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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!

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Bride and groom EXTERMINATE! their surprise Dalek wedding cakes

In the years that I’ve worked on Offbeat Bride, this has to be one of my most favorite things of all time. Yes, those are bride and groom daleks made of cake, (sitting next to a Tardis teapot no less). Tribesmaid eclaire4186 explains how these Doctor Who-tastic wedding cakes came to be.

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Send your partner a drink before the wedding

Ariel already suggested sending your partner a salatious love note before the ceremony, but what about my old friend Sarah’s idea of sending your partner a stiff drink before the wedding? Sarah explains her genius idea…

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Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta instead of cake?

In Sweden we have a cake for all occasions but mostly associated with summer time and burials, the Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta. I started requesting that my cake would be a Smörgåstårta not only for its awesome versatility but also for its wonderful properties. Here follows the definitive account of the properties of the most awesome of all Cakes. The one cake to rule them all.

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Blow up this inflatable buffet for your backyard wedding

How perfect is this inflatable buffet and salad bar for you backyard and potluck wedding and general party planners? Just inflate it, fill with ice, and your food will stay fresh for your whole party!

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Steal this menu: Pacific Northwest-style comfort food (plus root beer floats!)

Perhaps I was jonesing for some comfort food, but when I spied the menu from Lisa and Kevin’s garden party comfort food wedding, I was all “YESSSSSSS.” So I asked Lisa to give us even more information on their wedding day noms.

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Make cotton candy at your wedding

Want a sweet wedding dessert, but don’t want cake, cupcakes, donuts, or anything else in the dough family? Consider renting a cotton candy machine like Katie and Aaron (from iPad wedding fame) did!