m also having a vegetarian wedding and to be quite frank I couldn’t care less if my guests want to eat meat,” one bride to be wrote. “They can eat meat for literally every other meal of the year if they want. This is one single meal where they can make do without.”
“We’re having a vegan wedding and just not outwardly advertising it as vegan,” someone else wrote. “Anyone who has a problem with that can honestly just keep their opinions to themselves. Although we’ve also had one guy joking about ordering his own food to be delivered lol.”
Another bride shared: “Hi I had a vegan wedding! Some guests complained about it and made jokes about ordering pizza. After the wedding, all we heard was about how good our food was. Like we got married two years ago and people still talk about the food.”
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