My husband Kevin and I eloped in November 2009. We decided instead of having a big crazy wedding, we’d just swing by the courthouse and throw a low-key party later. Before we even got married, we knew we were going to have all vegan food at our party, and we knew that awesome food would come from Spiral Diner, our most favorite restaurant in the world.
Behold the deliciosity! All vegan, all awesome, put together by Lindsay—pigs in blankets, veggie wraps, chips, hummus, salsa, chickenless salad, and fresh fruits and veggies. The only other vegetarian in our family besides Kevin and I is my mom, but we heard nothing but good things about the food from our omnivorous friends and relatives. My favorite item was definitely the pigs in blankets, followed closely by the chickenless salad.
And of course there was cake! Glorious Neapolitan cake—layers of chocolate and white cake with strawberry icing, drizzled with chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate-covered strawberries—all put together by the very talented founder of Spiral Diner, Amy McNutt. OMG! And yes, it was vegan, and everyone raved about it! It was soooo moist and sooooo delicious (and pretty to boot)!
Here’s another view of the yumminess:
The party went down at The Usual, our friendly, local prohibition-era cocktail-serving bar. Seriously, if you’re a cocktail connoisseur or or just looking for a good Friday night cocktail, you have to check this place out. I’m a fan of the Scorpio and the Mai Tai. Click the link to check out their happy hour specials.
So that’s our vegan wedding party. I was so stuffed by the end of the evening, but it was all sooo, sooo good. And no one except my carnivore brother seemed even reluctant about the food. So there you go . . . vegan wedding shindigs can totally be done and they can be thoroughly awesome!
wow that looks so great! has it been a pain to do vegan wedding things? it all looks gourmet
Katherine
What a gorgeous cake!
hey! i’m only just now reading this because i only just now heard about this blog because you only just now said something about it on your other blog lol
y’all’s party sounds like it was awesome and i wish we could have gone! we wanna go to the usual sometime! we went in the night of the arts goggle but once we were in there jens and joel decided they didn’t actually want anything to drink anyway! so we left!
( i wanna go and actually get a drink though! maybe we can all go together sometime 
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congrats on y’all’s marriage! -randi
Hey Randi! That sounds awesome! Let us know when y’all want to go to the usual. We’re almost always game to go!
We’re there almost every Friday night nowadays to record the Hello Panther podcast.
ps- those were not the emoticons i wanted to use! lol at least not the first one…
awesome!
oh! i just remembered- we’re thinking of going to the ft. worth modern this fri. night to see a movie there called please give…maybe we could go to the usual afterward (around 10 or so).