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Food DIY

Our DIY wedding food posts include everything from how to cater your own wedding or make your own wedding cake, plus cute cake stand DIY tutorials, wedding alcohol calculators, and industry insider tips from caterers.

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Collaborate on a family wedding quilt made of cake!

Donna’s fiance had a brilliant spin on the family quilt idea: what about a family quilt that you can not only display at the wedding, but also eat? That’s right, I said “eat.” Introducing the family cake quilt.

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How to make your own cake toppers using wooden dolls

Tribe member La Morocha created the most adorable cake toppers for her two-dress destination wedding. She even included their fur baby and wedding arch. Find out how you can do the same!

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The most colorful communion bread that you’ll ever make yourself

Friends who got married two years ago told us that serving communion during their wedding was one of the most meaningful things of their entire ceremony. But of course, we couldn’t exactly just have plain ol’ bread… I figured I just had to make RAINBOW BREAD!

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How to make a lightsaber cake knife for your Star Wars wedding

Luke, of Muppet wedding fame, did all of us (plus the entire internets?) a favor by giving us a tutorial on how he made his amazing lightsaber cake cutter. Here is the four-step hack for turning a Crate & Barrel cake knife, into a lightsaber cake knife.

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DIY Fail: When your Cake Pops turn out like Vomit Blobs

DIY is everywhere now, there’s TV stations, magazines, books and blogs dedicated to it. What they don’t tell you is, this stuff isn’t all sunshine and kitten farts. But I will!

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How to DIY your own cupcake wrappers

Cupcakes are the bestest… we all know that right? There’s a new trend in weddings to go portable with the sweets, and cupcakes fit the bill. Homemade or gourmet, they’re hard to resist and I have a fancy schmancy new way for you to DIY dress up your little cupcake morsels of delight!