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Food

We all love alternative cake and nontraditional cupcakes, but Offbeat Wed also adores wedding pie, wedding candy, and wedding wheels of cheese. We have wedding menus, and information for special diets like vegetarians vegans, gluten free folks, and more!

Art, succulents, & a crystal crown at this vegan eco-friendly wedding

The three Fs of vegan wedding menu planning: filling, flavors, and fotos

Vegan wedding menu planning requires a multi sensory approach when you need to accommodate your carnivorous guests as well as the vegans. Our tips and examples make it easy.

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Imbibe in style with these snazzy signature cocktail & mocktail recipes

We featured Brant and Erik’s super romantic, candlelit love story a couple of weeks back and it bowled us over with it’s fabulousness. But absolutely not to be missed were their inspired signature cocktails and mocktails. I had to find out what was in these clearly delicious libations and was thrilled when I was able to snag the recipes for them, all created by the mixologist artists at Maine-based The Bar Association.

National Donut Day: wedding donut displays

Celebrating wedding donut walls on this National Donut Day

It’s NATIONAL DONUT DAY, y’all! We’ve been worshipping wedding donuts for years now and they’re still just as fun as ever. And delicious. I argue that they are the most delicious dessert. Meet me in the parking lot if you don’t agree.

Donuts are the HOLE shebang. DONUT miss out on these super fun wedding donut walls…

Ride the rosé trend with these sparkling rosé signature cocktails

Ride the rosé trend with these rosé signature cocktails

If you’re excited that rosé is having its day in the sun then you’re in my camp. I love a pretty pink and sweet drink. I’m a cliché, what can I say?

Let’s be cliché together and add one of these pretty (and delicious!) rosé signature cocktails to our wedding drink repertoire, shall we?

Wedding drip cakes

10 reasons wedding drip cakes are a most lavishly delicious trend

I have a special place in my heart for wedding cake trends (naked cakes! pop culture cakes! literal cheese cakes!). That’s why I always love seeing what new trends are popping up. It seems that drip cakes are making a comeback, which we LOVE.

Here are some of the more offbeat drip cakes we could find, with rainbows, caramel, pastels, sprinkles, popcorn, and even fake blood for Halloween. Let’s get drippy with it!

Halloween wedding cakes

Halloween wedding cakes that will make you quake in your boots (while wanting to stuff your face!)

I fell down the rabbit hole of intricate and detailed wedding cakes and found some SPECTACULAR Halloween wedding cakes by the always amazing UK-based Black Cherry Cake Company. ‘Tis the season to make lists of all the Halloween movies to watch while crafting up wedding decor and favors, so be inspired by these cakes.

We’ve got Frankenweenie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Walking Dead, Disney Halloween, Alien, Twin Peaks, Hannibal, and more. The mash-up cakes are particularly epic. Get ready to have your Halloween-loving mind blown…