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Dessert Only Wedding Reception Ideas

About to Get Married — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:52:38 +0000

By Jeffry Evans

With the rising costs of weddings every year, couples everywhere are trying to find ways to extend their budget while still planning a wedding and reception of their dreams. Many couples are starting to use other themes for their wedding receptions instead of serving a large dinner, or a cake and punch reception only, and the ideas are getting more and more creative. A dessert reception theme is starting to take off. You may have looked into it without knowing where to start or what to serve. Here are some of the most popular ideas for desserts in your dessert only reception. You can choose to implement only one of these ideas, or several for more variety so that everyone can have their favorite.

1. Make a Cookie Table

Many bakeries, caterers, and even grocery stores can make large platters of assorted cookies at an affordable cost. You can either use the platters they come in, or arrange them yourself on the table using the decorations of your choice to dress up the table. An assortment of chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, snicker doodles, double chocolate, or a special favorite of yours will be sure to grab your guests attention.

2. Rent a Chocolate Fountain

Chocolate fountains are starting to be used more and more at receptions as they can be very beautiful, smell wonderful, and make a great dessert table! They rent relatively cheaply, and then include your favorites in large bowls around the fountain for guests to dip or have drizzled with chocolate. Some favorites include pretzels, marshmallows, strawberries and other fruits, Oreo cookies, graham crackers, and much more!

3. Ice Cream Sundae Bar

Seriously, who doesn’t like an ice cream sundae? This usually works best with a caterer since they have the appliances to keep everything cold throughout your reception, but if you can find a way to do it yourself, more power to you! Start out with vanilla or chocolate ice cream and then have bowls set out of different things for your guests to add to their sundaes. Chocolate sauce, sprinkles, nuts, cherries, whipped cream, chocolate chips, and much more! Definitely a reception your guests will not soon forget!

4. Make a Candy Table

Making a candy table at your wedding reception is another idea growing in popularity. This is mainly because it can be doubly used as wedding favors. Put large bowls of your favorite kinds of candy on the table(be sure you have enough), along with little take home boxes and scoops in the candy for each guest to help themselves to their favorite and take home for later.

5. Wedding Cake

Duh. Seriously, you still want to have your wedding cake, and most everyone is going to want to try it. Have one of your dessert tables at your reception include both wedding cakes, and have someone slice up your cake so that each guest can come by and have a piece of your beautiful wedding cake.

Not everyone will be able to handle a dessert reception with sugar filled snacks only. Be sure to include some sugar free snacks and candy for anyone with diabetes. You will need something for your guests to drink, and the most popular refreshments for a dessert reception is coffee, tea, and of course, milk!

This wedding help site will get you off to the right start. Finding great ideas for planning a dessert reception are just one of many articles, tips and tricks to make your wedding perfect.

Lovely DIY Wedding Cake: easy recipe & video demonstration

About to Get Married — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:51:33 +0000

By Vera Lang

Give the gift of a Lovely Wedding Cake – this video shows you how.

If you don’t want to do the ‘wedding registry’- thing, then perhaps you can consider this: help the bride & groom’s wedding budget by giving them a homemade lovely and delicious Wedding Cake. This is an ideal gift for smaller wedding parties. The gigantic ones are better left to the pro’s I believe. But for small and even medium size weddings, this is doable.

Here is a very easy and great demonstration of how to go about doing the project: how to make the cake, how to slice it, how to stack the various layers securely, how to make professional icing and more…

The part I love the best is the one with all the tips of the trade on how to make professional icing and cake decorations.

Enjoy the video, and making your wedding cake!

Whether you are an advanced ‘chef’ or a novice like myself, you will want to practice this cake a couple of times before you are giving one away as a gift. It looks so delicious, I don’t see any problem with that.

Of course, this video is also of use if you want to make your own wedding cake. However, as a bride, the days leading up to your wedding you are bound to be very busy and making a cake under pressure, is never as much fun. Therefore, if you are keep to have a home made cake like this, ask a friend or a relative who is close to you and who has a knack for baking to take on this project for you. You as the bride could help, but let someone else take charge for making the cake.

