For one of our wedding pizza options, my fiancé is doing a veggie pizza.

Pairing the pizza with “Father of the Bride” felt extra relevant since the plot leans on a character returning to the U.S. from Rome, one of our honeymoon destinations.

The pictured pizza is gluten-free and vegetarian, but the one at our wedding will be a regular crust. It technically makes 3-4 “servings,” but we ate all of this just the two of us.

Ingredients
1 pizza crust (recipe here)
1 cup tomato sauce or eggplant spread
1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
0.5 green peppers, cut into strips
10 grape or cherry tomatoes, cut in half
0.5 cups mushrooms, sliced
1 sprig rosemary, destemmed

Instructions
Prepare your pizza crust. For this one, we actually used a frozen, chickpea-based, gluten-free crust. Your pizza crust may come with instructions for cooking temps. For this one, we preheated the oven to 400°F.

While the oven is preheating, slice your veggies and shred your cheese. We made this part a little easier by buying sliced mushrooms and shredded cheese.

Spread your tomato sauce or eggplant spread on the crust.

Add your toppings. We did about half of our veggies, then the cheese, then the other half of the veggies and the pieces of fresh rosemary. You can use a few sprinkles of dried rosemary if you don’t have fresh.

Follow your crust instructions for baking. Ours told us 10-15 minutes at 400°F, and we wound up baking our pizza for 12 minutes.

Slice and enjoy with “Father of the Bride!”

The Easy Route
You can always get a frozen or take and bake veggie pizza from the store to heat up. Of course, another easy route is to order a freshly baked veggie pizza for delivery.

The Pairing
I’ve written before about how the pairing of Steve Martin and Martin Short is a match made in heaven, and “Father of the Bride” is just another example of that.

Martin plays George Banks, a father who comes home from work to find his daughter, Annie (Kimberly Williams), has returned from Rome with a fiancé, Bryan (George Newbern). Diane Keaton and Kieran Culkin round out the family as Nina, George’s wife, and Matty, their son, respectively.

Short enters the scene as Franck, an overzealous, flamboyant wedding coordinator who turns Annie’s big day into quite the extravaganza.

The movie follows George as he goes through the wedding planning and has a series of mini meltdowns. Our wedding is nowhere near on the scale of Annie’s, but I can definitely understand having mini meltdowns. At least neither of us got arrested because we wouldn’t pay for hot dog buns.

Martin is absolutely perfect as George, as is Keaton as his better half.

If you decide to make this veggie pizza and/or watch “Father of the Bride,” let us know! Tag us in your Instagram posts & stories, tweets or TikTok videos: @veg_out_recipes

This is the third installment of our five-part Married at the Movies series. The others:
Part 1: “My Best Friend’s Wedding” + popcorn four ways
Part 2: “The Wedding Singer” + vegan chicken bacon ranch pizza
Part 4 coming April 6
Part 5 coming April 13