If you’re not a fan of wedding cakes or only want to get a small one to cut, finding frugal dessert options for your guests can be a challenge. Thankfully most of your guests will be happy to have something different besides cake. If you need
This is my first post as a married lady! Kyle and I had a fabulous wedding with our friends and family on April 25th and I am so excited to share everything about it. When the professional pictures come back, there will absolutely be a long
Dylan & SaraAfter the initial shock and excitement of getting engaged wears off, the wedding planning and decision-making start to set in. Location, timing, who’s going to be in the wedding, flowers, the rings, etc. – those are all important things to factor into the wedding
Lets face it, you can’t exactly have your cake and eat it too, especially during a wedding. As our wedding gets closer, we are faced with the details. The small ones, the important ones, and the sweet ones. When we began meeting with bakeries for our
For my fiancé and I, food is at the top of our priorities list for our big day. After a wedding, we always discuss the food (of course we discussed the bride & groom, but food was always discussed), so we knew we wanted to have
As I mentioned in our budget post, dessert is among our top priorities, so we thoroughly enjoyed choosing our desserts for the wedding. TJ and I both love sweets and often spend our weekends exploring the many cake, cupcake, and dessert shops in the Triangle. When
Throughout our wedding planning journey, my fiancé, TJ, and I haven’t experienced many controversies. We are truly lucky in the sense that our family wants us to have what we want at our wedding. However, as mentioned in my previous post, the least important item to
Here at The Budget Savvy Bride, we love a good wedding candy buffet. We’ve talked about this fact several times before — I had a candy buffet at my wedding, and a few of our bride bloggers have shared tips for planning a candy buffet and
Our venue comes with an alcohol permit, which is pretty sweet because it means we can buy our own booze and do it on the cheap. Here are our tips if you are going to buy your own wedding alcohol: 1) Think about what is important
When it comes to entertaining– whether it’s a dinner party or your wedding day– it’s always good to treat your guests well. It’s nice to anticipate things your guests might want or need because it makes them feel cared for and special. One simple and inexpensive treat
Q&A with Nisa Burns Bride-to-be, chef and author of Kitchenability 101 kitchenability.com What are some ways that couples can infuse their personal tastes into their wedding menu in a unique way? Some ways to infuse your own personal taste in a wedding menu are incorporating
Desert is one area where my fiance and I have done some serious compromising. For starters, I wanted cupcakes. They’re fun, you can get them in a variety of flavors, colors, and there is less to clean up at the end of the event (not that
Our wedding is going to be at 11 am on a Saturday morning. I hope all our guests can enjoy a warm and lazy summer Saturday while witnessing and celebrating with us. To that end, I didn’t want a fussy, sit down meal for our reception.
For our actual wedding, our destination, we did not need to worry about a caterer or anything like that. We just choose our available options from a list. (That also means no taste-testing, all you nervous brides!) However, we are having two events. About a month
My favorite gentleman and I met when were 11 years old, and started out as friends. Early in our planning we decided to have some nods to friendship and childhood present at our wedding; our cake has in bold capital letters “FIRST COMES FRIENDSHIP” and our “guestbook” is
