Vegan Vows: A Yummy Cruelty-Free Wedding

Weddings inspire and delight. Starting with the wedding, a couple begins to build a beautiful life together. Planning a wedding can be stressful. Vegan couples are faced with the added challenge of both honoring their chosen lifestyle and pleasing guests. Wedding food can be as delicious and ethical as the event is beautiful.

Is it ok to serve meat at a vegan wedding?

Would you agree, that compromise is one of the keys to marriage? Probably the biggest decision for vegan couples is what to do about the food options. Should vegans serve meat out of deference to their wedding guests?

Last summer, Chelsea Clinton announced that although she was a vegan, she would serve meat along with vegan entrees at her wedding. At the wedding, a color-coded map indicating each guest’s dietary restrictions was provided. This ensured that no one was served something that he or she couldn’t (or wouldn’t) eat. Her choice to serve meat generated a serious amount of heat, not everyone agreed with her concession — “The idea that anyone would expect someone who was vegan to serve meat at their wedding seems absolutely crazy to me,” wrote one commenter on the Serious Eats blog.

One thing to consider if you hope to tie a cruelty-free knot and create a vegan wedding, is should you compromise your ideals as a couple? Whether you’re thinking of veganizing your wedding, or compromising to accommodate non-vegan guests, here are some ideas for creating a vegan wedding that will not disappoint:

Gourmet Vegan Wedding

Everyone loves great food.

Here is a list of vegan caterers throughout the U.S. from Rose Pedal Vegan Weddings.

Create your own vegan wedding food with these recipe choices.

The Wedding Cake

Vegan desserts generally please everyone. What ingredients go into a vegan wedding cake? Vegans do not eat honey, gelatin, or dairy. As Essell Hoenshell-Watson of Alternative Baker in New York says in a VegNews article, “The wedding cake is an extremely intimate reflection of the couple.”

Here is a list of vegan bakeries.

Here’s some inspiration to whip up a vegan cake…vegan chocolate, of course:

Celebrate your ethics, celebrate your love and celebrate your wedding day, with…Something borrowed, something blue…something vegan too!

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Magdalen B.

3:22AM PDT on May 7, 2012

Surely if people are coming to your wedding, they know you well enough toanticipate the sort of food you're going to offer?
A friend of ours had decided on a hog roast for his 50th birthday. Ian and I offered to prepare alternative food for the vegetarians of whom there were several. What we should have done was to put up a big notice saying that this lovely inviting stuff was the vegetarian option because most of it got scoffed by people who thought it was an accompaniment.

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Lydia P.

4:04PM PDT on Apr 29, 2012

What is it with all this wedding hoopla anyway? People should come because they wish you well in your new life together and because they love you. Do you really need ANY food? How about just cake and ice cream?

Stefanie R.

6:10PM PDT on Apr 24, 2012

Vegans can have whatever kind of weddings they want; doesn't bother me. The guests aren't required to attend, nor are they required to eat the food provided. Although, I would hope they'd be grateful for all the money that goes into the reception venue and the catering.

Nimue P.

6:03PM PDT on Apr 24, 2012

If you're vegan then it's highly likely that the person you're marrying is too, so have a vegan wedding breakfast, after all, it's YOUR day, not anyone else's. Your friends and relatives can eat vegan for one meal, it's not like eating poison, it won't kill them, and if they love you they won't mind, they will want you to be happy on your special day. I wasn't vegan either time I got married (am now) If I was to marry again, I would have a vegan wedding breakfast. Thanks.

Teresa W.

7:10AM PDT on Apr 24, 2012

Diane, shut up at last! If you hate vegetarians so much, quit Care2 and set up your own site, call it Gore2 and spurt gore all around, you vampire!

7:08AM PDT on Apr 24, 2012

Marriage is obsolete, so why prepare anything for a wedding?

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