Jellie wobbles into her MFW journey

Froggy-G

*Jellie* wrote: »

Thanks so much for those ideas. Really helpful as my brain freezes as soon as I start thinking about it.

Jellie :j

Is the buffet for the wedding???
If so let me know, and I will forward the menu we had for ours..

By the way you and your future hubby are getting married, therefore it is your choice, not your family's!! As long as you are both happy, thats the main thing!
As to decorations, you don't need much... A local florist can make a couple of table centres.. We had an old fashion white bird cage for guests to drop off their cards, and asked our respective mums to make a montage of pictures of our youth to put on thattable, while guests filled out the guest book.. It was a real hit at a very low cost: cage £5, wedding book £4.50, picture frames £2.50 x2...

Hope this helps

Froggy :j

*Jellie*

Buffet is for Boxing day- have just asked for your advice on your thread!
We're going to a restaurant for our wedding meal.
Thanks for the wedding ideas- birdcage sounds good and will talk to local folrist about flowers. I'm still trying to decide whether to go for silk bouquets.

Thanks for your help x

Froggy-G

*Jellie* wrote: »

Buffet is for Boxing day- have just asked for your advice on your thread!
We're going to a restaurant for our wedding meal.
Thanks for the wedding ideas- birdcage sounds good and will talk to local folrist about flowers. I'm still trying to decide whether to go for silk bouquets.

Thanks for your help x

Ask around in your family, there's always someone who does flower arrangements, its got to be cheaper than a florist, and you are more likely to get what you want..

Froggy x

*Jellie*

Tempted to have a go myself Froggy as i'd be happy with something simple!

*Jellie*

HELP PLEASE
Have made my first fruit cake for OH's bday under his tuition. Put marzipan on and am icing tonight with fondant icing. I want to surprise OH by decorating it but need some ideas which would be suitable for a beginner. I'm usually ok at this kind of thing but don't want to attempt anything too complex.

BeauBelle

Hi Jellie

Cake sounds lovely. For my 1st iced birthday cake I cut balloon shapes out of the fondant and coloured them with a bit of food colouring and they looked great. You could use those icing pens to do the string or I just cut thin strips of fondant. Either way a bunch of balloons gets my vote.

Good Luck

BB
xx

*Jellie*

Thanks BB- a great idea and I'm sure I could manage it! The icing looks ok but looks a bit bumpy to a perfectionist Some well placed balloons would do the trick- possibly a matching ribbon around the side. Can't wait to have a try now!

NSD today. Will have to spend over weekend as have 2 secret Santa pressies to find and a couple of Christmas bits. Then again have tons of Boots points so might manage to make them money neutral! Ought to get tree sorted soon too.

*Jellie*

Got the cake iced- couldn't get a balloon cutter so did stars. Used light blue edible lustre spray all over then dark blue stars round side and on top with gold edible beads round outside of the central star. It looked ok and tasted good!

I know I'm getting some money for Christmas so have splashed out on kenwood chef titanium. Will be here this week so I can use it to prepare things for Boxing day. You'll all have to nag me to make sure I keep using it regularly!

BeauBelle

Cake sounds beautiful Jellie, hope your DH liked it!

BB

katsu

Jellie,

For the tables at my reception I bought wide and relatively shallow glass bowls from ikea and then I put a tall and fat candle in the centre of the bowl (balanced in coloured gravel but you could stick it down with bluetac or wax I guess), added water say 1/2 way up the candle and then floated flower heads (themed colours/flowers) around the candle. Dead easy and looked pretty. You can give the bowls away afterwards as gifts.

That way you save money on florists without needing flower arranging skills.