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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!
‘I Do’ – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex in the City
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009His ‘hello’ was the end of her endings.
Her laugh was their first step down the aisle.
His hand would be hers to hold forever.
His forever was as simple as her smile.
He said she was what was missing.
She said instantly she knew.
She was a question to be answered.
And his answer was “I do”.
Sarah Jessica Parker, as Carrie Bradshaw, in Episode 19 of “Sex and the City,” “The Chicken Dance.”
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!
Wedding Wishes Released into the Sky
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Here is an awesome way to end your wedding or special event. Wish Lanterns
Also known as khoom fay, sky lanterns, glo lanterns, chinese lanterns or thai lanterns. How pretty would it be at the end of the night, just before you and your new spouse leave to have all the guests come outside, whisper their wedding wishes inside the lanterns, light them and release them into the dark night’s sky?
These wish lanterns are so pretty and actually look quite large. I’m ordering a sample to see for myself. The have a wick that is lit and then it floats up, up and away into the air like little hot air balloons. The wick burns for about 12-15 minutes, at which point, they will fall back down to the earth. According to their website, they are 100% biodegradable.
The company that sells them, Wishlanterns.com is from Texas and does ship to Canada. Of course, there would be the currency exchange, customs and shipping costs…but they are so pretty! It almost seems a shame to let them float away!
I’ll bet these would look even more amazing in the winter here in Canada. The cold weather would make the lanterns fly even higher.
I’ll let you know once I get one…
Happy planning!