Budget Wedding Tips - Part 10: The Cake

Our chocolate mud Cupcakes

Wedding Cake


We were incredibly lucky that my sister in law made our cake for us as a wedding gift.
If you have someone in your life who is talented with baking, this is a great way to save some $ on the wedding budget, and you can ask them to make it as a wedding gift, which will likely make them feel very special (or nervous! :D)


We decided we would like a cupcake tower as opposed to a traditional wedding cake, and my sister in law made our cupcakes from chocolate mud cake {apparently at the time of baking, her house smelt like Willy Wonka farted!}


Each cupcake was wrapped in dark red ribbon and the entire thing placed on a specially made tiered cake tower.  She did a beautiful job and we really loved it.


To save even more, we used our beautiful cake as dessert, and for $1 per head, Ballara Receptions plated each guest's cupcake individually with some cream and berry coulis.. just gorgeous!  This meant we paid a lot less per head, as dessert was supplied by us.


This is the final in the series of 10 posts about our wedding savings.. I hope that some of the things I learned along the way are helpful and can minimise some stress and help a few couples start off married life without a whole big mess of debt hanging over their heads.


Congratulations to all of you getting married - I hope you thoroughly enjoy the ride!!


**Please do let me know if you have any specific questions that I can attempt to answer**