Wedding Planning for Food, Cake & Music
Wedding Food
Setting your menu is a relatively easy affair, but can be daunting to the novice who has never planned a catered event before. weddings are a celebration of the hosts' fantasies, 
dreams, and ultimately, their competitive streaks—what couple does not want the extravaganza to end all extravaganzas? Girls who spend their whole lives dreaming of being brides see everything around them as an accessory. Flowers enhance their beauty. Food, not so much. To eat, drink and be merry! That’s the real reason guests love attending wedding receptions. Because food and fun go hand in hand, many couples plan their wedding food and wedding drinks at the same time they’re planning the reception.
Wedding Cake
Traditionally, wedding cakes used to be three tiered, and were covered with royal icing. Nowadays, there are hundreds of cakes that you can choose from, which vary in design, look, as well as taste. Over time, these many-layered wedding cakes gave way to the typical tiered cakes that are found at weddings today. Did you know that in medieval times, the bride and groom did not supply the wedding cake? Rather, each wedding guest brought a small cake or bun to contribute to the festivities. The many cakes were stacked up high in layers. It was considered good luck if the bride and groom could kiss over the top of the stack without toppling them over.
Wedding cakes date back to the ancient Grecian and Roman empires. In ancient Greece, sesame and honey cakes may have been served to (or even thrown at) the new couple to promote fertility. In Rome, bread was shared by the bride and groom and then broken over the bride’s head, also in the hopes of ensuring fertility
and good fortune. Guests would try to catch the crumbs as they fell to the ground, desiring to share in the couple’s good luck. This evolved into the modern tradition of giving a small slice of wedding cake to each guest in attendance.
These days, besides the bride’s dress, few things at a wedding receive more visual attention than the wedding cake. Not many people leave the reception before the cake is cut, as it is an important tradition. The photographer will feature the wedding cake in a lot of photographs, which you will be looking at for years to come. Thus, you should take some time to choose the perfect wedding cake. On your wedding day, it's important to make sure the wedding cake can be seen by all your guests.
The wedding cake can be a real focal point of a room so it shouldn't be hidden away in a corner. A good wedding cake designer will be able to take inspiration from your ideas and the style of your wedding and come up with a sketch to enable you to finalise your wedding cake design.
Wedding Reception Music
If the church, reception location, flowers, and the decorations are the foreground, then the wedding and reception music are the backdrop. The right music makes a wedding or reception feel special. Wedding couples spend a lot of time and energy making their wedding visually appealing through its decorations, wedding flowers, wedding gowns, and more, but do not really think about which wedding songs they will play and in what order until much later. The wedding songs you select and or
der you put them in will tremendously influence the emotions of your guests and pacing of your wedding, iand the reception.
Unfortunatley, the wedding and reception music is the most likely facet of the special day to be delegated to others, such as the church pianist, organist, the reception band, or the DJ.
To maximize the effect of your wedding music, develop a storyboard of wedding songs that captures the mood of each step of the wedding as it happens, from pre- wedding ceremony until the reception finishes. Make a list f those wedding songs you want to play during each phase of the wedding. Wedding songs can convey feelings of anticipation, of nostalgia for times past, and of excitement and celebration for the wedding couple. Use your wedding songs to sweep your guests into your event and make them feel part of it all.
Rhonda & Ashley Divine