Category Archive

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!

Chocolate signature cocktail as seen on @offbeatbride

Chocolate-fiends: This grasshopper julep could be your chocolate signature cocktail

Hey, chocolate lovers: are you in need of a really good chocolate signature cocktail, or even an idea for a unity cocktail? This grasshopper julep might be your new favorite drink. We just had the Kentucky Derby, so a good, stiff bourbon drink is just what the drink doctor ordered. Hell, maybe just save this recipe for a particularly long crafting night. I won’t judge. I’m probably drinking one right now anyway. Let’s see how to make this mint meets chocolate meets booze delicious monstrosity.

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This IS the Star Wars meets Star Trek sci-fi dessert bar you’re looking for

We’ve got Michelle and Phil’s “Oscars in space” wedding coming soon, but I couldn’t wait to share their geektastic Star Wars meets Star Trek dessert bar. It’s the final frontier in satisfying your sweet tooth at the reception. We’re talking Wookiee cookies, Death Star cake balls, Star Trek iced cookies, pretzel lightsabers, and R2-D2 oreos. Plus there were even themed drinks like “The Beverly Crusher” and “The Dark and Stormy Side.” Let’s take a sneak peek before we see their full wedding later this week.

Wedding cake fails so bad they're good as seen on @offbeatbride

11 wedding cake fails so bad they’re good

What’s one love we share with the rest of the world? DIY fails. We love ’em and who can blame us since we’ve probably all failed at one Pinterest project or another and are on DIY burnout mode. We also love when we see wedding cakes that fail so hard they’ve turned a corner into being awesome anyway. Let’s celebrate cakes that just didn’t make the cut to Pinterest-hood but we’d give a big hug to anyway.

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No wedding cake smashing – do sexy knife licking instead!

Knife licking is way sexier than cake smashing, as seriously evidenced by this sexy shot from Scotia and Kyle’s Celtic viking pirate punk wedding. Delicious innuendo, how we heart thee. It’s appropriate that I’m categorizing this as “Food Porn.”