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Old 07-29-2010, 09:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Vegan/Vegetarian Weddings: Eat What You're Served?

So I stumbled across this piece about Chelsea Clinton's impending nuptials this morning. I normally wouldn't click on something like this, but the title lured me in.

Chelsea Clinton's Vegan Wedding - Slashfood

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Chelsea Clinton isn't tying the knot with her fiance Marc Mezvinsky until this weekend, but the wedding has already become the event of the year, at least by gossip-rag standards. Questions abound: Who's invited? (Hint: Not many.) What will she wear? (The smart money, as always, is on Vera Wang.) What kind of ceremony will it be, anyway? Thanks to the publicity-shy bride, there are few confirmed details. One thing's fairly certain, though: The caterers will accommodate the former first daughter's vegan diet.

Despite her father's famous predilection for fast food, Chelsea has reportedly been going meatless for more than a decade, even asking White House chef Walter Scheib to teach her to prepare her own vegan meals, according to the Vegetarian Star. By all accounts, Chelsea is a highly intelligent, ambitious woman who doesn't do anything halfway, and her kitchen training was no exception; she worked with Scheib for six weeks prior to leaving for Stanford, earning a "Walter Scheib cooking school certificate" at the end.

Consequently, "insiders" have told Life & Style magazine, the food for the big day "will include vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free dishes." (That'll put the caterers through their paces.) Lest anyone accuse Chelsea of being doctrinaire, however, the wedding menu will also please carnivorous guests. According to those same insiders, there will be a beef entree as well -- grass-fed and organic, naturally.
When I first clicked on the item, I was interested because I'm getting married in a month and we're planning on serving a vegetarian meal at our reception. I admit I was disappointed to find out that Chelsea would ultimately be serving meat at the reception. To me, our reception meal (spinach lasagna, assorted delicious salads, Mediterranean appetizers) is representative of who we are as a couple, and it consists of foods we enjoy (yum, hummus and tapenade). Sure, I eat meat, but my SO doesn't, and we agreed that we would serve a meal we were both comfortable with. We offered to let my father-in-law smoke something on his Traeger if he wanted (but we wouldn't pay for it), because almost all of the older folks in my SO's family doesn't understand vegetarianism (they're still mystified as to how we get enough protein to survive). My mother-in-law vetoed that and said the older folks could get along eating vegetarian for one day of their lives

So, would you be okay eating vegetarian or vegan at a reception? Do people really have room to complain about what is essentially free food?
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Old 07-29-2010, 10:36 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 07-29-2010, 10:46 AM   #3 (permalink)
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There is absolutely no way I would complain about food at a wedding, period. A wedding should be about the couple, not the guests. Complaining about free food when you've been invited to share in someone's day like that is tacky and rude.

From the other side, Eden and I went to my cousin's wedding in June. It was very casual, and the reception food was grilling/picnic stuff. I think I ate some mac & cheese and potato chips, and everyone else enjoyed burgers & hotdogs (there was also baked beans with bacon and maybe chicken? I don't really remember.) I still had a great time.
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Old 07-29-2010, 11:05 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Vegans and vegetarians appreciate good tasting food just like the rest of us. Meat isn't required to make a meal taste good, so having a completely vegetarian meal at your reception, no matter who is invited, is perfectly acceptable. If someone NEEDS meat in their free food, they have issues.

As far as the disappointment that Chelsea is having meat at her wedding, she probably has a different situation than us lay-folk... there's politics involved in her life, probably going to be some political people at her wedding, and politics when it comes to food is all about pleasing everyone, like a dignitary of sorts.

Congrats on the upcoming marriage, btw. =)
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Old 07-29-2010, 11:42 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Old 07-29-2010, 01:05 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I would hand-write them all a menu that ended with,
"and if you don't like it, stop at McDonalds on the way home."

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Old 07-29-2010, 01:12 PM   #7 (permalink)
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One of the best and most memorable meals I've had was at my best friend's wedding a few years ago. I received the vegetarian option, and it was a squash/turnip soup, salad, and probably the most delicious stuffed vegetable I've had: a full zucchini stuffed with what I think was some kind of savoury miso-based paste. It was fanfuckingtastic.

