The vegan wedding feast was supposed to be a big surprise. The Twin Cities couple wanted their guests to enjoy the meal before being told it was all plant-based. They would do the big reveal at the end of the reception.
It didn't turn out that way, and now the newlyweds and the mother of the bride have served the caterer with a lawsuit.
The suit filed in Ramsey County District Court said the bride, Siara Zee Elovich Williams, and her husband-to-be, Kevin Williams, wanted to surprise their wedding guests with a vegan meal at their May wedding reception at A'Bulae in St. Paul.
Instead, the caterer, Mintahoe, ruined the surprise and the meal was a disaster, according to the suit against the caterer, the event center and their parent company.
Servers let on to guests throughout the meal that they were eating vegan food, saying they couldn't have creamer for their coffee or soy sauce because it wasn't vegan and then asking guests which dish they liked best, according to the lawsuit.
To make matters worse, a guest was allowed to bring chicken fingers to the meal without the bridal couple's approval.
"The food and service at the wedding was horrific," the couple stated in their lawsuit.
The tofu that was supposed to be crispy was raw. The curry was "just a bowl of vegetables, which were missing bamboo shoots as instructed, and had an exorbitant amount of carrots." As for the pad thai, the noodles were mush and broken into little pieces against explicit instructions, bean sprouts were few and the sauce was "sickeningly sweet."
