Weddingbee Blog

Any other Pratchett/CMOT Dibbler fans out there? Anyway…

I have an addiction. Its name is Martha Stewart Weddings. I have most of what we need for the wedding, but I can’t stop buying MSW—I guess I think I’ll miss something if I don’t read every issue. Really, they’re all the same ads for dresses and Sandals resorts, but there are still some real gems in there, too! (Full disclosure: Mum got me a subscription to the regular Martha Stewart mag for Christmas, and it is the gift that keeps on giving. Love. It.) The most recent issue had these babies:

Lemon-Meringue Cookie Kebabs, photo from MSW

I am now obsessed with these essence-of-pie-onna-stick pops. You see, the marshmallow is lemon-flavoured, then you’ve got the meringue, and the shortbread cookie represents the crust… LEMON MERINGUE PIE ONNA STICK. Does it get any better?

I keep thinking that it would be nice to have some snacks and a little refreshing beverage available pre-ceremony, for those who get there early. I’m picturing pretty drink dispensers filled with lemonade and water (P.S. where does one buy those?), and now I’m drawing in a few little tasties on sticks! We’ll have a full pie buffet for actual dessert later in the evening, so we couldn’t use them there, but what if people are feeling a little munch-y pre-ceremony? It’s only polite to provide, after all.

After obsessing about the LMCKs for a day or two, I realised that we could have a few different desserts on sticks for snacking on:

Photo from Sugar Pie Bakery

The popular pie-onna-stick (incidentally, this bakery is the brainchild of a friend of a friend of mine, so I’d be supporting good people by buying).

And that dessert-world darling, the macaron. Onna stick.

(photo from Trissalicious)

I recently found a macaron bakery here in Calgary—they have a booth at a new farmers’ market (the same place you can buy the pie-onna-stick!). They don’t sell macarons on sticks, but I’m sure they could be persuaded. I have made macarons myself, but I wouldn’t want to put that sort of stress on myself before the wedding, considering how much wedding pie I’ll be baking that week.

I can see such a pretty display of all these in my head, and everything arranged on top of vintage furniture painted in bright colours, maybe the paint is a little worn, making it that much more rustic-chic…but it probably won’t happen. The macarons won’t happen because they are made with almond flour. We gave ourselves a strict “no nuts” rule for the wedding, to avoid killing important people like the best man and the groom’s mum.

I’m still toying with the idea of the lemon meringue pops, because I’ve seen meringue kisses for sale at Safeway (usually in tubs of white/yellow/pink, but I could deal with that). The cookies would be easy, and I have made marshmallows before. They’re not that hard (if you have a working candy thermometer…). Or maybe I should just find another excuse to make them, like a birthday party or something? Something non-wedding related might be better for my sanity, but now that I’ve had this vision of cute desserts on sticks at the wedding, it is hard to get rid of it.

Will people even want snackies before an evening wedding, when they’re going to have a dinner’s worth of appetizers anyway? Are you providing any pre-ceremony snacks or refreshments?