I was shocked while in high school about the girls who already knew exactly what they wanted in their weddings, had their dress and cake picked out, and all that was lacking was the groom. While I’ll tell every bride that you need to plan your wedding, I’m not sure that it should really be done that early. If you’re in high school or college, then why not just enjoy where you are? But I digress. There are really a ton of great advantages that you have when you plan your wedding. Perhaps the best advantage is that you can really have your hands in it and you get to enjoy all those little planning details that you’d miss if somebody else was doing it all for you. Really, meeting with the caterer, picking out your wedding dress and even the little things like all those little wedding favors and trying samples of wedding cakes are part of the fun when you plan your wedding versus hiring someone to do it for you. But there are several great advantages when you plan your wedding. Here are more reasons why you should, and how to get started and plan your wedding.

Advantages When You Plan Your Wedding

Like I mentioned before, when you plan your wedding you get to have your hands in it, and have fun doing all those little wedding tasks that really make you feel like you’re a part of everything. Read the rest of this entry »

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Are you looking for a new kind of wedding cake that isn’t your traditional round tiered wedding cake? Square wedding cakes are a pretty new modern trend that many brides are going with to help make their wedding cake stand out from the rest. Square wedding cakes can be anything from traditional to trendy for a great eye catching decoration at your wedding reception. Let’s face it, even though some people aren’t big fans of cake, they still look forward to seeing what kind of wedding cake you chose to have at your reception, and they’ll probably try it as well, so you need to pick a wedding cake design and shape that suits you best. For me, square wedding cakes are more of my style, but that isn’t the shape that I went with in the end, but I kind of wish I could.  So here are a few of my favorite things about square wedding cakes.

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Are you finding yourself completely overwhelmed with just how many details are involved in planning a wedding? It seems every time you turn around you find yourself having to choose over the length of  your tablecloths, the cutlery for your dinner, and yes, even wedding cake stands. Just when you think that picking out  a wedding cake is going to be easy, they have to throw in the option and make you agonize over wedding cake stands.  While not nearly as crucial as picking out a wedding dress or flower arrangements, wedding cake stands have their importance in your reception because they add height, elegance and sense of professionalism to your wedding cake. Not only that, but they help your wedding cake rise up (sorry for the pun there – couldn’t help it!) to be the focal point of your wedding reception on the cake table. So if you just don’t feel like dealing with the choices of wedding cake stands and are tempted to forget about them completely, or are just researching ideas for wedding cake stands for your wedding cake, here is a quick rundown of some of the stands available for your wedding.

Wedding Cake Stands with Pillars

Just as there are lots of different kinds of wedding cakes, there are lots of different choices when it comes to wedding cake stands. Wedding cake stands with pillars are one of the most popular kinds of wedding cake stands. A wedding cake stand with pillars means there are pillars and bases between each tier of your wedding cake. Wedding cake stands with pillars can really give your wedding cake some height, and has a really elegant look than a stacked wedding cake. The pillars you use between the layers of your wedding cake could be glass balls, wine glasses, decorated wire and any number of other possibilities.

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Have you remembered that you need to look for wedding cakes toppers? My husband’s great aunt got married (yes, great aunt!) last weekend, and when her wedding cake was delivered we discovered that she had forgotten all about looking for a wedding cake topper. Luckily, a family member lived nearby had her own wedding cake topper to lend our dear aunt.  The fact is, wedding cakes toppers are a huge part of weddings, and wedding cakes just don’t look right without some kind of wedding cake topper on top. Your choice of wedding cake topper not only represents the style of your wedding, but is one of the most visible parts of your style that they’ll see at your wedding. When it comes down to it, the variety of wedding cakes toppers that are available today are simply astounding. No matter what your personality, or the theme of your wedding is, you are sure to find unique wedding cakes toppers to suit your every whim and fancy. If you’re not sure if wedding cakes toppers are right for you, or are wondering what kinds of toppers are most popular,o r if you are just tired of the same old wedding cake topper that everyone else has had, then here is a great rundown of all the information that you need.

