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When we first sat down to think about our wedding, cake was not high on the list of priorities; food yes, cake, not so much. Don’t get me wrong… I am a big fan of cake, and I love looking at all the inspiration for gorgeous wedding cakes around the internet, but the idea of spending hundreds of pounds on a confectionery masterpiece just doesn’t appeal to me.
BUT… I’m in love with a cake, and an extremely expensive cake in particular… one simple, gorgeous, expensive cake:
sourceI love the clean simplicity – and the polka dots. But I don’t like the price tag – I mean I’m sure its a fantastic cake but seriously what must be the mark-up on the ingredients to charge over a thousand pounds for CAKE?! Read the rest of this entry »
After the actual ‘getting married bit’, good food and great music were the next things on our list of priorities. Today, it’s about the food!
We knew early on that we wanted to give a nod to the Mister’s Texan and Mexican heritage with the food at our reception, and with many local caterers offering BBQ as an option it wasn’t a terribly difficult idea to follow through on. However, given that our wedding is in April, and the good old English weather can’t be relied upon, we didn’t want to actually risk any outdoor cooking. Dedicating a bit of time to trawling the Internet for local caters yielded a fair few results, all of whom seemed to be happy enough that “BBQ” was still an option even on a rainy day.
Yesterday we had a meeting with our potential caterers. They’ve come up with some awesome ideas for our wedding breakfast menu (but that’s a story for another day). One of the questions they asked was when are we planning to have the ‘toasts’ – before, during or after the meal. My instinct is to save them until after the food; people will be hungry by the time they’ve spent an hour milling about on arrival at our reception so why make them wait longer than necessary to chow down? As I thought about it I suggested that perhaps once people were seated with cups of tea and coffee after dessert would probably be the best time for speeches – until I realised people would have cups of tea and coffee to ‘toast’ with and not glasses of champagne! This is where my mum jokingly said, “well you can have tea and toast then!”.
Well who says you have to serve champagne in order for people to make a toast? Who actually LIKES champagne anyway? Sure people will drink it if it’s there, but actually is there any other reason to buy/serve it than because tradition dictates you should? Heck, people can raise their teacups to us if they like, and if they don’t have a drink to hand they can applaud us can’t they?!
Is champagne really necessary at a wedding?
