If you’re having a mixture of sponge and fruit cakes for your wedding cake, make sure that the fruit layer is used for the bottom tier(s). Fruit cake is heavy, and you risk your cake collapsing completely if you try and stack it on top of sponge layers.
-
Categories
-
Archive
-
About Us
Helen Carter Weddings provides bespoke wedding planning throughout London and the South East. We have a wide range of services available, from full wedding co-ordination to venue or supplier sourcing and wedding day management. We’re passionate about creating distinctive and stylish events, and are dedicated to ensuring our clients enjoy a unique, personal and stress-free wedding day.
-
About Our Blog
We love everything to do with weddings, and we’ve created our blog to share advice, ideas and inspiration. We try our very best to credit everything we show both here and on our design boards page. However, if you see something that hasn’t been properly referenced and you know who it belongs to, or you see something that is yours and you would rather it didn’t appear here, please contact us.
-
-
Wedding Planner Top Tip – Avoid a Cake Collapse
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Posted in Planning Advice , Top Tips
-
Wedding Planner Top Tip – Ceremony Seating
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Posted in Planning Advice , Top Tips
If one of you has a significantly larger family than the other, avoid the traditional ‘bride’s guests on the left and groom’s guests on the right’ seating arrangements for the ceremony as it will look unbalanced in your photographs. Instead, ask your guests to sit on either side of the aisle and have the traditional split seating just for the wedding party.
-
Wedding Planner Top Tip – Entertaining Children
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Posted in Planning Advice , Top Tips
Keep children occupied during the wedding breakfast by providing them with fun activity packs. Include items such as colouring books, pencils, stickers, puzzles and bubbles.
-
Wedding Planner Top Tip – Re-Use Flowers
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Posted in Planning Advice , Top Tips
Make the most of your budget by re-using flower arrangements from the ceremony at the reception. Pew ends can be used to decorate staircases or tied onto the back of chairs for the wedding breakfast, whilst altar or ceremony table arrangements can be used to decorate a long top table or mantelpiece.
