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I've decided I'd like to make my own flowers for the wedding and cake with family help of course 
Has anyone ever had experience using Gladiolus as arm bouqets for bridesmaids--how many stems did you use? Whats the average cost?
How about Gladiolus for boutennieres? I would be adding hypericum berries to it as well.
What about using alstromeria?
Now for the cake, I plan on renting the supplies from Bulk Barn, and getting all the ingredients there too. It will be 3 different round cakes, all the same size (enough to feed 160 people). The cake toppers for each cake will be outdoor themed. I wanted to put a few evergreens on one of the cakes, as it represents "Everlasting Love"! How can I make this work without grossing out my guests (who are all city folk) with pine or spruce bows on a cake?
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| i'm not sure about the flowers or the evergreen, but i just wanna make sure that you check with your venue to make sure they'll allow you to make your own cake first...some venues will only allow cakes that are made in a licensed bakery because of insurance purposes...so just check with them. i was going to make my own cake, but we weren't allowed to.
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LnG (3/21/2008)
i'm not sure about the flowers or the evergreen, but i just wanna make sure that you check with your venue to make sure they'll allow you to make your own cake first...some venues will only allow cakes that are made in a licensed bakery because of insurance purposes...so just check with them. i was going to make my own cake, but we weren't allowed to.
YES - definately check! My cousin (who is a baker) was going to do my cake for me but since she cant do it in her bakery (because she's flying in from out of town), they wont let us! So we're having to get it made.
~~Soon to be Marie Ikonen~~ The Big Day:
August 23, 2008
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| Since your worried about what will be on the cake why not make it fake? Then serve sheet cakes Bulk barn has preformed shapes that you just stack and decorate.
~This is the day I will marry my best friend, The one I laugh with, live for and love~ May 31, 2008
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I think i heard from a baker that you can do a cake up to a maximum of 3 days in advance... I'm not sure if i've ever tasted a 3 day cake, but maybe you can do a practice one to see if its good. that will open up your time line a bit the day before the wedding.
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I was also thinking of doing my own cake for our wedding when FH talked me out of it. I still did a trial run before hand and I would agree with the others on here to give yourself a good couple of days to do the cake. I baked it and let it cool one day. I iced it with buttercream icing the next day and added the fondant icing. We ate it on day 3 and it still tasted really really yummy. We used Betty Crockers Vanilla cake and buttercream icing. The cake lasted to about day 5 before the buttercream underneith started causing the fondant to fall off. Also I did not put the cake in the freezer or the fridge at any time. We're going to buy a cake though now because after seeing how long this took and how much other stuff has to get done before the wedding I personally don't want to be worrying over my cake. Good luck with your planning!
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Hmm, I've already cancelled the cake bakers deposit, and there are no other places in this small town that will bake a cake. Besides, I've kindly asked my mother-in law to be if she'd like to do it (she likes baking) and she agreed. Now I feel stuck and like I will have to go through this whole baking process---I will have to do a trial run for sure!
What we've actually planned to do is have a 10, 8, & 6" cakes with the toppers on it, which will feed immediate family. And then we'll have two huge slab/sheet cakes for the guests.
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What we've actually planned to do is have a 10, 8, & 6" cakes with the toppers on it, which will feed immediate family. And then we'll have two huge slab/sheet cakes for the guests.This is sorta what we did, only I didn't make it myself. I asked my caterer if he could make 3 different sized cakes (12, 8, 10 inches) in three flavours with buttercream icing. And he did, for 65$ !!!!!! And it was amazing! Then I just added the flowers myself. We had 110 guests and didn't have another slab cake. I don't think more than a few pieces were eaten anyways and we had all the leftovers at our brunch the next day. I'm glad I saved myself the stress of making them AND that I didn't pay hundreds of dollars to a cake maker. 
Here are the cakes
Chris Expecting baby #1 May 21st-ish, 2008
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