If you’re not a fan of the “cupcake wedding cake” or the traditional wedding cake, maybe you will like the individual cakes. Your guests will feel extra special when they receive individual cakes at your reception.
Monogrammed sugar cookies make sweet wedding favors and add a cute romantic touch to your wedding reception.
I think it’s a sweet idea to swap gifts with your groom the night before your wedding. Here are a few ideas that I like:
1. An engraved money clip
2. A monogrammed robe
3. Love knot cuff links
4. A picture frame with 2 slots (include a picture of the two of you when you first met and a wedding picture)
5. Portable DVD player
This elegant wedding cake is covered in buttercream frosting and diamond shapes with flowers on top.
Have your favorite bakery create a cake similar to this creation. You’ll definitely enjoy your reception with a treat this pretty.
A lot of brides wonder if the majority of the expenses will be left up to them and their parents…here is a complete list of the expenses traditionally paid for by the groom, from the rehearsal dinner to the honeymoon.
1. The Rehearsal Dinner - All expenses from flowers to food
2. Rings
3. The bride’s engagement ring
4. The bride’s wedding ring
5. Gifts
A wedding gift for the bride — this is not an absolute requirement, but it’s a nice old tradition that allows you to bring a personal note into the wedding flurry. The gift choice is up to you, but for generations, grooms have chosen the timeless gift of pearls for their brides (Some girls wouldn’t be thrilled with a set…including me!).
6. A groomsman’s gift for each of your attendants
7. Flowers…The bride’s bouquet (only in certain parts of the country), The bride’s going-away corsage, Corsages for the immediate family members (check with the bride, she may have this in her floral budget), boutonnieres for your attendants
8. Clothing
9. Tuxedos
You can rent or buy your tuxedo. Ties, gloves, vests/cummerbunds for the attendants may not be part of the rental package.
10. Lodging & Transportation
Accommodations for out-of-town attendants
Your own accommodation
Accommodations and transportation for out-of-town celebrant only if he or she was invited by your family
Transportation for yourself and your best man to the ceremony
Transportation and accommodations for your parents
11. Paperwork
The marriage license
Your own medical tests
The celebrant’s donation or fee
12. The Honeymoon
Transportation to the honeymoon destination
Lodging
All meals
All activities
Do brides have to wear veils?
From The KNOT (my FAVORITE wedding Web site):
The only thing you must wear is what makes you feel beautiful. If a veil doesn’t do anything for you, then skip it. It’s that easy. As far as what people will say, ask yourself this: Do you care? If it’ll bother you to know that some people will think that a bride just isn’t the same without a veil, then you might consider wearing an elbow-length veil for the ceremony and removing it for the reception. Many veils today are detachable and can easily be removed. You might also consider wearing a tiara. They’re very much in style right now — not only for brides — and it counts as an appropriate wedding-day head covering. It also looks really cool.