We are having the reception at the Church's social hall so it's not that great looking since the hall is used as the school's lunch room.  We have a HUGE task ahead of us to make it look not so boring!

Centerpieces:  We are "recycling" the pomanders from the church pews and using them as centerpieces.  Again, I wanted to keep it simple since not many remember what you had for a centerpiece at your wedding!

WEDDING CAKE:  As I'm typing all of this, I realize I have one theme:  SIMPLE!!  The lady we want to have do our wedding cake isn't familiar with how ribbon works on the cake so we have some trials to do.  I found online that you can iron wax paper to the back of the ribbon to prevent the grease/butter from the frosting to get onto the ribbon.  We'll see how that experiment goes!

For the cake stand, we are going to do the "turn a candle holder upside down" trick:

CAKE TOPPER:  FI and I have given each other Willow Tree figurines so I want to use that as our cake topper.

Cakes with it on: