MrsJonesMakes: More wedding makes

A belated post, as we are quickly approaching our first anniversary, but, here are a few more of the wedding makes. There are more, including the dress but I think this will suffice for now.

The invites
So this crazy making all started with the invites. We batted around ideas for quite a while but eventually found this picture in the back of a wedding brochure and decided to build are our invites around it.

Somehow we decided that tracing off the design onto acetate and then sticking it onto the invite was the way forward and not being someone to do things the easy way I decided to trace each one individually. This led to a bit of a production line but I was looking for work at the time so it keep me busy!

Tracing the design

Putting the cards together

A close up of the final design

To be honest collecting everyones address was a bigger job, and deciding on our gift list, and it was a very happy day, the day that I took them all to the post office.

The cake
Next we had to start thinking about the cake. We wanted to do a practice so it seemed sensible to do a Christmas cake that we could enjoy. I don't think it had quite struck us how much planning is involved in the cake- you need to make it in time to have at least a month to "feed" it, then you need to marzipan it two weeks before you are going to eat it and ice it a week before you are going to eat it. This means working all of this backwards. We decided to do a test run of the fruit cake as a Christmas cake.

Our test run

The Christmas cake turned out to be a huge success. I took the recipe from 'Cake decorating at home by Zoe Clark'

The recipe book

We had seen this cake while we were in Peru and wanted to base our cake on this with the wonky layers, pattern and bold colours.

Our Inspiration

Maturing cake

The bottom layer

Packaged and ready to go

The cake toppers
I then started to think about cake toppers and saw this brilliant idea on etsy: Penguin wedding cake topper

Cake toppers by fliepsiebieps on Etsy

These were unfortunately a bit too expensive for us so I decided to try and make my own, £7 and a couple of hours later I had our cake toppers!

My head in the development stage!

Ready for the oven

Our cake toppers

And, after some careful packing and driving, here is the finished cake:

The cake :-)

Other handmade items

I will be brief here because we made a lot and you are probably bored already, but, here is a selection of other bits that we made.