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When most people think about wedding cake toppers, they think about that little plastic figurines of a bride and groom all dressed up and standing together on top of a wedding cake. This miniature couple is typically standing hand in hand, or perhaps arm in arm. In fact, up until just a few years ago, wedding cakes just didn’t look like wedding cakes without that miniature plastic couple. Luckily, that just isn’t the case anymore. Now, wedding cake toppers come in all kinds of designs, colors, materials, and can be personalized to fit anything you want for your wedding. The last thing that I wanted for my wedding cake was to have it be plain white with that tiny plastic couple on top. Here are some great ideas for personalized wedding cake toppers, as well as why couples would want a wedding cake topper in the first place.

Why Use Wedding Cake Toppers?

Wedding cake toppers are a great way to personalize your wedding cake. It seems a little crazy to say, but wedding cake toppers can add some fun and excitement to any kind of wedding cake.

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If you’ve attended many weddings in your lifetime, I’m sure that you’ve seen seen that wedding cakes come in all kinds of shapes sizes, and of course, designs. While you can find your dream wedding cake while browsing through numerous photo galleries (I did), that won’t help you a bit in determining how much that wedding cake will cost. So how much does a wedding cake cost anyway? Well, that actually depends on several different variables that go into creating a wedding cake. While the costs of creating a wedding cake will vary from bakery to bakery, it’s best to know what an average cost for wedding cakes are, as well as some definite factors that can raise the cost.

How Wedding Cakes are Priced

Wedding cake prices are not typically given out as a total cost per cake. Now I did look at some brochures for wedding cakes from some local grocery stores, and they did show a picture of a wedding cake and give a price for that cake as seen in the picture. That however, is not your average case. Most bakeries will charge you a “per slice” fee.

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I must admit, I’m a bit of a traditionalist at heart, and I wanted to have a beautiful traditional wedding. I wanted a huge white wedding dress, my dad to walk me down the aisle, and everything that went along with it. I have to admit though, I I nearly faltered when I started planning for our wedding cakes, and what kind of cake they would be. Let me explain. I love chocolate, and I can’t plain white cake. Really, even birthday cake…if it’s not chocolate than I really don’t want a piece of it. It’s crazy, but I guess it’s a girl thing or something. So, when it came to planning our wedding cake flavors, I really didn’t want a plain white wedding cake. I wanted my husband’s groom cake instead, chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate covered strawberries. My husband, by the way, hates chocolate. It’s a crazy mixed up world we live in, isn’t it? And then I wondered, ar chocolate wedding cakes for brides even possible? Turns out, the answer is YES!

Chocolate Wedding Cakes are Getting Popular

Turns out, I wasn’t the only bride craving the groom’s cake at the wedding.

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A relatively new trend for wedding cakes over the past few years has been the introduction of square wedding cakes. In times past, wedding cakes were always circular tiers, but that isn’t the case anymore. Square wedding cakes have become a huge trend for brides choosing their wedding cake, and there are many different ways that you can have square wedding cakes and still have them look different from all of the other wedding cakes out there. Here are just a few of the great wedding cake designs that you can use with square wedding cakes to get the perfect look for your wedding cake, as well as a few precautions you need to be aware of when deciding whether or not you want a square wedding cake.

The Gift Wrapped or Basket Design

Perhaps the most popular way to decorate square wedding cakes is to make them look either like gifts (which there will be a lot of at your wedding), or like baskets.

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You’ve got to admit it, cake designers are getting pretty creative these days. Wedding cake designs are not just limited to plain white wedding cakes with white icing flowers and a plain old wedding cake topper on top anymore. No way, wedding cake designs you’ll notice now are showing wedding cakes in all sorts of shapes, designs, colors, and accessories. If you can dream up your ideal wedding cake design, then chances are that some bakery or baker will be able to make it up to your specifications. But, there can be a downside. With so many choices in wedding cake designs, what happens when you just can’t choose the one you want for your wedding, or find that perfect wedding cake design picture that goes along with your dream wedding cake? Here are some basics of wedding cake designs that you’ll need to decide, and other accessories you can use.

