Hi Blog World! I have been extremely busy! During the holidays, I took a break from the world of "wedding planning", but I looked at a calender one day and suddenly I realized I had under 200 days to go! (as of today 134 days..Yiikkeesss) I thought to myself " I better get busy". So, I spent a week trying to catch up on all the things that I haven't gotten to already. During this time, I had to think outside of the box becasue I love being different and I was also trying to catch back up finacially. The holidays took a chunk out of our wedding budget! Needless to say, God will always provide..so I didn't stress. I just took a walk around different stores to see what I could find! And to my amazement, I think I did PRETTY DARN GOOD! Take a look at some of my wedding checks!!!

Wedding Shoes..Check!
Flower girl baskets...Check!
Card Holder..Check!
Bridesmaids Jewelry...Check!
Mom's Dress..Check!
Groom and Groomsman Attire..Check!
Cake...Check!!!!
Ring Bearer Box..Check!!!
Linens..Check!
Design of Invites...Check!!!

Coming Soon...
Dress, Grooms Ring & Wedding Gift, Ringbearer and Flower Girl Gifts, Flower Girl Dresses, Actual Finished Invites/RSVP Suite

i'll give you a sneak peek of my amazing and affordable finds!

150 glass tea light holders...purchased from a knottie "kaykay". I think I paid $30 bucks..I also got 6 glass cylinders as well (sorry, no pic yet)

I know, I know...why is my bird cage card holder blue and not purple?! LOL Well, this was the only color Marshalls Homegoods had, so I purchased it and added it to my fiance's list of "things to do". He is going to get it professionally painted for me either a metallic pearl white or a metallic purple...who knows!?...Cost.. VERY AFFORDABLE!

My lovely ivory Nina Shoes. yup..I fell into the pit of loving Nina Shoes..guess what..they were only $54 at Macys!!!!! These bad boys usually run $99 and up on the nina website, or zappos..but I caught them on sale!!! Last pair in my size!! Yayyy meeee!

My cute little flower girl baskets... $3 bucks a piece at Michaels'! i'm going to jazz them up closer to the wedding.

My ring bearer box and accessories box. I found them both at Marshalls Home goods. There was no way I was passing these up! They just caught my eye! The big box..I am going to put my jewelry, shoes and maybe my veil..not sure. But it ran me $12 bucks! The little cute box..well its not really a ring bearer box, but it is for my wedding. I purchased this for about $6 bucks! You can't tell, but both boxes are ivory and are decked out in crystals which reflect color. I love it!

Cake!! Yummy!! So this is a pic of knottie "KayKay's cake...Gorgwous right! I am going to use this as inspiration because I would love this romantic look with purple, pink and orange roses. My cake will be 4 tier, 4 flavors...red velvet, lemon, pineapple and chocolate. We just couldnt decide on one flavor..so why not 4! LOL My cake was ordered at Hollies Bakery in Redford Mi...cost us about $400 bucks

Above cake #1

Right now I am in the process of selecting a wedding cake! I am so excited about this. There are so many decisions to be made! Round or Square? 3 layers? 4 layers? Maybe 5 layers? Fondant or buttercream? Freash flowers or elaborate design? Vanilla, Strawberry, Red Velvet? Chocolate? You see what I'm going through? I have so many decisions!

Anyway, before I spill the beans on what I really desire, I thought I'd share a brief history of how the wedding cake tradition came to be.

Wedding cakes dates back to the Roman era.
Certainly the Romans were not in the habit of baking elaborate or elegant wedding cakes with buttercream icing and custom wedding-cake toppers. Usually they used loaves of wheat bread. The loaf of bread was broken over the heads of the newlyweds to bring them luck and prosperity. Sometimes it was broken only over the bride’s head, usually by the groom.

The crumbs of wedding cake, that landed on the floor symbolized good luck and fertility for the bride and groom, and it was considered good luck for guests to eat the crumbs of "wedding cake". Single women scrambled for the grains to ensure their own betrothals.


During the middle ages the bridal - wedding cakes were simple biscuits or scones.

At that time each guest brought one small bridal cake to the wedding (somewhat bigger than cupcake wedding cake of nowadays). They were piled on top of each other, and the bride and groom had to kiss across the top of the piled cakes to bring them good luck in their marriage.

The history of wedding cakes goes on: In the seventeenth century French bakers stacked the wheat buns and coated them with icing. This was the beginning of new history of wedding cakes, they start looking like ours. The typical wedding cake today is composed of several cakes stacked in layers and the whole thing covered with icing.

Shapes range from: square, round, rectangular, heart etc... But there are so many options and design ideas that it can be difficult to choose the one that is just right for you. You would also like to keep the wedding cake price at the reasonable level, while having elegant and classy cake.

In the past, wedding cakes were considered a symbol, and everyone wanted the same bland white cake with white icing because that was the symbol. Luckily, the days of those boring wedding cakes are past. Today’s bridal cakes can be a culinary and design extravaganza.

The bride creates or finds a design she likes, and the caterer hires a bakery to create her unique wedding cake or bride does it herself.

At the reception the bride cuts the first two slices with the groom’s hand placed over hers. The groom feeds the bride the first slice and then the bride feeds the groom the second. This symbolizes the support they will provide to each other.

I hope you found the history of wedding cakes interesting :-) You may share it with the guests at your reception and have some fun together.

Source: http://www.cakechannel.com/history-of-wedding-cakes.html


Here are some designs I'm thinking about. Tell me what you think!

Above..cake #2
Directly below..cake #3

Cake directly above #4
Cake Directly below #5

Final cake..#6