Invitations & wedding cake!

Bob_dole

Hi everyone

We have a lot of our wedding now sorted thankfully... Even the person making the cake, but they unfortunately had to cancel! We're on a tight budget for the cake and invitations, can anyone recommend anyone who can do either at a very reasonable rate (as opposed to the usual channels which are proving quite pricey)!

We are getting married in Carlow.

Many thanks in advance!

blindside88

I'm getting married in carlow as well, a poster on here is an art student and is doing our invites an a very good rate and they look great (ill pass on details if you like). Alternatively you could buy pre made invites and print the insert yourself (not my cup of tea but really cuts down on cost)

TAPA2012

Bob_dole wrote: »

Hi everyone

We have a lot of our wedding now sorted thankfully... Even the person making the cake, but they unfortunately had to cancel! We're on a tight budget for the cake and invitations, can anyone recommend anyone who can do either at a very reasonable rate (as opposed to the usual channels which are proving quite pricey)!

We are getting married in Carlow.

Many thanks in advance!

Marks and spencers do wedding cakes. They are very reasonably priced. Buy some ribbon and decorate with a single flower on top and buy some similar colour netting or fabric and place under the cake stand and fluff it up! It will look amazing!

You could go with another cake supplier and get a dummy layer made so that could cut costs. Bake the cake yourself and just get it iced is a great way to save money too.

I think diy wedding invites are the best way to go if you have a printer. There's loads of youtube videos out there to give you some inspiration. All you need is coloured card and paper and ribbon and envelopes! Lots of tips out there to.make them look extra special! Top tip is to put coloured paper on the inside of the envelopes. Esp if you buy cheap envelopes this can make the invitations look alot better! Its a great way to inject some personal touches into your wedding day and let your personalities shine! Downside is it takes alot if time and patience but you'll be so happy with them!


Best of luck!

Calhoun

TAPA2012 wrote: »

Marks and spencers do wedding cakes. They are very reasonably priced. Buy some ribbon and decorate with a single flower on top and buy some similar colour netting or fabric and place under the cake stand and fluff it up! It will look amazing!

This if your on a budget, my father/step mother did this for their wedding and there was no way to tell. Also wedding cake really is only for cutting and maybe putting out later on in the night for people to eat, it ends up looking like cut up crap and from my experience working in a hotel no one eats it or very little.

Cerulean Chicken

Calhoun wrote: »

This if your on a budget, my father/step mother did this for their wedding and there was no way to tell. Also wedding cake really is only for cutting and maybe putting out later on in the night for people to eat, it ends up looking like cut up crap and from my experience working in a hotel no one eats it or very little.

If your cake looks like cut up crap then it was a crap cake to start with tbh.

OP do you really want cake or just having it because it's expected? If you're not cakey people I'd just leave it out, save you some money.

Calhoun

Cerulean Chicken wrote: »

If your cake looks like cut up crap then it was a crap cake to start with tbh.

OP do you really want cake or just having it because it's expected? If you're not cakey people I'd just leave it out, save you some money.

I meant more it all looks like white icing cut up afterwards, having done too many weddings to count it all ends up in the same place at the end of the night.

My main point though was it was very possible to get something that looks quite nice and presentable for pictures that you dont have to spend allot of money on.

RickyBobby1

I thought the mark and Spencer's wedding cakes are only sold up north?No way are we spending much on the cake or the invitations.We are getting our invitations on eBay for a fraction of the cost!

Cerulean Chicken

RickyBobby1 wrote: »

I thought the mark and Spencer's wedding cakes are only sold up north?No way are we spending much on the cake or the invitations.We are getting our invitations on eBay for a fraction of the cost!

No they're sold here too, only fruit though, all other flavours and more designs available up north.

RickyBobby1

Cerulean Chicken wrote: »

No they're sold here too, only fruit though, all other flavours and more designs available up north.

Thanks Il check them out.INot too bothered about,I was at a wedding recently and nobody was too interested in the cake to be honest.
I have a friend whose from letterkenny and she offered to pick one up for me.

deelite

Every wedding my mother goes to she wraps the slice of wedding cake in tissue and puts it in her bag. She remembers it's there whenever she needs her "good bag" again (generally speaking about 3 months later) - she then gives it to one of her single grand-daughters to sleep on - so they can dream of the man they want to marry and get him!!!! - this has never ever worked.

