Vegetarian Vows: A History of Plant Based Weddings
As more people adopt vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, plant based weddings have become increasingly popular. Modern vegan websites like VegNews regularly shares articles about vegan weddings and has a spin off website dedicated exclusively to vegan wedding content. Some wedding venues and mainstream wedding websites have taken note of this trend, some of them providing suggestions for menus.
While vegetarian and vegan weddings have become more common in the past few years, plant based weddings are not new. Some of the earliest vegetarian periodicals, like the Vegetarian Advocate, made note of weddings between vegetarians. Weddings between members of vegetarian organizations were reported on in short announcements, like this 1902 wedding mentioned in the The Vegetarian Magazine:
Miss Mabelle Rogers Touby and Mr. Addison Blakely were the principals in a vegetarian wedding which took place last month at Rogers Park, Chicago. Both are prominent workers in the Chicago Vegetarian Society. Mrs. Blakely is a charter member of the society. (p. 129)
Some vegetarian periodicals were more descriptive in their wedding announcements, like in this 1896 issue of Food, Home and Garden. The article briefly described the menu of one of the weddings, and noted how the other vegetarian wedding flouted other conventions besides…
