The Cookie Table, redux

[WCsweet<3]

I told my mother about this tradition about a week ago. She loves the idea and as already started telling all her friends about it. They want to do it for all the weddings that are coming up.


Bringing southern traditions to the West Coast since 2011.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

I told my mother about this tradition about a week ago. She loves the idea and as already started telling all her friends about it. They want to do it for all the weddings that are coming up.


Bringing southern traditions to the West Coast since 2011.

It is a Pittsburgh area tradition, not a southern tradition, FYI. My family pretty much did this but it expanded to other Italian desserts like cannoli too. Then again, they first settled in Pittsburgh before coming to Detroit.

[Benzgirl]

It's a tradition in a lot of cultures. You will never go to a Greek Wedding or an Eastern European wedding that there is no cookie table. I went to so many of them when I was little that the first wedding I went to where there was no cookie table made me cry. I was expecting it!

[KSUViolet06]

More tables for everyone to look at (disclaimer, these are more like DESSERT tables because I see more cookie tables offering more than just cookies these days!):

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

More tables for everyone to look at (disclaimer, these are more like DESSERT tables because I see more cookie tables offering more than just cookies these days!):

Signs that you're spending too much time on Greekchat...

I just looked at these three pictures and thought "Tri Sigma... AST... Theta..."

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Signs that you're spending too much time on Greekchat...

I just looked at these three pictures and thought "Tri Sigma... AST... Theta..."

What, you didn't see the Phi Mu's quadrefoils and ADPi diamonds?

[Tulip86]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

More tables for everyone to look at (disclaimer, these are more like DESSERT tables because I see more cookie tables offering more than just cookies these days!):

Those macaron towers are insane! Absolutely love it!

[DreamfulSpirit]

I had never heard of doing a cookie table before. I didn't have one at my wedding.

[christiangirl]

I just did a cycle of "Aw that's cute! Dang, I drooled." about 3 times.

[Benzgirl]

I'm all about the cupcakes and want to grab one off that Theta table up there (black and gold)

GC has started a cookie table obsession in me. I already told my boyfriend that we are having an ice cream cake and a cookie table at our wedding instead of a traditional wedding cake.

[honeychile]

So far, this is going over like a lead balloon. I had to remind my DF of his promise. I start making rum balls this weekend, and my bridesmaids and all Burgh people have been primed to either bring cookies, or sweetly ask, "Where's the Cookie Table? You can't have a wedding without a Cookie table!" One very dear friend has promised to come early, make her remark about the lack of the Cookie Table, and then go out and get some (they'll be in her car)!

I should have told y'all this one earlier: the last wedding I went to was a Scots wedding, with all of the men wearing their respective kilts, and the ladies wearing their sashes. The groom's kilt was predominately black and purple, so the bridesmaid dresses were black, with purple trim for those not Scots.

Do you know what I mean by lady locks, cream horn or clothespin cookies? They're hollow pastry tubes filled with some sort of whipped cream or icing. Well, at this wedding, the ladies filled them with black or purple icing! All night long, people were licking their teeth so they didn't look black! I just found a place that sells the empty shells, and we can fill them there!

[KSUViolet06]

I'm kind of using this thread as the default non-cake table/other dessrt thread.

I found these desserts on a blog. Non-traditional wedding desserts for people who really don't like cake (or whose guests aren't really into cake) :



From top left to bottom right: Guiness chocolate pudding, blueberry trifle with mascarpone whip, cheesecake in a jar, mini peanut butter pies.

and back to cookies--hot air balloon cookie favors:

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I'm kind of using this thread as the default non-cake table/other dessrt thread.

I found these desserts on a blog. Non-traditional wedding desserts for people who really don't like cake (or whose guests aren't really into cake) :

Those look tasty!

[southbymidwest]

^^^ I want them all. Now. Sigh.