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Custom Made Wedding Cake Toppers

  • April 1, 2010 at 1:24 am

It can be really difficult to find the perfect wedding cake topper that truly reflects your unique personality as a couple. Somehow a generic bride in a white dress and a generic groom in a black tuxedo just doesn’t always cut it — even if you can find a topper that gets your skin and hair colors right.

These generic cake toppers just don’t say anything about the two people who are getting married.

If you appreciate this problem, then you are going to love the concept of custom-made wedding cake toppers.

These toppers are made to order. You tell the artists exactly what you imagine and they will work with you to create a cake topper that is perfect for you. Such a cake topper would obviously be a great keep-sake for you to display long after the wedding is over.

Since they are custom-made, they can cost more than your average cake topper. But to get around this problem you could ask an artist friend to make a cake topper as their gift to you. Or you could talk to a university art class instructor about having their students all make customized cake toppers for you and the best one will win a gift certificate and their piece will be used for your wedding cake.

Or you could save money in another area of your wedding budget and apply those savings to your cake topper budget. For great ways to save money on your wedding, get a copy of our downloadable wedding planner.

Here are some cake toppers that were custom made for brides and grooms who wanted their cake toppers to really catch their unique personalities.

Motorcycle Riders' Wedding Cake Topper

Motorcycle Riders’ Wedding Cake Topper by Magic Mud

Micro Dwarf Photos to Wedding Cake Toppers

 Micro Dwarf – Photos to Wedding Cake Toppers

Baseball Fans Wedding Cake Topper
Baseball Fans Wedding Cake Topper by Magic Mud

Wedding Photo Church Theme Bobblehead Couple

Church Theme Bobblehead Wedding Cake Topper by Custom Bobble

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Wedding Planning on a Budget Book Giveaway – Everyone Wins!

  • June 18, 2009 at 7:43 pm

Ever since this recession started last summer, we have had an amazing outpouring of interest in our book ‘Wedding Planning on a Budget’ as well as our new book ‘The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget’

As a way to thank everyone for their interest in our books and as a way to help each of you to have the opportunity to benefit from the savings made possible by our books, we want to end this month with a book giveaway.

The best part is that everyone wins!

Prizes will be as follows…

1st Prize

wedding planning on a budget  Ultimate Honeymoon Planner  Newlywed Guide

A set of our three books Wedding Planning on a Budget, The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget, and The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage.

2nd Prize

wedding planning on a budget  Newlywed Guide

Two of our books Wedding Planning on a Budget and The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage.

Participation Prize

Newlywed Guide

Everyone who enters will win something. All participants will receive The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage and a coupon for 25% OFF the price of Wedding Planning on a Budget and The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget.

How to Enter

To enter, respond to one or both of the following questions by posting a comment to this blog entry:

  1. Why do you need to save money on your wedding?
  2. What are you doing to save money on your wedding?

Deadline and Other Details

All comments must be posted by 11:59:59 EST July 1 to be included in this contest.

One entry per person is allowed. If you must post more than one comment, all of your comments will only be considered one entry.

All entrants who follow the rules of this contest will be included in a random drawing to select the 1st and 2nd prize winners.

1st and 2nd prize winners will be  notified by July 10 and announced by July 17. We will ask the 1st and 2nd prize winners to submit a photo and give us a few basic details to share in the winners announcement blog post. If we do not hear back from a 1st or 2nd prize winner by July 14, a runner-up will be given the opportunity to win the unclaimed prize.

All participants will receive their prizes by July 17.

Good Luck!

We wish you luck and hope you take a moment to post your comment. Remember, everyone who responds to one or both of the above questions by July 1 will be entered for the drawing and receive the participation prizes. If you know anyone who is engaged, then you should let them know about this opportunity too.

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Wedding Gift Giving Tips For Brides and Grooms

  • June 15, 2009 at 5:30 am

Brides and grooms typically give a gift to their parents, each member of their wedding party, and each other.

They may also want to give a gift to anyone who is going above and beyond in helping with the wedding. We for instance, gave a gift to the videographer who provided his services at cost as well as the minister who provided his services for free.

We recommend making each gift as personal and meaningful as possible. You are trying to show appreciation to the people you cannot thank enough. You need to move well beyond monetary value and attach, instead, sentimental value to each of these gifts.

We, for instance, bought some wooden desk clocks and wooden stools. By themselves they were rather inexpensive and unimpressive. But we added a lot of sentimental value to these items by refinishing the wood and burning our names and the date of our wedding into the wood.

What we really did was attach our wedding day and ourselves to these items in a material way to indicate that the people who received these gifts were very important to us and our wedding day. Understanding the sentimental meaning attached to these gifts, those who received these items would treasure them just as we treasured the people to whom we gave these gifts.

Another great way to attach sentimental value to a gift is to make the gift a reminder of a happy memory.

For instance, Tim’s father, Rick Spooner, is an artist who recently completed a commission from a bride and groom. The bride commissioned a painting of her fiancés Oldmobile 442 to be used as her wedding gift for him. The groom commissioned a pen and ink drawing of his 1967 Olds 442 and his best man’s 1967 Camaro to be used as a gift for his best man.

These are not simply paintings and they are not simply about classic cars. These are all about powerful and happy memories associated with the classic cars being captured on canvas. You can be sure that the groom and his best man will both proudly display their respective wedding gifts in a prominent location and have very happy feelings associated with the thoughtful wedding gifts they received from some very caring individuals.

Please share your wedding gift ideas with your fellow brides and grooms by posting your comments below.

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