Elisheva Margulies is the founder of Eat With Eli, a natural foods culinary service based in St. Louis.
Eleven months into planning our April wedding, and my fianc� and I feel like we should write a book - the ultimate guide to the sustainable Jewish wedding. We dove into the world of wedding planning together, and decided to plan a wedding that would truly reflect us - with our desire to live sustainably and to also fulfill our families' desire to have a large simcha.
Once we started on our venue search, the next question was obvious - what will we eat? For us, having a vegetarian wedding was of utmost importance. You might remember that Chelsea Clinton served meat at her wedding, although she's a vegetarian. We fell on the other side of that debate. Why should we serve meat when we wouldn't eat it ourselves? And along those lines, did we need to have a kosher caterer, or could we have a vegetarian-only wedding and satisfy the needs of most of our guests? But then we fretted - what about our orthodox guests? What about the fact that it's a wedding - shouldn't it be kosher?
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