right, so where to start........
Tegan, you amaze me how much you have changed. inspiration comes from the heart. You can't expect it to just pop up randomly each day.
Has this "lovely man" actually said to you that he wants meat at every dinner???i'm sure the heart foundation would have something to say about this. it is said that a lasting marriage is all about communication, even about the small things, like meat, how you fold his socks and whether or not you iron his jocks.
As a pointer though, creativity shows that even a vegetarian pasta sauce, can be spruced up with a little thing we like to call, cooked mince. it's not that hard. or bacon, or ham, the list continues.
What is the deal with obsessing over being the "good little house wife"??if you don't do this stuff now, what's to say that a)you will continue doing it, or

that it's not going to change the person you are.
If he doesn't already know how little you believe you are capable of doing, and how little you are currently doing, then why are you getting married??
To be entirely honest, i am amazingly surprised how materialistic and self-centered you have become.
It is one thing to hope that you will receive gifts, but it is quite another to only invite those who you are almost certain would purchase gifts for you. If that doesn't scream materialistic, i don't know what does.
Now to be fair, this information that i, the Tooth Fairy holds, may not be entriely 100% accurate. The "grape vine", as you would expect, often bends and breaks.
Although you were only cooking for "friends", anyone in their right mind would have trialed a recipe first. Common sense tells us, that this is the best method to avoid embarassment and humiliation. I wouldn't be so quick to bag out your friends cooking, some of the most simplist and devine meals come from a packet. Can i ask you, are you sure you're old enough to get married, it's a big step after all. so unless you want to become one of the rapidly growing Divorce statistics, i suggest you think deep.