I cried at my vegan wedding — the $15K menu was completely upstaged after guests did the unthinkable
These salad haters deserve to be tossed.
A humiliated bride was “completely upstaged” at her own wedding after hungry guests snubbed the upscale vegan dinner menu — and ordered pizza for delivery instead.
Taking to Reddit, the emotionally distraught bride — whose missive was deployed while crying in the bathroom as the events unfurled — wrote that she and her husband spent “nearly $15,000” to make the menu. It came after months of collaboration with a chef “to create a gourmet 5-course meal that just happened to be vegan.”
Its offerings included mushroom wellington, truffle risotto and roasted vegetable tarts, the 28-year-old added.
“We deliberately didn’t mention the food was vegan on the invitations because we wanted people to enjoy it without prejudice,” she wrote. “Every dish was designed to be delicious and satisfying, regardless of dietary preference.”
However, not everyone was keen to go green, including the bride’s 32-year-old brother, Tom.
“Twenty minutes later, I watched in horror as he and my cousins walked in carrying 20 large pizzas. They started distributing them to guests, announcing ‘Real food for anyone who wants it!'”
“I was mortified. The caterers looked so embarrassed, and several guests hadn’t even tried our carefully planned menu yet.”
The furious bride then confronted Tom, who shared texts his aunt had sent him, complaining that “all the food is just vegetables.”
Naturally, Tom and the family “couldn’t let people go hungry at a wedding.”
Meanwhile, the bride admitted that the “pizza completely upstaged our expensive gourmet meal.”
“People were taking photos and treating it like a joke. My mother-in-law posted on Facebook about how her son’s wedding was ‘saved by pizza’ because the bride tried to ‘force everyone to eat rabbit food.'”
The evening ended with the bride bawling her eyes out in the bathroom, and her 30-year-old husband, who also keeps a plant-based diet, kicked out Tom and their cousins, the pizza accomplices.
“This caused a scene, and now half the family is calling us stuck-up and saying we ruined our own wedding by ‘pushing our beliefs’ on everyone,” the bride wrote. “They’re saying we should have warned people about the vegan menu.”
In the post’s comments, folks online did not side with the newlyweds — particularly for weaponizing the element of surprise.
“Be honest, you didn’t tell anyone about the menu because you knew they wouldn’t like it/come if you did,” one wrote.
“[The original poster] is why people have a negative view of vegans,” added another.
