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Old 12-16-2009, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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For as long as anyone here can remember, wedding receptions in Pittsburgh have featured cookie tables, laden with dozens of homemade old-fashioned offerings like lady locks, pizzelles and buckeyes. For weeks ahead — sometimes months — mothers and aunts and grandmas and in-laws hunker down in the kitchen baking and freezing. Then, on the big day, hungry guests ravage the buffet, piling plates high and packing more in takeout containers so they can have them for breakfast the next day.
I've never actually seen a cookie table in action. All of the Pittsburgh weddings I've been to have been between transplants.
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Old 12-16-2009, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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haha that's funny. A friend of mine from Connecticut just went to her first Pittsburgh wedding and had never heard of this "cookie spread" before. I, on the other hand, never having been to a NON-western-Pennsylvania wedding, did not know that weddings existed without cookies!
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Old 12-16-2009, 10:26 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Oh yeah... gotta have the cookie table or something like it.

Our daughter had cookies as the dining tables' centerpieces.
Guests who wanted to sample cookies other than what was on their table had to get up and mingle... go to the other tables, each of which had a different variety.
That was well received!
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Old 12-16-2009, 10:28 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Oh... and when we went to a wedding in OH, there was a cookie table. The bride & her parents were born & raised in Beaver County.
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Old 12-16-2009, 10:56 AM
 
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I had NO IDEA that cookie tables weren't a tradition outside of Pittsburgh!
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Old 12-16-2009, 11:02 AM
 
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I had never heard of the tradition myself until my sister married someone who had been born and raised in Pittsburgh and his parents threw a hissy fit that their wouldn't be a cookie table...so then there was one...a Pittsburgh tradition that this Pittsburgh-transplant is a huge fan of lol
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Old 12-16-2009, 11:05 AM
 
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Oh... and when we went to a wedding in OH, there was a cookie table. The bride & her parents were born & raised in Beaver County.
Yeah, I read the entire article and a section of Ohio does the cookie table too. But we can't let Ohio take credit for starting the cookie table! There's no way!
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Old 12-16-2009, 01:01 PM
 
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A charming idea--which I had never heard of until recently. And we actually had our wedding in Pittsburgh (although it was between two non-natives and most of the guests were non-native as well).
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Old 12-16-2009, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Swisshelm Park, Pittsburgh, PA
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A charming idea--which I had never heard of until recently. And we actually had our wedding in Pittsburgh (although it was between two non-natives and most of the guests were non-native as well).

I'm surprised that your wife didn't hear about it when planning your wedding! I am non-native who was married in Pittsburgh. When I was looking for a place to hold my reception, all of the vendors talked about how they would lay out my cookies for me as part of the reception package or told me about how they did their cookie displays. I smiled, nodded and then asked my husband's sister-in-law "okay - what's the deal with the cookies?"
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Old 12-16-2009, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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A charming idea--which I had never heard of until recently. And we actually had our wedding in Pittsburgh (although it was between two non-natives and most of the guests were non-native as well).
And all the natives said "Where the hell are the cookies?" I've only been to a couple of Pittsburgh weddings, but yeah they did have the cookies for sure. Never seen it anywhere else. Really funny to see that when I was glancing at NYT stories earlier.
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