The Wedding Cake Our cake was also made by a friend, for the cost of the ingredients & decorations. I would have been happier with this, I think, if I'd had any idea what I wanted, and known what to ask for. I just asked her to decorate it however she thought was best. I had another, less conventional, idea that might have saved money. We didn't use it because we felt we needed to stay more traditional, for various reasons, but someone else might find it helpful. I considered building a sort of tiered styrofoam cake, and spray-painting it, then baking bunches of cupcakes in silver wrappers. I then would have iced all the cupcakes in white, "covered" the styrofoam form with them by lining them up on each layer, and decorated the whole thing with a topper and ribbon streamers coming from the top.

Other Food


Perhaps the best example in our wedding of cooperation was the food. My mother is the leader of our local homeschool support group, which I was active in as a highschooler. Mom made some "core" foods to be sure we'd have enough, but the ladies in the homeschool group provided the bulk of the food for the reception. Each one who wanted to brought a platter of finger foods to serve about 20. This gave us a wide variety of foods to choose from, without anyone having to do too much work. (Well, okay, Mom did a LOT of work, but she would have had to do a lot MORE without this help!) Drinks were not too complicated, as all we had available was punch. We don't drink, so alcoholic beverages were not an issue. You can't really tell in this photo, but there were two rows of about 3-4 tables each, filled with food.
Some of the food at the reception More of the food at the reception