Wedding Cake Designs – The Tiers

One of the first things you’ll need to be deciding when talking to your bakery about wedding cake designs in what kind of tiers you want on your wedding cake, how big (in diameter) the tiers should be, and how many tiers you’ll need. The number of guests you are expecting for your wedding is a great indicator on how many tiers and how large each tier should be. Your bakery should be able to tell you approximately how many servings you’ll have with the different number of tiers and the sizes of each tier. Now for what kind of tiers. The two basic kind of tiers you choose from are round tiers or square tiers. Then, if you choose square tiers, you’ll need to decide if you want them all straight, or to have each tier turned for a more funky look. To help you choose your wedding cake designs in this area, your bakery should be able to show you what each wedding cake design would look like.

Wedding Cake Designs – Colors and Flavors

Next, when choosing from the different wedding cake designs, you’ll need to decide what flavor of cake you want, if you want any kind of filling, and what flavor and color you’d like the icing to be. These cake flavors, depending on your bakery of course, can be any flavor that you choose. See my article on White Wedding Cakes to see what I did, and how you can have fun with your wedding cake flavors.

Wedding Cake Designs – Decorations

This is really where bakeries get creative for their wedding cake designs. There are so many different ways to decorate wedding cakes, that I don’t even know if I can cover them all, but I’ll try. You can choose a wedding cake design that is done purely of icing or fondant. Basket weave is a popular decoration for cakes, as well as polka dots or stripes. Also, my bakery used sugar flowers of different colors poked into the icing (see the picture in my Wedding Cake Topper article for a picture of my cake). Or, you can use fresh flowers, ribbon, crystals, or even fake pearls lining each tier. The number of wedding cake designs is limited only to your imagination, so plan away.

There are lots of wedding cake designs to choose from, and it took me long time to find the one I wanted. In fact, I even changed my order a few weeks before the wedding when I found a picture of a wedding cake design that I liked better than the one I had. So take your time, find a wedding cake design that you really love, and enjoy !

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Remember the old fashioned wedding cake topper that consisted of a little plastic miniature of a bride and groom on top of an all white cake? The little bride and groom may have been under a little arch or just standing by themselves. Personally, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kind of wedding cake topper actually used in a wedding, but then again, that could just be me. Brides today are going for different, unique and something different than what their parents and grandparents have done for years. Wedding cake toppers are a great way to add some extra style and grace to your wedding cake. There are many different kinds of wedding cake toppers you can choose from, and here are some great ideas of some popular choices today.

Fresh Flowers

Flowers are always a popular choice for wedding cakes. They add grace and beauty to your wedding cake as well as having the added benefit of giving off a bit of color to match your other wedding colors. Fresh flowers are something you can work out with your florist to handle. You can have flowers on top of your cake as well as cascading down the side, or placed on each layer of your wedding cake. The choices are endless, and if you want to go this way, talk to your florist and bakery, and they will have plenty of ideas of what you can do, and what they have done in the past.

Your New Monogram

This is something that my husband and I used on our wedding cake. I visited several sites on the Internet and ordered letters to create our new families monogram. Then, it was very simple to just push it down into the cake, and the effects were beautiful. The only thing you need to consider here is how wide the letters are, and the circumference of the top layer of your cake. If you look at the picture above, that is a picture of our wedding cake, and what the monogram looks like on the cake.

Miscellaneous

One thing that brides love to do today is to make everything unique to them. I’ve seen firefighter brides stick small fire engines on their wedding cake, and I’ve even seen fruit used as wedding cake toppers as well. Colored leaves for fall, plastic cranberries and pine cones for a Christmas wedding, and even a small cowboy hat for a cowboy wedding.

Wedding cake toppers are beautiful, and they really add a lot to your wedding cake. Many people today are also choosing not to have a wedding cake topper at all. Depending on the kind of wedding cake that you choose, you may not need a wedding cake topper. See my article on Wedding Cake Designs or check out Wedding Cake Toppers for other ways you can decorate your wedding cake. Consider your wedding cake, your tastes, and what you love before making your decision. As always, if you need more information or advice, feel free to comment and let me know!

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