Here’s an easy, yet often forgotten way to keep your wedding costs low:

Rather than writing a very large check for a very elaborate wedding cake, order up an extremely simple design (think smooth, white frosting, a few tiers, and nothing else) and add on the decorations yourself!

Your caterer and florist may very well be willing to add freshly cut fruit and/or flowers to your cake for free. Also, a beautiful cake topper can make all the difference when it comes to your dessert’s design.

Finally, you could place around the base these beautiful wedding cake charms by Favor Savings.

Few brides and grooms today are familiar with the Victorian tradition of tying sterling silver charms to a satin ribbon and placing them under a wedding cake’s bottom layer. Back when this tradition was commonplace, the bridesmaids would pull the charms from beneath the cake right before it was cut. In this way, the charms not only made lovely cake decorations, they also made lovely bridesmaid gifts!

Had I known about wedding cake charms when I was planning my wedding, I surely would have incorporated them into our reception. I’m fascinated by how the concept is traditional yet unique, and I love that each charm brings a different special meaning to the celebration.

Forget the bouquet toss: Favor Savings’ charms are a much better form of telling your bridesmaids' futures. The engagement ring means next to marry, the heart means love is on the way, the bouquet promises a blossoming relationship, the horseshoe foretells of luck in life, the anchor symbolizes hope and adventure, and the key means happiness awaits!

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