so tired of not getting fed at weddings

Bit of a rant, but I am so tired of barely or not getting fed at weddings. I’m talking nice, plated, professionally catered weddings. You’re telling me as a professional chef you can’t come up with something better? You’re being paid to make sure people eat and you can’t put some pasta on a plate?

wedding meals I’ve been served:
- a mound of farro with mushrooms on the side - the caterer pre-dressed this with a honey vinaigrette and didn’t have extra, so they ended up giving me a plate of two more appetizer salads
- “stuffed pepper” of rice and absolutely nothing else
- a clementine-sized mushroom cap stuffed with spinach and more mushroom (I don’t eat mushrooms, so I didn’t eat)
- a quinoa puck

The quinoa puck was the latest and most offensive, at a $150K+ wedding at the nicest venue on Nantucket.

Interestingly, this only happens at weddings for my boyfriend’s friends. At my friend’s weddings, I get incredible, creative, satisfying dishes and desserts. My gluten-free boyfriend always eats well at his friend’s weddings, but is overly accommodated by my friends.

If I say something about not getting a “real meal” to my boyfriend the next day, he gets upset and says the wedding isn’t about me or the food. It’s not, and I don’t blame the couples or make it an issue, but I still deserve to eat a real meal when someone is being paid $100+ per plate to feed guests