My Sister's Wedding

I have not blogged in a while. I had two weddings that kept me extremely busy. I will be posting the photographs in the next coming weeks.

In the meantime,check out my sister's wedding,which i did August 2009.

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Mantombi

Mantombi and weddings...: My Friday favourate

Mantombi and weddings...: My Friday favourate: "I just love the bellanaija wedding blog,check out the wedding on this link. http://www.bellanaija.com/2010/07/20/our-wedding-story-elizabet..."

My Friday favourate

I just love the bellanaija wedding blog,check out the wedding on this link.

http://www.bellanaija.com/2010/07/20/our-wedding-story-elizabeth-eyamba-idem-aniekan-ido/

History of wedding cakes

http://www.maisiefantaisie.co.uk/wedding-cakes.html




The history of wedding cakes is a long one... The tradition of the bridal - wedding cakes dates back to the Roman era.

Certainly the Romans were not in the habit of baking elaborate or elegant wedding cakes with buttercream icing and custom wedding-cake toppers. Usually they used loaves of wheat bread. The loaf of bread was broken over the heads of the newlyweds to bring them luck and prosperity. Sometimes it was broken only over the bride’s head, usually by the groom.

The crumbs of wedding cake, that landed on the floor symbolized good luck and fertility for the bride and groom, and it was considered good luck for guests to eat the crumbs of "wedding cake". Single women scrambled for the grains to ensure their own betrothals.

During the middle ages the bridal - wedding cakes were simple biscuits or scones.

At that time each guest brought one small bridal cake to the wedding (somewhat bigger than cupcake wedding cake of nowadays). They were piled on top of each other, and the bride and groom had to kiss across the top of the piled cakes to bring them good luck in their marriage.

The history of wedding cakes goes on: In the seventeenth century French bakers stacked the wheat buns and coated them with icing. This was the beginning of new history of wedding cakes, they start looking like ours. The typical wedding cake today is composed of several cakes stacked in layers and the whole thing covered with icing.

Shapes range from: square, round, rectangular, heart etc... But there are so many options and design ideas that it can be difficult to choose the one that is just right for you. You would also like to keep the wedding cake price at the reasonable level, while having elegant and classy cake.

In the past, wedding cakes were considered a symbol, and everyone wanted the same bland white cake with white icing because that was the symbol. Luckily, the days of those boring wedding cakes are past. Today’s bridal cakes can be a culinary and design extravaganza.

The bride creates or finds a design she likes, and the caterer hires a bakery to create her unique wedding cake or bride does it herself.

At the reception the bride cuts the first two slices with the groom’s hand placed over hers. The groom feeds the bride the first slice and then the bride feeds the groom the second. This symbolizes the support they will provide to each other.

I hope you found the history of weding cakes interesting :-) You may share it with the guests at your reception and have some fun together.

http://www.cakechannel.com/history-of-wedding-cakes

Some pretty interesting and unique ideas you can discuss with your caterer:

Lady Diana's Wedding

I remember watching Lady Di's wedding ceremony on TV,i must have been four or Five years old. It is one of the memories that are still vivid in my mind. I guess that is where my fascination or should i say my obsession with weddings started. I hope these images bring back memories for you too.

Love Mantombi

The Reception Menu

Hi Guys

The catering at your reception sets the mood for the entire wedding. I like to say that it is the pillar that holds everything together.

Make the menu unique and interesting; it should reflect your personality and your style. Do remember that the menu will take up the biggest chunk of your budget.

If you are working on a tight budget, I would suggest that you start with your menu budget, then your invitations and work backwards.

People will forget what your wedding dress looked like, but they will never forget how hungry they felt at your wedding.
Finding the right caterer might take some time but it will be worth it at the end of the day.

So get out there and be creative with your menu for an unforgettable wedding reception!

Love Mantombi

Cool invites

I hope you guys like these invites,i pulled them from google.
Love Mantombi

Invitations

Hi guys,this week i would like us to look at invitations. What i have learned over the years is that your invitations set the tone for the wedding. Wedding invitations should also represent your style and personality,so put an effort when deciding on the design of your first tool of communication. Also very important before i sign off is to put aside a good budget for your invites. I'm finalising my brides invitations today,we have been stuck on trying to get the directions to the church right...By the way always make sure that all the important info regarding your wedding day is on the invitations it will save you a lot of heartache. I will be posting different invitations which i think are cool throughout the week...

Mantombi

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”Coco Chanel