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Melody Brandon, Long Beach, CA Vendor: Baker Website: Sweet and Saucy Shop About Me: Sweet & Saucy Shop is a dessert studio that specializes in cakes, cookies, and cupcakes, as well as many other goodies that taste as good as they look. Our new bakery storefront will be up and running within the next two months!

Wedding Reception Photos

July 21st, 2009 @ 10:35 am by Melody @ Sweet and Saucy Shop

I catered a wedding for 200 people. I didn’t do the full meal, but rather the appetizers and the cake…which was definitely enough for me. The bride and groom’s colors were dark chocolate brown and turquoise. They wanted a chocolate ganache covered cake with chocolate cake inside and chocolate ganache filling and fresh strawberries -can you say yummy! They also wanted to cut the cost a little so we did a smaller size wedding cake with two other kinds of sheet cakes. The other two kinds of cake were almond cake with lemon cream and fresh raspberry filling and lemon cream cheese frosting and hazelnut cake with raspberry cream cheese frosting with fresh raspberries and raspberry buttercream. So without further ado here are some photos of the cake.

The Carnation Wedding Bouquet: Pretty & Perfect for a Recessionista Bride

June 1st, 2009 @ 8:34 am by Christina @ Intimate Weddings

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Carnations? Ick. That’s what I thought six months ago - before I saw the light.

One evening, I was doing some research for an article I was writing about wedding flowers, when an image of a carnation wedding bouquet jumped out at me. No, it can’t be! Carnations? My “ick” suddenly became a “wow!”

I had never seen carnations grouped together before without any other flowers to steal their thunder. They were always used as filler and almost always paired with baby’s breath. Who knew that they had such power in numbers?

Not only do they look fabulous “en masse”, they’re inexpensive and last a long time. What more could one ask from such a sweet and humble flower?

I scoured the web for some photos of carnation bouquets and here are a few of the best.

{Real Brides: How to Trim Your Wedding Budget}

May 19th, 2009 @ 9:56 am by Nancy @ Nancy Liu Chin Designs

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Annie Packman, a recent bride, has been so kind and generous to share her real experience about how she trimmed back her wedding budget.

How I Trimmed My Wedding Budget
I’m sure that we’re all aware of the economy not being so -ahem- robust these days, and no one knows this better than a bride attempting to plan her wedding right now. But what do you do when you are in the midst of planning or even almost done with your planning, and something happens forcing you to cut back on your wedding? This happened to me a year ago.

Last May, my fiance and I had just returned from a trip down to our destination wedding location Carmel, California, to have our final vendor meetings and tastings. I was a little shocked on the plane ride home that all the decisions about the wedding were now made with three months to go! Or so I thought…