Creative Wedding Ideas? Oh, yes!
by V.V. Denman | @vvdenman
Welcome to the 8th installment in the MOB Blog Series.
Two months ago, when I became a mother-of-the-bride, I didn’t realize how much things have changed.
The Bride of the 80′s:
In the recent dark ages (when I got married), weddings were all pretty much the same.
Every bride walked down the aisle to Wagner’s Bridal March, had a short ceremony, then formed a l-o-n-g receiving line. The bride’s table consisted of a multi-layered cake flanked by nuts, pillow mints, and a crystal punch bowl. The groom’s table held some variation of chocolate cake with a silver coffee service.
It never occurred to anybody to serve food. Only people in movies did that.
The Bride of 2012:
Wagner’s Bridal March? Not hardly.
A receiving line? Who knows what that is!
Monstrous wedding cake? In this economy?
Pillow mints? Be serious.
This MOB is not complaining.
In fact, if I ignore the endless work, the sleepless nights, and the nauseating waves of panic, I can honestly say that . . . I’m having fun.
Things have changed for the better. In 2012 it’s appropriate, even expected, for us to do whatever we want.
So . . .
Big Boy isn’t much of a cake person, so we’re serving brownies, sugar cookies, and Snickers over in the Groom’s corner. And our guests will sip some chocolate milk (Big Boy‘s beverage of choice).
We had considered cupcakes for Precious Daughter‘s table, *see this post* but we changed our minds (which is also encouraged). Now we’re planning multiple cakes.
We’ll have a small, three-tiered extravaganza made by our good friend, Beth, over at the Sweet Factory, and we’ll surround it with eight to ten cakes of various shapes, flavors, and styles, served with pink lemonade and iced coffee.
And . . . only because we want to and not because we have to . . . we’re serving Italian pasta salad, rolled pepperoni bread, and bruschetta with tomato and basil. Maybe even some chicken.
Oh yes. Change is very, very good.
Image via Project Wedding. Click on photo to view website.
What creative wedding ideas have you seen lately?
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We went to my husband’s cousin’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. The groom is a huge Texas Rangers fan, and they had this amazing Rangers cake, complete with a baseball and jersey on it. I’d never seen anything like it at a wedding, so you’re right – whatever you guys want! Sounds like it’s going to be a beautiful, fun wedding!
My daughter’s fiance is a football player, so we’re decorating with football stuff, but not a cake. That sounds amazingly cool.
It’s so fun to be able to personalize the event for the bride and groom.
Chocolate Kalua Cake for the wedding along with simple mexican food for the guests. Oh, a candy table. Hurricane type clear containers filled with different candies, salt water taffy, chocolates etc(anything you like) and bags for the guests to put their candy into. There were scoops in the candy containers. Also, sodas, right out of the bottle!!
I’ve seen a “candy bar” at a few weddings, and thought it was so cute. And yummy. Jessica wanted one at first, but changed her mind. She was considering having the attendants’ favorite candies and using small labels. So many ideas…so little time.
http://ruffledblog.com/victorian-steampunk-wedding/
Varina, this is a wedding that Rebecca was the Maid of Honor in and they had the most simple, but really cool ideas. Here are some of the pictures.
How beautiful! Looks like a movie. You can tell the bride and groom put a lot of themselves into the event. I bet it was a fun wedding to attend.
Sounds delicious! We LOVED our candy bar.
We have TONS of glass jars for them if you need…
Ha. My GIRLS loved your candy bar. And everything else about your wedding. It was beautiful and FUN. We’ve thought about it a lot while making our own plans.