However she has given it to women who are having problems trying to conceive - and this has worked.

King Krib

deelite wrote: »

Every wedding my mother goes to she wraps the slice of wedding cake in tissue and puts it in her bag. She remembers it's there whenever she needs her "good bag" again (generally speaking about 3 months later) - she then gives it to one of her single grand-daughters to sleep on - so they can dream of the man they want to marry and get him!!!! - this has never ever worked.

However she has given it to women who are having problems trying to conceive - and this has worked.

I've never heard that about wedding cake before- couples trying to conceive??? Has that really worked?

TAPA2012

Just an old wives tale.........but more and more scientific tests are seeing unbelievable positive effects from placebo pills.....I suppose it wouldn't do any harm......as the smell from the cake might trigger the memories and feelings of blissful happiness from your own wedding day.....the mind is wonderful thing!

pwurple

Hah, or maybe the stench of the rotting cake makes people roll over to the other side if the bed!

deskgirl

If your budget is tight then just cut the cake out altogether? That will leave you with a bit extra for the invites. We aren't bothering with a cake as IMO it doesn't add anything to the day and I know I would never frame a picture of cutting the cake.

deelite

King Krib wrote: »

I've never heard that about wedding cake before- couples trying to conceive??? Has that really worked?

Yes it has worked .

My mother would be "old school" and has a heart of gold and talks to everybody especially at weddings. According to her (and there is some logic to her thinking) that a tier of the wedding cake is a symbol of fertility - as it's kept for the bridal's couple first child's christening - but very few couples actually keeps that tier any more so there's a possibility that you could be sleeping on the "fertility" tier. It's not scientific and as somebody else mentioned about the placebo effect.

I spoke to my mother last night and here's what she said - her words not mine
Its not going to do any harm at all - wrap the small bit (matchbox size) of cake in White tissue (I think that must be because that was the only colour napkin on the table) and put under your pillow - and forget about it. You can also repeat the process for your husbands pillow (but don't tell him cause he won't believe it). Wedding cake won't go off for about a year - cause if it did what's the point of having a tier for the christening!!!! Also this won't work for those new fan dangled chocolate wedding cakes - they'd melt under the pillow.

Cerulean Chicken

Fruit tiers of wedding cakes were meant to be kept for christenings when christenings were 8, 9, 10 months after a wedding, not 2+ years later (Gotta love contraception). Keeping a cake that long means there is a good chance it will have gone off, the almond paste can go mouldy. And nobody wants to eat 2 year old fruit cake at a christening.

Pretty sure if you slept with cake under your pillow for a while the only pitter patter of tiny feet you'd hear would be your new pet mice.

deelite

Cerulean Chicken wrote: »

Pretty sure if you slept with cake under your pillow for a while the only pitter patter of tiny feet you'd hear would be your new pet mice.

:D

jjdub1

Regarding the top tier, icing and almond paste are removed before storage and every few months a measure of whiskey is poured over the cake. My sister-in-law did this and we all munched unknowingly on a 9 year old cake at the christening of their first child

Cerulean Chicken

jjdub1 wrote: »

Regarding the top tier, icing and almond paste are removed before storage and every few months a measure of whiskey is poured over the cake. My sister-in-law did this and we all munched unknowingly on a 9 year old cake at the christening of their first child

Some people leave the icing on, this is where they run into problems. If you keep feeding a cake raw alcohol eventually the cake will become saturated and wet, like a cake that hasn't been baked enough. I tasted fruit cake at a wedding last year and nearly gagged, it was absolutely soaked wet with alcohol. I love fruit cake so was very disappointed!

Babooshka

Cerulean Chicken wrote: »

Some people leave the icing on, this is where they run into problems. If you keep feeding a cake raw alcohol eventually the cake will become saturated and wet, like a cake that hasn't been baked enough. I tasted fruit cake at a wedding last year and nearly gagged, it was absolutely soaked wet with alcohol. I love fruit cake so was very disappointed!

See...so just skip the cake and buy your guests more booze...it's Ireland, they'll love you for it