Wedding question

**Breezin** · 08-12-2010, 03:56 PM

ok -- I know that weddings in other states aren't the big gala's like weddings in NY (where I am) but I got an invitation today and it requested a side dish -- is that normal??

We'll be flying in from out of state that day -- what could I possibly bring???

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**janelle** · 08-12-2010, 04:05 PM

Stop at the market and buy a salad or someting easy. Heck, if they want to make it a pot luck wedding they will get a pot luck one.

I guess today anything goes now. At least they did not tell you to bring an expensive dish like a side of beef cooked to perfection. LOL

**sunflowers** · 08-12-2010, 04:36 PM

maybe that was for the intown guests only...

**Quaker_Parrots** · 08-12-2010, 04:50 PM

Ummm, that is kind of tacky. I have never had to bring a dish to pass at a wedding, and I am fro a big family. If you dont mind my asking, what state is this wedding in?

**Breezin** · 08-12-2010, 05:17 PM

Wedding is in Arizona

**pepperpot** · 08-12-2010, 05:18 PM

Bring salsa!

**prcsanglas** · 08-12-2010, 06:33 PM

I heard of this once before and the guests felt if they brought a dish then the couple didn't want gifts since people were contributing to the dinner. However the couple expected both.

As for quick dishes-
salad
do the pick up at a store of something- potato, mac, cole slaw, chips/dip, pepperoni tray
veg or fruit tray

**baragabrat** · 08-12-2010, 07:11 PM

If it was me, I would bring nothing if I was coming from out of state....unless I was staying with a family member and had use of her kitchen.

**janelle** · 08-12-2010, 09:00 PM

If it is in your invitation they probably mean you or they would have taken it out. Take a dish but then scale back on the wedding gift. The bride or her parents or both bride and groom should pay for the wedding and all that involves, If they want you to chip in then just scale back on the wedding gift.

**hotwheelstx** · 08-13-2010, 03:39 AM

If you're paying your own way to the wedding I would keep it simple...stop at the grocery store like others suggested. NO ONE can expect you to fly all that way and bring/cook something yourself. I would also scale back on the wedding gift. I live in the south and I've never heard of such a thing. NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE FROM THE SOUTH but I've seen armidillo cakes, possum cakes, rattle snake decorations, bear and dear head decorations down here. I guess anything goes these days.

**cathych** · 08-13-2010, 06:12 AM

I have lived in the south all my life and have never seen anything of the sort, but I guess it depends on whose wedding you go to. I have also never heard of a potluck wedding. If people cannot afford to have a wedding and invite guests they should be married at city hall.

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