Friday, 30 January 2015

Wedding Cake Review - Klang Valley KL

Wedding Cake
Should I or should I not?

Every wedding have a wedding cake should so I? One would wonder if this element or what people see as an necessities, would I be a "lacking" bride? Therefore a bride should have one?

Or some would say, since the reception venue provide one why not? But have you wonder where does this weeding cake tradition come from and why is the cake always in tower tall and white / cream in colour?

Tiny bit of history I read

Wedding cake tradition actually started off from Rome (one of them I guess), where in ancient, people would break bread on the bride's head as a sign of blessing to the couple. In England, wedding cakes are then stacked high and the couple are suppose to kiss each other over the cake without knocking them down so that they would have a prosperous life together.

In fact, Chinese do have these wedding cake tradition too. They are known aa dowry cake. Unlike western who serve the cake during the morning wedding ceremony, dowry cake are given out to relatives before the wedding ceremony to inform that the wedding is approaching. In the past, these dowry cake are round shaped and look more like a pastry.

Let see the evolution of wedding cake.

Source: Google

Evolution of dowry cake.

The Malaysian style.

We Malaysian always know for unique culture or what some says a little touch of everything. What is being observed from friend around me, cup cakes are now used also used dowry cakes while wedding cakes are mostly source from wedding planners.

Today, my sharing are on the cup cakes and wedding cakes vendor that I have engaged before for my wedding, my baby full moon and also birthday! Some are my friends who have good review on their products. Hope you find my sharing useful for you.

This wedding cake are very much Victorian style. Ruffles and white cake of this 8 layered cake are just so elegant - By Burst in the Oven.

If you love ruffles and something cute, this cake will just blow you away. Simple classy three layered cake with a fine hand crafted icing top flower, what else can one ask for? - By Burst in the Oven.

Looking for something simple yet a little England touch? This cake fits you well. It is 100% hand craft, home made by a lovely friend of mine, I guarantee you it is one of the rare baker who serve you edible fondant because it is not diabetic-sweet! - By Lace that Cake

Playful couple need a playful theme cake - By I have sweet tooth.

Instead of having layered cake, how about stake up the cup cake on the beautiful tray and have a unique wedding cake that stand out of the crowd? Are you bold enough for the colour? - By Sweet Ending

Pretty sure a lot of you have seen her in wedding fair (recently at Saujana) or even magazine! Her cakes are highly recommended as they are just too pretty to eat. Guess her good service and reputation among returning customers did the magic. Enough said of that, look at her creative master piece. Originality is something that I want you to see in her - By In the Could Cakes

Fondant and icing top do the work. This baker is a AI designer background who make wonders with his cake. Something that you can rarely see anywhere. I bet he can make whatever you have in your mind, try him, I bet on him - By Eric

My Review

Above mentioned bakers are all review (tasted) by me except for Eric. I personally prefer Lace that Cake because the cake is less sweet and taste good compared to the rest. However, I find that Burst in Oven cake design can last longer (maybe is the icing top material?) compared to the rest.

However, my last draw come now. I engaged this lady for my party three times. Yes. Three time. Just because her price is so reasonable for the quality that she deliver.

Ready to have a peep?

Photo do the work. Tell her what you want and she can do it like almost identically and she give you her piece of professional advise (i.e. what type of topping, flavour, color) The only con of ordering from her? Location! My third order almost fell off because the cake is melting. Blame the delivery man. They just could not keep my cake cold enough. Other than that, I would give her my little michelin star - By Agnes

Tell me what you think - By Agnes

Hope you find my sharing useful! Enjoy your planning - once in a life time :)

Love,

Hot MaMa

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Wedding Preparation 1

Posted on 20:59 by Unknown

These few weekends I have been busy attending weddings and there are 3 more upcoming in December. This reminds me that I am already married for a year and I have not blogged anything about it.

If you are bride to be, with a tight budget and currently cracking your head to source for reasonably priced restaurants/hotels, bridal bouquet, decorations, photographer etc, you may find some of these articles useful as I wish to blog about my experience in engaging the vendors.

Bridal bouquet & floral decorations

Some of you must have wondered why do I need to source for bridal bouquet as it would have been included in the standard pre-wedding package. The reason is because I did not sign up any package from bridal shop because:

I am super skinny and I find it EXTREMELY HARD to look for the wedding gown that I can fit into and hide my bones.
I was not willing to pay for something that I did not want in the package.
At times, there are a lot of hidden costs in the package where the sales assistant did not disclose to you upfront and you may end up spending a lot more than what you initially expect.
The bridal bouquet is a standard bouquet which you may not be able to customise it to your own preference.

So I did extensive research to source for all the wedding items.

Speaking of bridal bouquet, if you are on a VERY TIGHT BUDGET, the cheapest bridal bouquet that you can find in Malaysia is to Do-It-Yourself. No joke, what you need to do is:

Option 1: Do-It-Yourself

Head to Petaling Street
Buy 2 dozen of roses from the wholesalers (i.e. Lee Wah Florist, Weng Hoa Flower Boutique)
Cut the thorns and trim the stems
Wrap them with ribbons

Of course, I am not a pro in floral arrangement and neither did I have the time to put in so much effort into it (especially when I want my bouquet to match with rainbow colour theme), hence, I decided to browse through facebook and check out if there is any reasonable florist that I can engage. And I came across Sunny Days.

READ THIS IF YOU HAVE SOME BUDGET AND WISH TO CUSTOMISE YOUR BRIDAL BOUQUET

Option 2: Engage Sunny Days

If you have SOME BUDGET and would like to CUSTOMISE your bridal bouquet, I would strongly recommend you to engage Sunny Days.

Sunny Days offers a wide range of floral arrangement services as well, hence you may engage them to decorate your wedding venue or any other floral related service, i.e. bridesmaid bouquet, corsages, wrist flowers etc.

Their facebook photos really impressed me as you can tell from the beautiful pictures that the team is really creative in customising flower bouquet and decoration to the wedding couple needs.

Before I engaged them I tried to walked into a few nearby florist shops in SS2 one week before my wedding day and none of them are able to customise a bouquet to rainbow colour theme without dying the flowers, at a price below RM200 and to deliver to door step on time.

I was so delighted when I texted them via Facebook and What'sApp, I received instant replies from them, even though they were in overseas on vacation. They actually came back just in time to rush for my bouquet and delivered it over to my husband's place the night before our wedding day. Knowing that the groom would be extremely busy before the wedding day, they were very considerate not to collect payment on the spot and he only transferred the payment via online banking few hours later.

Why did I choose Sunny Days?