Much more than a sweet finale to the reception meal, wedding cakes are a major style statement. And trends in wedding cakes, like all other wedding details, evolve with the times. The wedding cake presents a perfect opportunity for creative brides to play with shape, color and embellishments. For those of you who need a little inspiration, consult this list of top trends for wedding cakes in 2009.Back to Buttercream Buttercream was once the traditional frosting for wedding cakes, but sleek cakes came into favor, and rolled fondant became the frosting of choice. Not any more – thanks to advanced tools and techniques that allow buttercream to look as smooth as fondant, cakes iced in buttercream are again the norm. We love this trend, since buttercream frosting tastes better, has natural ingredients, and costs less than fondant. Now you can literally have your stylishly sleek cake – and eat it too.Chocolate Face Brides have bucked the traditional white wedding cake for the last few years, but today´s brides are no longer hiding decadent chocolate behind a shield of white frosting for appearances sake. Dark chocolate is now front and center on the face of the cake, as chocolate or mocha cakes are appropriately decked in chocolate mousse or whipped chocolate frosting. The result is a full blown chocolate dessert that tastes as good as it looks.Blue Rules Shades of blue dominate the 2009 wedding décor palette, and your wedding cake is a perfect canvas to incorporate this hot shade. Consider a cake saturated in turquoise, periwinkle, or even navy, and embellish it with complimenting colors like silver, white, grey, lavender, or yellow. Square Mini Cakes Cupcake towers in lieu of wedding cakes have been around for awhile, but brides are making cupcakes interesting again by playing with shape and size. Brides are stacking square shaped mini-cakes (slightly larger than cupcakes) adorned with flowers or dressed as presents for a completely different take on the cupcake frenzy.Think Pink Pink – the perpetual hot color for weddings – had begun to fall out of favor as brides experimented with more non-traditional hues like browns, grays, orange, and even black. But pink is back in a big way, and brides are incorporating the hue into their wedding cakes. Pink instantly freshens-up classic white: Tone down an all pink cake with white floral or lace details, or dress up a white cake with pink embellishments.Scripted Text Wedding cakes adorned with calligraphy-style motifs and writing is one of the year´s hottest trends. Create an antiqued look with black writing on a white or ivory cake, and get creative with the text. Some options? Write a favorite poem or verse, your wedding vows, or words representative of your wedding theme – such as names of flowers for a garden wedding or types of shells at a beach wedding.Groom´s Cakes The old Southern tradition of the groom´s cake is shedding its regional trappings and growing in popularity throughout the nation. And no, it doesn´t have to be the iconic red velvet armadillo from “Steel Magnolias.” Today´s grooms cakes, now just as elaborate as the wedding cake itself, often reflect the groom´s interest in a dramatic and whimsical expression; a deer grooms cake for an avid hunter, shaped like a race car for an diehard Nascar fan, or decked with his favorite sports team logo. Get even more wedding cakes ideas and trends in this complete wedding cakes guide.
Archive for May, 2010
7 New Trends for Wedding Cakes
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Two Last Minute Wedding Party Favor Ideas
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Neglecting to shop early enough in the process to get wedding favors is one problem that I see all the time when couples are planning their wedding. This makes sense because of all the details, but it can lead to you needing some last minute wedding party favor ideas.
Even when you think you’re allowing yourself enough time you can end up running out and feel you are down to the last minute on many of these details for your wedding. This creates stress, and when you add to that the need for wedding party gifts for your guests, you can end up in a real bind.
In this article we want to take a look at a few ideas on how you can still give your guests nice wedding souvenirs, even if you are shopping at the very last minute.
One problem with waiting until the last minute is you eliminate most opportunities to personalize your wedding party favors. Many of these type of gifts would normally include the names of the bride and groom as well as the date of the wedding.
Now you can usually figure that personalizing your favors is going to take at least a couple of weeks. You have to calculate lead time that allows for shipping as well. So what do you do, if you still would like to provide a gift for your guests.
One idea that has bailed out many a wedding party is to give flowers. You may have a floral centerpiece arranged for the tables at the reception. You can contact the florist and have them add an additional flower for each guest that will be attending the wedding.
Because they are a symbol of love and tie in so well with the theme of most weddings flowers are one gift that never disappoints. You will be able to match those with the centerpiece so it appears that you have planned this in advance even though it may be last minute.
Another idea that is popular, and yet simple, is to use candy. Candy is a gift that is very quick and easy to put together and you can put them into bags and have them ready in a very short amount of time.
You can control your costs by buying in bulk and then adding them to the bags. Hard candy, individually wrapped candies, or miniature chocolate bars all work well.
This is two last minute wedding party favor ideas that can get you out of the tight spot that you may be in and are are always sure to please. Do not feel you need to neglect this important tradition even if you are down to the last minute.
Best Advice For Relationship and Marriage Breakups
Monday, May 17th, 2010There many reasons why a marriage fails. Maybe your in that situation and your looking for answers on “how you I can save your marriage after your split”? There is some great information to guide you on how you can get your love back in less time than you might of thought. First and foremost your going to have to take a look and evaluate your marriage. Can you save it? It could be a no to that question and have no choice but to move on. But, if you see hope there is still love and caring in your relationship, then your going to need to take a look at yourself and see what role you played in the break up of your marriage. You need to remember that this is not about blaming anyone, it’s about you taking an honest look at your past mistakes that were harmful to your marriage. these type of attitudes and mistakes on how you and your spouse to this time in your marriage. You need to stand up and truly commit to reversing your bad habits now you will made huge strides in to saving your marriage. You also need to consider that you cannot pressure your spouse to love you or even be open to working on your relationship. Your spouse will either be open or not to trying to work things out, so first question you want to ask your spouse is where do they stand on getting the relationship back together again. If the answer is they see no hope in reconciling then you need to move on and maybe give your spouse some time away to cool down. But, after you and your spouse are honest and come into agreement that you both can work on your relationship and save your marriage, opens the doors to options you both have to reunite again and truly be happy again. Now one important option at this point to consider would be going to a relationship or marriage counselor. This would be important because you will have a non-bias third party involved to help you both overcome some of the bad habits in the relationship and have better communication between each other.
You don’t want to try to do this on your own just for the fact that both of you are likely feel hurt and than start criticizing each other of the bad habits you both have. So have a non-bias third party is first step towards a positive outcome. Just remember not all counselors are created equal. There are some that are better than others. Just make sure that both you and your spouse are comfortable with which counselor you choose. Also its a good chance that the problems can be fix without a third party. The bottom line is the marriage can be saved after a break up. But it will take both of you to mend it can’t be done alone. If your spouse is open to change their bad habits as you are too there is a great chance the marriage can be saved and be able to hold your love in your arms again and feel bond again in less time than you think.