re: handmade wedding gown - my mom made hers and it was beautifullllllll and I made my own junior prom dress and it was PRETTY FUCKIN RAD if you ask me. go for it. you’ll love it. just make sure you properly schedule the whole thing - like “on this day i’ll finish this,” “i need to finish this by this date,” “i’ll… Read more

Just wanted to respond to the woman who is considering just getting a department store dress - go for it! I got a beautiful, full-length, backless white lace dress from BCBG for about $300, and it was a great wedding dress. Because it was off-the-rack, I was able to buy it close to the date of the wedding, so I didn't… Read more

re: sleeves. You can have them added to a dress as long as you have a good seamstress (which your bridal shop should have-they will attempt to talk you out of it, and they will not do it until the very end- they will try to talk you into a bolero- this is your wedding wear what you want to.) I bought a dress for $700… Read more

I didn’t want bridesmaids. It was a big wedding and I have a lot of great girlfriends, but the whole thing felt like it was going to be a circus. My mom made me have my sister as an “attendant”. So she picked out a dress she liked and got her hair done and carried a little nosegay. It was nice, because I had someone… Read more

I dearly hope there’s no such thing in my life as too old to dress up in matching costumes with my lady (or dude) friends. Read more

Thank you thank you! You have affirmed what I’ve always believed: the moose is my marriage’s spirit animal.

My grandparent’s saved their cake topper from 1946. Then I took it and preserved it. It held up really nicely and we used it for ours. It was a nice little nod to them. Read more

This was a wedding cake I made and I still have no idea what the topper means. They asked for a tiger pulling the donkey from Shrek by its tail so that’s what I did. Both are gumpaste.

I would also try to murder someone if they removed me from delicious cake.
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Aww I missed the original post! Here’s our customised Sylvanian Families bear and cat. I painted the animals and hand sewed the tiny clothes and made the hipster glasses. Unfortunately neither the staff not photographer realised the specs should actually be over the cat’s eyes... Also you can’t see the veil. They’re…

I’m sad I missed the original thread but I just went through it and WOW I love everyone’s creative toppers! I got two little birds hand painted on Etsy (to match our colors and what my flowers were going to be.)

We didn’t have a cake topper. At the time, it never occurred to me that such options were available. I was also way more focused on the “groom’s cake” (which was really the bride’s cake because my husband knew it was happening regardless) - which was, in true Steel Magnolias style, a red-velvet armadillo cake. Read more

My MIL bought us a ski-themed topper — a man skier with his dainty bride riding piggyback, because, bitches can’t ski I guess. I didn’t love it but it made my husband and family very happy. Read more

I just want to say that blog post is intensely annoying for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on. Read more

This is some next level aggressive heterosexuality. Read more

Oh man, how did I miss this? I have an excellent temporary cake topper story! Read more

Totoro!