My vegan wedding
Okay, so I'm getting married (yippeee!) and a long time ago, my honey and I discussed that if/when we got married it would, of course, be a vegetarian wedding. She is omni and I have been veg for 12 years and happily vegan for the past 9 months. She is really supportive of the veg thing (we have never had meat in our house) but she finds my being vegan somehow annoying and she is hoping the faze will end. (I'm feeling better than ever and this is certainly no faze for me). Anyway, now I am really wanting a vegan wedding but she is all poo poo about it. Mind you, I do most of the cooking, so for the most part she eats vegan and loves it, so I don't get what the problem is. We are aiming for a very "green" wedding and I feel like appetizers formed by way of animal torture is not very green. Her whole thing is that I will probably be the only vegan at the wedding (as it has always been my whole life). So, my question to all of you is, how do I get her on my side of the vegan wedding argument.
Suggestions please!
Thanks
Freddi
A vegan wedding will be awesome! The food will be great and you will probably save money by not including meat and other animal products! if you are preparing the food yourself I would suggest getting a menu together and start feeding her the dishes you want to serve so she can taste how amazing they are--if your having it catered--sae thing! Once she tastes the food she'll come around :) And really, who cares if you are the only vegan? What? like everyone at the wedding is going to be prowling around freaking outtheres no meat or cheese tray? a lot of them probably won't even notice till the main course anyways!
And if that doesent sway her--check out Rose Chocolates--they do vegan chocolates and defintely have wedding packages! Maybe that will swing the vote your way :) :)
http://www.rosecitychocolates.com/vegan-chocolate-selection.html
Good luck and congratulations :)
You need to give her an idea of how tasty it's going to be so she doesn't feel like herself or her guests (probably her main concern) will be missing out.
VegNews recently ran an article about vegan weddings: http://www.vegnews.com/vegan_weddings_07.html
You can click on the links of the individual weddings and their menus.
Congratulations!
Capture gave you great advice. I agree about letting her taste the foods you plan to serve and really get her involved. The June 2008 issue of VegNews has a beautiful article on vegan weddings. The food looks fabulous! I believe they have past wedding issues too.
Great minds think alike Tweety, LOL! ;D
I love the vegnews wedding features. I have 3 issues that I have collected. (for a moment she said we could have a vegan wedding if I could get vegnews to feature us. :hrmm: ) Its weird, cause she KNOWS how good the food is. What I really need is to start talking to GOOD vegan catering companies in the San Francisco area. Perhaps I will post another thread about that! :)
You guys are great. Thanks for the support.
I am in the same situation as you. We haven't picked out the menu yet but we've so far settled on a vegan wedding cake and the dinner having vegan and omni options.
It looks like one of the couples in VegNews 6/08 issue was from S.F. They used Back to Earth for their catering and the cake. They are located in Berkeley. Here's the link-
www.organiccatering.com
my boyfriend and i have been talking about marriage and are of course going to have a vegan wedding. we're super excited about it, but i'm sure my omni parents and all our friends will be irked. no one supports our lifestyle except my mom and his mom, weirdly enough. everyone else thinks we're a pain in the ass, even if we bring our own food! oh well. they can eat our veg food and friggin like it, by goodness.