Bonus Video

OK. this is unusual, but I’m giving a bonus video, as I want you to make a fabulous cake out of it. I felt that this little video clip on how to make roses from icing would be an excellent addition to the main video. Again, the demonstration is clear and shows how easy it actually is, once you know how to make these roses.

Choosing a Wedding Cake – Have You Consider These Factors?

About to Get Married — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:35:40 +0000

In this article, author Leung Jerry, sets out wedding cake considerations.

The wedding cake is the focus of most of wedding receptions. The tradition of cake cutting is so important that no one will leave the reception before the cake is cut. Accounting for this, it is extremely important to have a good choice of wedding cake. A badly chosen wedding cake may ruin the whole wedding reception. Indeed the wedding cake is also one of the foci for wedding photographs. Normally, the factors we need to consider when choosing a wedding cake are the size of it, the design or the outlook of the cake, and the flavors.

Size of the cake

The first thing a couple needs to consider is the size of the cake. It is vital to understand that a wedding cake is meant to be sharing the joy of wedding but not showing off the wealth of the couple. To this end the size of the cake should be determined by the number of guests.

This seems very straight forward that the size of cake should be determined by the number of guests but many couples make the following mistake – they only count and estimate the number of guests who are going to attend the wedding reception. In fact the couple may want to send a piece of cake to a guest who cannot attend the wedding reception. A couple should keep in mind that the cake is meant to be sharing the joy of getting married, there is no reason why a couple does not share the joy of wedding with the guests who cannot attend the wedding reception.

As a result the size of the cake should be determined by the number of guests who will attend the wedding reception and the number of guests who cannot. Certainly it will be totally a waste if the cake is too big and the cake cannot be shared among the guests if it is too small.

Design of the cake

After the size of the cake is determined, the couple can start to think about the design of the cake. The very first thing a couple needs to do is to get some pictures of wedding cakes from the cake maker or the baker. This is very important since the couple can get a rough idea about what the baker they hire usually makes and also the quality of the cake.

At the same time the couple can take reference for their unique wedding cake design from the photos. When the basic concept of the cake design is formed, the couple can try to visualize the final design of the cake by using the wedding cake design software.

With the cake design software, the couple can try to compose and test different possible design options of the cake. They may want the design of the cake follows the main theme of the wedding reception. Matching the colors will be something essential. On the contrary, the cake can also be designed in a way that it is totally unique and contrasting with the wedding theme.

Wedding cake design software is a very useful tool for visualizing the cake. However, the couple should bear in mind that the software only renders a computer drawing of the cake, it is not the cake itself. The final outcome will be a bit different from what is seen on the monitor.

Flavors of the cake

The design of the cake delivers a visual quality to the guest but the cake itself is for the guest to eat at the end of the day. The taste of the cake will be very essential.

There are plenty of options concerning the flavor of the cake. For examples, a couple can choose fruits, chocolate or even ice-cream. However, if the couple would like to go for the option of ice-cream, they should keep in mind that ice-cream will melt if they are going to have an outdoor wedding reception in summer.

The flavors of the cake also affect the time of ordering the cake. A sponge cake can only last for a few days and it should be prepared three to five days before the wedding reception. On the other hand, a fruit cake can last for a few months and it can be ordered say a month or two before the reception.”

Author Description
Jerry Leung is a wedding invitation designer based in Hong Kong. Leung has a great interest in Chinese Style Wedding Invitations. His works can be found from http://www.983wedding.com, some other vendors of wedding services can be found from http://www.imarry.org and http://us.imarry.org/dir.

The History of the Wedding Cake and Wedding Cake Topper

About to Get Married — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:33:38 +0000

Oh, Sam Smith did it again: he created a great wedding article, that is fun reading.

“One of the center pieces of any modern day wedding is the wedding cake. This has a long history dating back all the day to the Roman Empire. However the wedding cake was very different back then.

The history of the wedding cake dates all the way back to the Roman Empire. At this time wedding cakes were not the sweet iced cakes that we know of today. Back then the cakes were made of a whole wheat flower. These bread cakes were then broken over the brides head and the guests of the wedding would eat the small pieces of broken break eagerly considering it good luck.

