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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!

popcorn alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Serve up flavored popcorn favors to your guests (with recipes!)

Nidia and Jamal had tons of things going for their sweet Indiana wedding, but we couldn’t stop drooling over their many flavors of popcorn favors (among a few favors!) they served to their guests. They had Chicago Mix (a Chicago staple of cheddar cheese and caramel mix), Asian BBQ, and Bombay Seasoning. I totally want all of those flavors right now.

You could translate this idea to the reception, cocktail hour, or even before the ceremony for mid-tears noshing.

Why wedding donuts make the best cake substitute ever

10 reasons wedding donuts make the best cake substitute ever

We know cupcakes took hold of the wedding industry by force in the past decades, but we’re seeing loads more wedding donuts and we VERY much approve. Give me a glazed ring or french cruller any day. Plus, donuts = rings, and who says no to a ring theme at a wedding? From towers to photo ops to donut earrings, here are ten reasons why wedding donuts may be your favorite cake substitute…

These personalized popcorn favors can be food, favors, AND table numbers

These personalized popcorn favors can be food, favors, AND table numbers

You might remember Jensen and Quinn’s #goals brunch drunk love wedding, but do you recall the most wonderful food element of all? We are loving these personalized popcorn favors that could serve as cocktail hour snack, post-dinner snack, table number, and of course, the favor!

The one cake to rule them all: a Lord of the Rings wedding cake

One cake to rule them all: a Lord of the Rings wedding cake

This Lord of the Rings wedding cake by Hope’s Sweet Cakes is totally going to be My Precious. I’m loving the four tiers of books: The Hobbit, Fellowship, Two Towers, and Return of the King. Any bookish and/or fantasy wedding would rock the shit out of this cake.

We dig breakfast so we LOVE this pancake wedding cake!

We dig breakfast so we LOVE this pancake wedding cake!

We’ll be showing off a fantastic rustic wedding later this week, but we seriously couldn’t wait to share their cake ahead of time. I say cake…

Yep, Travis and Gia (wedding coming soooon!) had a breakfast lover’s dream cake… a PANCAKE WEDDING CAKE! Talk about taking your brunch desires in the perfect direction. We’ve seen waffle cakes, we’ve seen naked cakes, but this is the first pancake cake we’ve seen. Are you as in as we are? Grab your syrup and let’s get to pancake wedding cake heaven…

This literal cheese cake is your savory cake alternative

Not into sugar? This literal cheese cake is your savory cake alternative

Darcy and Jasper had one of the most rockin-est (yeah, it’s a word!) weddings ever. “Drunken gay glamour” sets the tone nicely. One little detail that we hadn’t seen in quite some time was their literal cheese cake, a savory cake alternative for the less sweets-minded. Stacked cheese is always goooood.