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Jewish Weddings

Kosher Question

I usually post on the Connecticut board but this seemed like a better question for this board... FI and I are Jewish but we are having a basically secular wedding. I have a fair number of relatives on one side who are orthodox (about 15 guests), but my immediate family and FI's family are not religious. Our venue has an outside kosher caterer so our orthodox guests can have kosher meals. I was told yesterday that some of the orthodox relatives will have a major problem if there is any kind of dairy (butter, cream, etc.) on their tables. I had never heard of this sort of rule and am not thrilled about having to ask my venue to make sure there is no butter on certain tables. I plan to sit all the kosher people together if possible and make sure that one table has no butter, cream, etc., to avoid any drama. But I am curious how common of a request that is and whether it would be reasonable to draw the line at just giving people kosher meals instead. (My feeling is that I am happy to accommodate people's individual meal choices, but since this is a wedding for more than orthodox people, I don't feel it is required to change communal things to accommodate one group. But I will do it to make peace. I am just curious how reasonable this is.) Thanks!

Re: Kosher Question

  • edited December 2011
    if you are having a non-kosher wedding, but need to have kosher meals for some of the guests, keep in mind that the meals they are served will be coming individually wrapped in tin foil and plastic.  you cannot have the caterer put these meals on plates, they have to stay in the foil wrap and be served with plastic utensils.  i was at a wedding that did this, during the cocktail hour, all of the kosher people were crowded around a table covered in take out boxes... i am reformed and thought it was a little odd, but my fiance who is orthodox (therefore ours will be a glatt kosher wedding, no lobster for me, sad) told me that is how it has to be done, that way the people eating it are assured that the meal is kosher and hasn't touched non-kosher plates, etc.  and in regards to butter, cream, etc, they will know that anything not in foil is not kosher-friendlyit's very nice of you to be thinking of and accommodating others!
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