Later in the 17th century the wedding cake became known as the bride’s pie or cake. These were typically mince pies made of sweet breads. The one of the main ingredients of these pies was a glass ring. It was believed that whichever lady found the ring would be the next women to be married.

Wedding cakes have historically been white a universal symbol of purity.

Another tradition that was probably first seen in fashion in the 17th century was sleeping with a piece of cake under ones pillow. The cake was broken into small pieces and then past through the bride’s wedding ring. The pieces of cake were then given to the female guests who would put the pieces under their pillow when they went to sleep. It was believed that with the piece of cake under their pillow they would have a dream of the future husband.

The wedding cake topper has a long history and has been a tradition in wedding for a long time. It has been so long in fact that most of the details of when it started are shrouded in mystery. Yet there is no denying the significance of the wedding cake topper.

The story goes that it was first used over 100 years ago when the daughter of a baker was getting married. She asked her dad to make some symbol of the love between her and the her groom that everyone could see.

After several attempts and carefully deliberation the baker finally came up with an idea. He secretly place two figurines on top of the wedding cake. One of them symbolized his daughter and the other her future husband. The baker felt this was the perfect symbol of their love and their unity.

On the wedding day the daughter was so excited to see the cake and she was overjoyed with the beautiful gift her father had given her. The figurines stood in the center of the cake and at the center of the wedding. This showed the importance of the love between the couple!

It is not exactly known if this is a true story or not but it is a fun story at least and one that shows the significance of the wedding cake topper.

These are just a few of the historical traditions of the modern day wedding cake. The wedding cake is one of the oldest traditions of the wedding.”

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How to Hire your Wedding Cake designer

About to Get Married — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:01:32 +0000

This article ‘Tips to Hire Your Wedding Cake Designer’ by Leung Jerry points out how to build an important relationship for your wedding day preparations: your wedding cake designer.

“You will certainly have your own dreamed wedding. You will also have a dreamed wedding cake. There are a lot of different bakers who can take the job to make the cake for you. However, it is not that easy to find a really good and suitable one. You can consider the following issues when you are choosing your cake designer.

Preparation before you meet the designer

You need to prepare a few things before you meet the potential cake designer. First of all you will need to set a realistic budget. There is no point to set a budget which is too low to be true.

Besides, you will probably do your research on the web or bridal magazines. You should put all the pictures and images of wedding cake you like in a folder so that you can discuss it with the designer.

If you would like to make your wedding cake match the color theme of your wedding, you can also prepare swatches of the colors of your wedding so that the cake designer can understand your wedding more.

When you are meeting the designer

When you are meeting the designer, the most important thing is that you need to evaluate if he or she can do what you want. Without any surprise, you will ask for the portfolio of the designer. This is certainly the most important thing you need to ask in order to see if the designer suit you or not.

If possible, you can see if there are some samples of the cake when you meet a designer. You can taste it to see the actual cake. You have to bear in mind that no matter how beautiful a wedding cake looks, it is not a good one if it tastes badly. You may also ask if you can bring some samples back home so that your family can also give you suggestions.

Moreover, you should ask the lead time for the making of the cake. This is very important since you will need to know what is the deadline you need to order the cake. If you would like to use fresh flowers to decorate your cake, you need to ask if the designer will work with your florist to do it. If not, you may need to do that yourself or you have to ask your florist to do it.

You will also need to consider the delivery of the cake. You will ask if the designer will deliver the cake to your wedding reception venue. How much extra will be charged if you need him or her to deliver the cake to the place your request. When the cake is delivered, whether it will be just dropped down or your designer will set it up on the table is also a crucial question to ask.

After you have met the designer

You will certainly meet a few different wedding cake designers before you make the final decision. From the portfolios of them, you can have a brief idea on how creative they are. Besides creativity, you may also consider the personality of the designer. This is important because you will need to meet him or her at least a few times before your cake is delivered. You will certainly choose the one you feel more comfortable with.”

Author Description
Jerry Leung is a wedding invitation designer based in Hong Kong. Leung has a great interest in Chinese Style Wedding Invitations. His works can be found from http://www.983wedding.com, some other vendors of wedding services can be found from http://www.imarry.org and http://us.imarry.org/dir.