One thing I chose not to splurge on - the cake. I had tasted a devil's food cake at a birthday party at the groom's house and loved it. The cake was from a nearby grocery store, Graul's. So we made an appointment to taste the other flavors there, and I decided on a 3-layer plain pound cake (top layer = devil's food) with buttercream frosting. The cake decorations are very minimal. I never liked the cascading frosting flower look. So the cake is taking up 1% of our budget.
Initially, we had other desserts on the menu to be served with the cake, but we scratched the other desserts so we'll just have the cake, champagne, and some sweet wedding favors for the guests. As a couple, we're not really into sweets that much. We'd rather consume the extra sugar through our signature cocktails. And this is pretty much an adult affair. We might have two child guests, if even that.
We were interested in personalizing M&Ms for the occassion, but decided against spending the extra dough. You can even add pictures to them now! It's just like the personalized stamp thing. It's nice, but it's just extra money for the ability to customize - not a necessity at all.
http://www.mymms.com/customprint/
1 comment:
omg, PICTURE m&ms?!?!?! that's ... bizarre. i think you made a good choice.
I helped make the wedding cake for my friend Mina's wedding. It took five days. And then it collapsed, and we had to stuff real roses into the cracks and she never knew that it had collapsed until we told her (after the honeymoon). She's separated now. Hmm. I think this anecdote proves that cake-is-cake.
There's lots of wedding cakes on this:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
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