Vegan weddings

[Tigerlily]

If you are in Australia

LOL. I will be now!!

[Mystic]

Add samosas to the entree/finger food too

We have looked at some cakes, and these are our choices:

- Jaffa Baci
- Citrus Coconut
- Date & Pecan
- Apple cake (apparantly it has a 1kg layer of apples on top)
- Festive apricot cake
- Upside down pineapple
- Vegan fudge brownies
- Raspberry & almond
- Chocolate (plain)

[DancingWillow]

your menu sounds fantastic! what a tough choice deciding which cake...they all sound sooooooo goooooood. is it possible to have each layer a different kind of cake? that's what i'd want for my wedding

[Wishin986]

- Jaffa Baci
- Citrus Coconut
- Date & Pecan
- Apple cake (apparantly it has a 1kg layer of apples on top)
- Festive apricot cake
- Upside down pineapple
- Vegan fudge brownies
- Raspberry & almond
- Chocolate (plain)

they all sound so good! ive only really had a vegan lemon coconut cake -- amazing, a chocolate cake w. pb frosting slice, and a chocolate cake w. apricot jam layer in the middle

i feel like any of those choices would come out great and incredibly yummy

[Mystic]

Oh we have already sorted the actual wedding cake - it will be chocolate. But those cakes are for additional desserts

I need to choose three and I cannot narrow it down!

[DancingWillow]

hmmm, i don't know...still a tough choice. i think my personal favorites would be:

citrus coconut
raspberry almond (although i'd prefer chocolate raspberry or chocolate raspberry almond)
date and pecan

what is jaffa baci? never heard of it.

[Mystic]

Jaffa baci is choc-orange with hazelnut icing.

[DancingWillow]

mmmmm, hazelnut icing...maybe i'd want this one to be one of my three...now i can feel your struggle to pick just three

[Wishin986]

ooh!

well then I vote:

citrus coconut
festive apricot
jaffa baci

though i know how much you love dates so for you i would say to switch in the date&pecan for one of them

[Tigerlily]

Add samosas to the entree/finger food too

We have looked at some cakes, and these are our choices:

- Jaffa Baci
- Citrus Coconut
- Date & Pecan
- Apple cake (apparantly it has a 1kg layer of apples on top)
- Festive apricot cake
- Upside down pineapple
- Vegan fudge brownies
- Raspberry & almond
- Chocolate (plain)

Date and pecan sounds good but might make your guests run to toilet the next morning if they eat too much.

My vote:

Vegan fudge brownies
Raspberry and almond
Citrus coconut

[fiamma]

Do they let you taste them all before you make up your mind?

[Mystic]

Maybe I should buy a slice of each and take them home to freeze and try as I feel like desserts?

[fiamma]

Haha.. sounds like an excellent idea! I wouldn't be able to choose otherwise. And you know you'll get something you really like.

[thecatspajamas1]

It must be so much fun to plan. I am going to have a vegan wedding, but my bf and I aren't engaged yet.

A vegan couple I know told me that they had a vegan wedding and the entree was a portabello mushroom dish. I'm thinking that for my wedding I'll have a buffet, and I want mixed food types, like some Indian food, some tofu, mock american foods, etc.

[Yogini]

A vegan friend told me today how she plans to handle her upcoming wedding reception. Her scheme is cunning and brilliant and would totally work with my family. Should I ever marry I'm stealing her idea (provided I can afford it.)

The reception will be vegan, but a buffet so the guests don't have to check off a "I want this meal" box when they RSVP. She's not mentioning to anyone but the sympathetic that the food will be vegan. The buffet will be kept concealed and the guests won't be served right away. However, there will be an open bar that the guests can drink at the second the reception starts. This way, by the time the food is served, they will be too drunk to care that there's no meat.

Like I said, this would totally work with my family. Get them liquored up and they won't give a rip about the food. Deny them alcohol, however, and there would be a riot.

[thecatspajamas1]

I want to have my wedding at Farm Sanctuary. Not only will the guests taste how great vegan food is, they will see the rescued animals and understand what veganism is all about!

[Yoggy]

Wow, what a great idea Cats!! And you're quite near a Farm Sanctuary too, aren't you?

I think my boyfriend and I will get married (that is, IF we get married ) in Quebec City, where he's from. I love it there soooo much! And I think I'll steal Yogini's friend's cunning buffet plan

[Photomuse]

Hi everyone, new here (NJ) and vegan for only 3 months. I have encountered weddings from a different viewpoint - I do wedding photography. Since I'm new to eating this way, I was totally unprepared for a recent 13 hour wedding and didn't bring enough food to eat. When the venue sat all of us down (the vendors) they gave us all the same dish with no choices - chicken with gravy/mushroom sauce, 2 (yes 2) carrots, spinach (when there was a spinach scare) and a salad filled with feta cheese.

I had only been vegan for about 1 month and had 4 hours of shooting left. I picked around the cheese on the salad, at my 2 carrots, ignored the spinach (even without the scare it was cooked beyond recognition) and sat there staring at the chicken. I eventually at half the chicken and felt terrible and watched my energy plummet immediately.

So now I make sure to pack my own meal when I'm shooting knowing I probably won't have many choices.

Nice to meet all of you!!

Kristin

[pavotrouge]

My congrats, too!

I've attended a vegan wedding last April and it was fab (except for the narrow-minded groom's family that had come over from upstate NY, but looking back, even that was funny).

They had a white coconut cake and the catering was all Indian (made sure without gee)- different curries, a huuuuge variety of chutnes, fruit sorbets and salads and so on... aaaaaaaah divine!

