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Part Seven – Seven Things to Cut From Your Wedding & Save Your Budget
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Here is the last of seven tips of what to cut from your wedding budget that is unnecessary:
7. Saving The Top Layer of Your Wedding Cake for X… – The top layer of they wedding cake has traditionally been saved and not served to your guests. ‘Saved for what?’ you ask – well, it depends who you ask but its usually stuck in the freezer for at least a year. Often saved for your first wedding anniversary, or birth of your first baby, or their baptism. This tradition started a long time ago when cakes were make from fruit cake and had a glimmer of possibly, maybe surviving the long year.
Nowadays, not many people would not even consider fruit cake and often, the year old cake, certainly stale and likely freezer-burned taste pretty gross. So why do it? Why pay for that top layer so you can wrap it up, seal it in 3 ziplock freezer bags and a tupperware container only to throw it out in a year? Heres a better idea. Save the money and when the occasion comes around (first anniversary, first baby’s birth, etc.) make a special trip back to you baker and get a small replica make of your cake that you can enjoy while still fresh?
Hope these tips help! Happy planning!
Part Six – Seven Things to Cut From Your Wedding & Save Your Budget
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Here is the sixth part of the series of budget tips of things to cut from you wedding that no one will notice.
6. Bathroom Guest Baskets – this is something I never really understood. I mean it’s a nice sentiment, but having a basket with mouthwash, extra nylons, tums, a sewing kit is a nice to have, not a need to have. And can be pretty expensive. And besides, if you have a good wedding planner worth his or her salt, that all that kind of stuff will already be on hand in his or her on-site emergency kit.
Happy planning!
Seven Things to Cut From Your Wedding & Save Your Budget
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Each week, over the next few weeks I will give you my take on things that many couple provide/do at their wedding that will completely be either unnecessary, unappreciated or not even noticed.
1. The Fancy Cake Cutting Knife and Serving Set – Forget these. No one but your mom and maybe the caterer will even see these. ‘But what about in the pictures?’ you ask. Well considering that the picture will be taken as you cut the cake, you won’t even see it. Either your hand will cover them as you cut or they will be covering in icing from the cake. You caterer should have a decent set. Go with theirs. They’re free!
Stay tuned for more ideas next week! And feel free to share your ideas of the unnecessary, unappreciated or unnoticed…
Good luck and happy wedding planning!
