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Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! I'm getting married in June of 2006 - right before you! So this question has come up.

Basically, I've decided to NOT plan a safe menu for the reception. I'll eat something different - probably something I prepared the night before. Almost everyone I know knows that I have "stomach problems" and that I can't eat a lot of things (I do not tell them I have IBS), so it won't surprise them to see me eating something different.

As for the wedding cake, you CAN have it made to be safe for you. I am not going to do that - I will have a traditional Irish wedding cake for me that will be safe. Basically, have them make it fat-free, with no egg yolks or dairy (substitute soy/rice milk) and for the icing, they can either do the Seven Minute Frosting or any of the other frostings on the Recipe Index. I would encourage you, though, to consider eating something different than what is prepared for the rest of the guests. Food is something guests typically remember, and even though *I* may not be able to enjoy the food, I want everyone else to.

Congrats, again!

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Elizabeth

all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
send me an email: liz@dopple.net

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