Welcome to this issue of Cheap Wedding Tips - the newsletter that brings you the latest money-saving tips for your budget wedding.

What's inside:

• Tips for choosing and making your own wedding cake
• Offer of the month
• Have you thought of?
• Find a supplier
• Latest advice and tips
• What's hot in the forum
• The wedding planner
• Cheap wedding tip
• Final thought

Tips for choosing and making your own wedding cake

Your wedding cake will surely be an important part of your reception. Most guests can’t wait to see the wedding cake and will often look for it before taking their seats. You’ll want to choose a cake that fits in with your wedding theme and shows who you are as a couple.

With so many cakes to choose from, where do you start? First you’ll need to decide on the size. Next, choose your design (this will be the biggest decision to make), and last decide on the flavour.

If you’re planning to make your own cake, you'll need to make sure that you have all of the supplies necessary to make your cake. With such a big job to take on, you don’t want to come up empty handed when it comes to the right supplies. You’ll also need to decide on the type and style of cake stand to use.

Don’t forget about your cake topper. Making your own cake topper can be a really fun DIY project. Monogrammed toppers are very popular these days and are so easy to make. You can purchase plastic or metal letters at most craft stores. Next you can add some crystals in the colours to match your wedding to make yourself a gorgeous topper with lots of bling. If monograms aren’t your thing, think of other little trinkets that reflect you and your groom that can be made into a cake topper.

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Have you thought of?

Where you are going to make your wedding cake? If you’re planning to make your own cake, you need to be sure that you are working in a kitchen that you’re familiar with. If you’ll be baking in a friend or relative’s kitchen, be sure they are there to help you with their oven. We all know that one person’s oven may cook hotter and faster or cooler and slower than what we’re used to in our own kitchen.

The best tip I can offer is to do a trial run at least three months in advance. This will give you plenty of time to refine your recipe and practice icing and decorating the cake.

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Latest articles

Here are the latest additions to Cheap Wedding Success:

Tips On Cutting Your Wedding Cake Costs
Find ideas to reduce your cake costs. Not just all DIY!

Wedding Cake Designs
Whether you're making your own or getting a cake specially made, you'll need to think about the style of your wedding cake. Get the low-down on wedding cake designs here.

Wedding Cake Decoration
From icing your cake to creating little sugar paste flowers, you'll find some interesting tips for decorating your wedding cake here.

Don't forget, there are also plenty of great articles in the wedding cake section.

Share your ideas or your dilemmas with other budget brides

Get help and be helped in the Cheap Wedding Success forum. It's the place to be for brides on a budget. You can chat, share, discuss and even argue! Have your say now.

Have you picked up the wedding planner yet?

The Cheap Wedding Success Wedding Planner has been improved so it's a fully interactive spreadsheet.

This makes it much easier for you to keep track of your budget, guest invites, thank you cards and much more!

It's an essential tool to ensure you keep on budget. All you need to do is punch in the figures and it'll do the rest. Oh, did I mention it's FREE?

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Cheap wedding tip

This cheap wedding tip came from Lucy.

“My best saving so far is having my wedding near Bonfire Night in November so I can enjoy everyone else’s fireworks for free!”

Taking advantage of the season in which you plan to marry is brilliant. Whether it’s Bonfire Night in November, Valentine’s Day in February, or Christmas in December, using the decorations and celebrations for the holidays and seasons will really help you save money. Churches and reception venues are often decorated for the different times of year, use those freebies to your advantage!

Read more readers cheap wedding tips.

Have you got a cheap wedding tip? Do you have a good idea, handy hint, or creative tip that you'd like to let others know? Then share it here and help other brides save too.

Final thought

Wedding cakes are traced back to Ancient Roman times where the wedding ceremony was finalised by the groom breaking a cake of wheat or barley over the bride’s head. To my relief, we’ve come along way since then. What was once a symbol of male dominance has now turned into a tradition of beauty. Even the simplest of wedding cakes are still so lovely to me. The hard work put into them, whether it’s done by a professional baker or by the bride herself, is really worth it when you witness the bride and groom cutting their cake together.

Happy planning!

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