Jennifer & Michael
What was behind the design of the cake? The cake was more or less in line with the vintage, classic feel we had wanted. It had sugar hydrangea flowers on it to match one of the flowers we used in the bouquets and arrangements. It was also not fondant, because it was very important to us that the cake taste as good as it looked. So armed with suggested colors, the fact that we wanted flowers and round layers, Sugar Sugar created the beautiful cake that we had at our wedding. It was absolutely wonderful! And, it was as good as it looked!
What do-it-yourself projects did you do? Let’s see… I did the menus – printed and put in lovely (dollar store!) etched, silver frames. We printed the table numbers ourselves. We came up with the display guests saw when they entered the reception. The night before the wedding, after the rehearsal dinner, my mom, my 2 sisters and my sister’s friend from college all helped me put together all of the finishing touches. We made bows out of tulle for the church pews, put ribbons on baskets for the rose petals, cookies and bathroom amenity baskets (my mom put those together). We stuffed paper cones w/ rose petals. We put stickers on the Tate’s chocolate chip cookies for guests to take home after the reception – they had a monogram and a message on them. We set up the apothecary jars, filling them with beach sand and faux beach glass for the note display – guests could write us well-wishes on little slips of paper and put them in the jars. We also filled wooden trays with sand and sprinkled beach glass on those to display the pale blue seating cards (I wrote all those out myself). We put silver kissing bells on trays for guests to ring as we left the church. We tied beautiful green ribbon on antique-style bird cages I found on a floral supply site to hold cards received from guests.
Mike typed out a page and put it in a vintage typewriter he has – “Mike & Jen, Chapter One, September 19, 2009.” Guests could also write us messages, a story, or whatever on that - and they did. It was a nice memento.
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