While the cakes were much smaller than I thought it would be, it certainly didn't disappoint on taste. We had a 3 tiered cake with 3 different flavors made by Sweets by Cindy out of Junction City. The wedding cake flavors were chocolate bourbon pecan for the bottom, white for the middle, and raspberry white chocolate for the top later. We also had a grooms cake that was in the shape of a pint of Guinness and was peanut butter flavored. For the cake topper I just used some fake hydrandea flowers that were a kind of antique yellowish color. I used them because they were what I had on hand and they ended up matching the gold icing for the designs really well. Cindy said the cakes were made to feed about 75 for the wedding cake and 25 for the grooms cake, though I'm sure you could feed more since her cakes are so rich. I can barely finish a cupcake. The wedding cake cost $200 (about $2.66 per slice) and the Grooms cake was $50 (about $2 per slice). If you are interested in getting cupcakes for your wedding in the Danville area, Cindy is the one to do it because as of my wedding she was selling cupcakes for only $1 each! Though she might charge more if you want the icing decorated in a certain way.
I was actually really amazed at the fact that I barely ate any of my own cake. While I made sure to eat dinner, which everyone says you forget to do, I didn't really eat much cake except what Matt smooshed in my face. I guess after taking some time to re-pretty my face I forgot all about it. I did however eat some of the grooms cake at the end of the night while everyone was cleaning up because I looooove Cindy's peanutbutter cake. However I was a bit sad she didn't following my directions to make the cake dark like guinnes by covering it with chocolate somehow, like just a chocolate frosting of a gnache. Chocolate and peanut butter are natures perfect couple. I was also quite surprised at how i had no clue how to cut into a tier cake. Thank goodness the catering people were there to cut it up for us.
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I made all the extra decor for the table, except we got the giant cake stand from our caterer (at not extra cost might I add).
For the fabric garland I pretty much just took some old quilting fabric I knew I would never use that I had stahed away in the basement and cut it into about 1 foot long strips and 1 inch wide, more or less. I wanted it to have that worn look to it so the thread fraying only added to the charm. I wrap those pieces around some leftover chord i had from the save the date's and voila. I only made about 3 of these about 8 feet long. I found if you have your maid of honor work on it with you and start at opposite ends it gets done in about 20 minutes. Total cost was only about $6 since I already had the chord and most of the the fabric. I just bought 2 more colors of fabric from JoAnn Fabric from their scrap bin.
I also decorated the giant letters on the tables. I found them at TJMaxx for about $5.99 each and 2 of them came in the purple color but one was brown so I just went to Michael's and found some purple paint that matched them almost perfectly. Then all I did was take some pearl swirl stickers and some cute little scrapbooking flowers. I always get my stuff from Hobby Lobby when they have it 50% off, unless I need something right away. But for these items I just waited to see what new sale items would be each week and bought the things I needed as they were on sale. It saves you a ton of money. Total cost was about $30
Finally, I got my toasting flutes and cake knife and server forever and a day ago back when I was working a little cafe called Three Babes and a Monkey (totally not joking) about 8 years ago. I saw these in the gift shop they had and knew they needed to be mine for my wedding day. They were actually what inspired the decor theme for the wedding, what with all the pearls on them. If only the ribbon had been gold instead they would have been even more perfect. I have no clue how much they cost back then.
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