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NY TImes Article about the Pittsburgh Cookie Table

posted 2 years ago in Pittsburgh
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    Hi Bees!!

    Just wanted to share this with everyone.

    In Pittsburgh, Its I Do and then Pass the Cookies.

     
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    Blueshoes2    June 2010   PA

    That's a really cute article! 

    Cookies are such a major part of weddings here, and I never knew it until I got into this whole planning thing.  We will be bringing in cookies, then the caterer will plate and arrange them on the cookie table. It's apparently a must-do!

     

     
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    luckyyou    March 20, 2010   Philadelphia, PA

    That's a great article! I love the cookie thing - we're doing them as our favors. I think it's really great when they're homemade from family recipes.

     
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    I thought so too. We're going to have a cookie table as our favors, with Chinese Take Boxes. 

     
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    ribbons    June 12, 2010  

    I loved this article. Those ladies are crazy to make 1,000+ cookies!

     
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    JeniRae    May 2, 2009   Pittsburgh

    I didn't know massive cookie tables weren't at ALL weddings until I was pretty much an adult!

     
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    JeniRae    May 2, 2009   Pittsburgh

    Here's (part of) our cookie table! NY TImes Article about the Pittsburgh Cookie  Table :  wedding cookie table pittsburgh FD

     
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    redherring    September 11, 2010   Pittsburgh, PA

    I totally needed this article back when we first started looking at venues. Everyone kept talking about a "cookie plating fee" and I finally was like, "What in the world are you talking about?!" Obviously, I'm a Pittsburgh transplant :)

     
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    Sunshine1    April 9, 2010  

    Lordy, lol, I never even heard of the cookie table (I'm from NJ) before I started looking at reception places in Pittsburgh. And I certainly didn't understand the big deal about no cookie table seet up fee until I saw the picture in this article! I thought people would just line up the trays/plates they brought (or the bakery brought) on a table. Now I get it!!

     
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    ThePinkSuperhero    April 10, 2010   NYC

    Never heard of this, and it sounds so fun!

     
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    Stace126    September 28, 2013   Pittsburgh, PA

    lol what an awesome article!

    I had no idea that the cookie table was a Pittsburgh tradition until the last couple of years when people my age started attending out of town weddings.

    One of my friends went to a co-worker's wedding in Philly and she says, "After dinner, I was served one thin slice of cake on a plate. That's it. Nothing else. No cookies to be seen or heard of."

    Seriously, it IS pretty much sacreligious to NOT have cookies! 

     

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