Cake: Before you hit the bakery, scan through images of celeb wedding cakes to take along as reference. Your cake maker will be able to give you a more accurate estimate on cost and you'll be sure you're getting what you want. Though this may be the moment to call on handy friends and relatives who can probably create a fair copy of a simpler cake -- I loved Elizabeth Banks's simple, orchid-garnished cake.
A few more examples:
-- Budget Conscious? Copy Joely Fisher's cute cupcake tower by making your own using Mighty Appetite blogger Kim O'Donnel's chocolate peanut butter mousse-filled recipe.
-- Have money to burn? Copy Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas's four-foot tall five-tiered cake, which was covered in thousands of edible sugar flowers and created by cake designer Mich Turner, who has also designed wedding cakes for Madonna, Pierce Brosnan, David Beckham and the royal family.
-- Kitschy more your style? Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro (no longer married) interspersed layers of oreo cheesecake, chocolate cake and strawberry shortcake with flowers and Swarovski crystals -- meant to mirror the bling on Electra's gown.
-- If it's not perfect, don't sweat it. You're in good company. Then first daughter Jenna Bush dulce de leche cake was a little off balance.
A few more examples:
-- Budget Conscious? Copy Joely Fisher's cute cupcake tower by making your own using Mighty Appetite blogger Kim O'Donnel's chocolate peanut butter mousse-filled recipe.
-- Have money to burn? Copy Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas's four-foot tall five-tiered cake, which was covered in thousands of edible sugar flowers and created by cake designer Mich Turner, who has also designed wedding cakes for Madonna, Pierce Brosnan, David Beckham and the royal family.
-- Kitschy more your style? Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro (no longer married) interspersed layers of oreo cheesecake, chocolate cake and strawberry shortcake with flowers and Swarovski crystals -- meant to mirror the bling on Electra's gown.
-- If it's not perfect, don't sweat it. You're in good company. Then first daughter Jenna Bush dulce de leche cake was a little off balance.
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