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What was way easier than you thought? What was harder?

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Rosie, on June 8, 2021 at 9:24 PM

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So we did our tentative wedding seating plan last night and I have to be honest - before we started I'd heard it was one of THE WORST parts of planning! Now, to be fair my family live mostly overseas so I only had 20 or so guests to place compared to my fiance with his prolific family, so it wasn't...

So we did our tentative wedding seating plan last night and I have to be honest - before we started I'd heard it was one of THE WORST parts of planning!

Now, to be fair my family live mostly overseas so I only had 20 or so guests to place compared to my fiance with his prolific family, so it wasn't too bad for me as I didn't have too much invested in where Auntie X was sitting, but even so, we got it done in about an hour! Boom baby, done and dusted.

Maybe it was also easier because we have big long tables so rather than needing to find equal groups of people that fit together, we could put unevenly sized groups together as long as there is a 'buffer' person who is reasonably social or easy going to meld one group into the next.

Anyway it made me curious. What had you heard was a nightmare that ended up being easy peasy lemon squeezy? And what did you hear was lovely and a breeze that ended up being difficult difficult lemon difficult?

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Master February 2022
Rosie · on June 15, 2021 at 7:42 PM
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That is all very true about the bougie cakes! And I do love banana bread and banana cake!
Here at least, most venues include dessert in their packages, so the cake is very often not eaten at all! Also, depending on when it is cut, it's often left on the table whilst people are dancing so most guests don't even see it until they're scrambling to grab their things, and if the venue doesn't supply cake bags in a sensible or obvious way, people just leave the cake behind.
I personally don't love wedding cake all that much so I'm okay with it! I don't actually think that we'll even have enough cake serves for everyone, if I'm not mistaken.
In Australia they tend to serve mud cake most often (I know they're not huge in America - so for clarity, a mudcake has a texture which I'd say was halfway between a cake and a brownie - it's a very dense, heavy cake and is most frequently chocolate or caramel). I personally find them way, way too heavy - my preferred desserts are soft, light, fruit flavoured ones like chiffon cakes or sponges with raspberry or strawberry fillings and lots of thick, fresh cream. Which... I know don't easily stand up to the multi-tiered nature of wedding cakes, or the decorations!
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