My SO won't eat beef served at weddings. So in two cases, I've received double beef portions.

Ultimately, people shouldn't complain about wedding dinners. It's bad form. But I can imagine people thinking, OMG where's the meat?!

It's like people complaining about a dry reception despite it being so because the bride's poor brother is a recently recovered alcoholic.
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Old 07-29-2010, 05:14 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I would hand-write them all a menu that ended with,
"and if you don't like it, stop at McDonalds on the way home."

Oh snap! I like it.
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Old 07-29-2010, 09:12 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I've been to everything from simple afternoon teas after the service to full on 'rolling drunk when finished' banquets. It is a wedding. Guests are there to help celebrate a very important event in people lives. I can't imagine anyone being affronted by what food is served.
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Old 07-29-2010, 09:14 PM   #10 (permalink)
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People complain. That's what they do. But they won't do it to your face.

The "where's the beef?!" people will grumble but still eat the "rabbit food."

I mean, I'd eat the hell outta your hummus.
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Old 07-30-2010, 02:19 PM   #11 (permalink)
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....My mother-in-law vetoed that and said the older folks could get along eating vegetarian for one day of their lives

So, would you be okay eating vegetarian or vegan at a reception? Do people really have room to complain about what is essentially free food?
I agree with your mother-in-law, except it should apply to any age. And it's not a whole day, it's only one meal! People should have no room to complain about a free meal, especially for a special occasion like this.
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Free food is always good. Anyone who grumbles should go fuck off.
There is an old -I think it's Finnish or Swedish- proverb that says: "Always taste good when cost nothing."

Like you say, the reception meal is representative of how you are as a couple. Right along with the style of the invitations, the place settings, and the wording of the ceremony, etc. This should certainly be a "Have it your way" kind of day.
Snowy, I'm a confirmed carnivore that decided to try your "Meatless Monday" idea, and stayed vegetarian for nearly two weeks. It was not that big a deal. The main things I sacrificed were some matters of choice and convenience. But that discussion belongs in another thread.

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Old 08-20-2010, 05:51 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I've been to plenty of weddings were I didnt eat because it was food I wouldnt probably touch unless I was starving on a deserted island. While I myself havent really had vegetarian food I like AND I have to watch things like spinach lasagne because I cant eat spinach, it would never stop me from going to the wedding, I would just make sure I had eaten before, and then after I would stop at waffle house (thats mine and Dave's "oh god we can't stomach the wedding food" traditional place to stop)

Its YOUR wedding, people are there to celebrate with you, food is secondary to the occasion
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Old 08-20-2010, 08:39 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Well, interestingly enough, we had some of our die-hard carnivore relatives try the spinach lasagna that is going to be served, and they were huge fans, snubbing the meat dish offered at dinner the same night for seconds of the lasagna! But yeah, Shani, you have health reasons as to why such a dish wouldn't be good for you to eat, and I would understand/respect that. There are 3 kinds of salads, French bread, and appetizers before dinner, so no one should go too hungry.
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Old 09-26-2010, 01:01 AM   #14 (permalink)
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At the end of the day, I wouldnt moan about it.

If I was just served some salad or whatever it wouldnt satisfy me, but its only one meal and I could just grab a burger on the way home if I was still hungry.
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Old 09-26-2010, 07:22 AM   #15 (permalink)
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We didn't have anyone complain or walk away hungry, that is certain, but we had quite a spread--appetizers, salads, bread, and an entree of spinach lasagna.

In fact, a couple people specifically commented on how the spinach lasagna was a great choice because it was satisfying yet had no meat in it.
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Old 10-01-2010, 02:58 AM   #16 (permalink)
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I don't think you have any right to complain about the food at a wedding! You are a guest who's been invited to join in when two people celebrate getting married and whatever food is served according to their taste, is something you have to accept. Even if you are a meat lover you can survive one dinner without it! It is probably only good for you.
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