[Wildflower]

Add samosas to the entree/finger food too

We have looked at some cakes, and these are our choices:

- Jaffa Baci
- Citrus Coconut
- Date & Pecan
- Apple cake (apparantly it has a 1kg layer of apples on top)
- Festive apricot cake
- Upside down pineapple
- Vegan fudge brownies
- Raspberry & almond
- Chocolate (plain)

I would have the Jaffa Baci, Citrus Coconut and Raspberry and Almond. All 3 sound wonderful to me! A forth pick would be the Festive apricot...that is not too descriptive, but i really like apricots so I am sure it must be good.

[Bonobo]

Hey all!

Was just wondering if you guys had any easy, fun and yummy ideas for some vegan food at a wedding? We are getting married April 14th. Not all of the food will be Vegan as my soon to be hubby is a meat eater (although does eat less and less of it as each day passes), but I am thinking of having a buffet dinner and would love some easy to cook ideas! We will be preparing most of the food so EASY is very important!

Also, any vegan wedding cake ideas?

Thanks a bunch

[Cherry]

Hi Bonobo

Mr Flibble and my mum and I did the catering for my sister's wedding in September. We made:

Homemade bread
Vegan sausage rolls
Pesto and roasted vegetable tarts
Vegetable Chilli
Rice
Potato wedges
Pasta Salad
Green Salad
Avocado Salad with sunflower seeds
Veggie Jelly
Fruit - arranged into sculptures by my other sister Rosie
Peach and marzipan muffins
Lemon muffins

I made a rather large vegan chocolate cake for the wedding cake, with chocolate buttercream in between the layers.

Someone emailed me a couple of days ago to say that they were using my light carrot cake recipe for their wedding cake. I think you can just make a giant version of whichever is your favourite cake. Because sponge cake doesn't support pillars my sister got a stand with 2 supporting metal hoops that you put the cake board on top of.

[Bonobo]

Mmmmmm all sounds SO GOOD!

I actually checked out your website yesterday and was super excited to have found it. There are some beautiful recipes in there and I cannot wait to start using them!!

Thanks for the great ideas

Hi Bonobo

Mr Flibble and my mum and I did the catering for my sister's wedding in September. We made:

Homemade bread
Vegan sausage rolls
Pesto and roasted vegetable tarts
Vegetable Chilli
Rice
Potato wedges
Pasta Salad
Green Salad
Avocado Salad with sunflower seeds
Veggie Jelly
Fruit - arranged into sculptures by my other sister Rosie
Peach and marzipan muffins
Lemon muffins

I made a rather large vegan chocolate cake for the wedding cake, with chocolate buttercream in between the layers.

Someone emailed me a couple of days ago to say that they were using my light carrot cake recipe for their wedding cake. I think you can just make a giant version of whichever is your favourite cake. Because sponge cake doesn't support pillars my sister got a stand with 2 supporting metal hoops that you put the cake board on top of.

[Marrers]

Peach and marzipan muffins

Sounds very interesting - did you put bits of marzipan throughout the mixture?

[Cherry]

No probs Bonobo.

Yeh. It's the almond and peach muffins recipe on my site, modified to have chunks of marzipan instead of almonds (well flour instead of almonds, but extra marzipan). I created them when Mr Flibble was threatening to eat a whole block of marzipan in a state of cake deprivation Well, at least there's a bit of fruit in those

They worked really well tho (the marzipan goes melty )so we made some more for my sister's wedding.

[Marrers]

I'm with Flibble on that - I will happily chomp on marzipan blocks, but probably not a whole one in one sitting!

[Cherry]

Me too But y'know how you worry about people you love getting enough proper food, like muffins for example

Back to weddings - Here's a pic of the cake, with figures made by my sister Rosie. The little hearts were easy to make with melted chocolate, but tricky to stick on! The turtles are there cos Laura loves Montezuma's chocolate turtles, which were stuck on the bottom layer.

[twinkle]

That is ridiculously cute! I love the way lots of people made something for the feast - I think that's much more special than having it all catered by strangers

[Bonobo]

Cherry the cake is super cute and the figures are adorable!!!

I agree with twinkle, it is awesome how so many people contributed! That is definitely how it will be for us too

[Mystic]

I am getting married in four weeks and this is my menu (all vegan):

Entrees:
- Thai Spring Rolls
- Samosas
- Baby Dim Sims
- Rice Paper Rolls

Mains:
- Chickpea Curry w/ Jasmine Rice
- Thai Green Curry w/ Jasmine Rice
- Hokkien Noodle Veg Stir Fry

Desserts:
- Vegan Wedding Cake (Chocolate Mud)
- Raspberry & Vegan White Chocolate Muffins
- Coconut Jelly
- Citrus & Coconut Cake
- Bowls of Red Fruits

[twinkle]

Ooh, congratulations, stickydate! And that menu sounds absolutely gorgeous, I'm drooling over here

[Mystic]

Haha Thankyou!

[derwenna]

Congratulations on your wedding!

Some easy buffet dishes I've made that have gone down particularly well are:

Couscous and roasted vegetables (chop the roasted veg into little bits and mix in with a load of couscous - nice and colourful)
Avocado, tomato and vegan pesto & mayonnaise sandwiches on panini or ciabatta bread
Vegan sausage rolls
Waldorf salad with vegan mayonnaise

[Bonobo]

Picture Homer Simpson when he is drooling over doughnuts. That is me right now after reading all these yummy food ideas.....

On a side note, I bought La Dolce Vegan last night. Sarah Kramer is one cool chick! I also bought Becoming Vegan for the nutritional info.

[Guate_Vegan]

When I get married everything will be vegan, even down to the photographer! lol