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@Peaches McPhee wrote:

Upstate NY here.  I am familiar with this for Italian weddings, but I think most just buy the cookies from a bakery.

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BUY them. OMG - my mother and grandmother just turned over in their graves.

[MaggieMack]

I grew up west coast, been in the Midwest 30 years, and I've never heard of this even though I have gone to Italian weddings. Must be a regional thing.

[missy1]

They don't have a cookie table here, grooms cake, or the wedding gift equaling the dinner costs.

[Mothertrucker]

Never heard of a cookie table..Dont ever recall going to a wedding with home made food either.

[Noel7]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

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@lulu2 wrote:

My husband is 100% Italian.  My then future MIL told me my parents needed to have trays of Italian cookies at the wedding.  We (the bride & groom) were supposed to carry the trays from table to table offering a cookie in exchange for a wedding envelope.  No way was I going to do that. MIL got bent out of shape when I left the cookie trays on the table, allowing guests to help themselves to as many cookies as they wanted.

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Yikes!  Kinda like begging, eh?    I don't blame you.  I wouldn't do that either.  I'd have been embarrassed.

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@chickenbutt

ITA.  I wouldn't want to go to a wedding where I had to make cookies, either. 

I did it for years for PTA, bake sales, Brownies, Girl Scouts, church youth groups, plus the requisite Christmas cookies for kid parties.

I am done making cookies unless I am really in the mood for it, I am cookied out.

[Jessa9]

I'm  in Pittsburgh and my mother and aunts baked for weeks for my cookie table at my wedding. We always look forward to the cookie table at weddings.

[chickenbutt]

Hey, Noel!  Yeah, that too!   If I were going to have to do such a thing I would feel obligated to MAKE the cookies and not just buy them from the store or something.    But never having encountered that I guess it's not a worry. hehe

[Noel7]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

Hey, Noel!  Yeah, that too!   If I were going to have to do such a thing I would feel obligated to MAKE the cookies and not just buy them from the store or something.    But never having encountered that I guess it's not a worry. hehe

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@chickenbutt

Me, too.  Honestly, there was this thing among all the mothers' groups... If anyone showed up with store-bought, the eyes rolled and she was marked for life, LOL.

[MacDUFF]

I'm Italian...from the upper mid-west...been to umpteen Italian weddings, but never one with a cookie table...darn it!

[shaggygirl]

I married into an Italian family and every family wedding over the years they had the cookie trays baked by the aunts/cousins/whoever and you helped yourself with the bags provided. Oh and the pastel colored candy coated almonds in the pretty little ribbon tied mesh bags on the guests tables, another must do.