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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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Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta instead of wedding 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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The High-Sugar High: Why You Should Absolutely Spin 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!

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Why Walking Tacos are the Ultimate Nontraditional Wedding Food

A “walking taco” is an awesomely portable, perfectly portioned, totally casual snack that would be perfect during a cocktail hour or reception. The trick is how to teach your guests how to make it!