Apartment Therapy Tagged: wedding

DIY Wedding Cake and Ice Cream: The Recipes

Last week I showed you a few photos of my homemade wedding cakes, but neglected to give you the recipes! Here they are - two simple cakes suitable for any occasion, along with their trimmings and ice ...

Home Cooking: The Homemade Wedding Cake

Wedding cake - the sweetest part of a wedding meal. I knew from the very start that I wanted to bake my own wedding cake. It felt necessary somehow, and not so difficult - especially since we were dis...

Home Cooking: The Family Dessert Buffet

I believe that a wedding should be liberal with sweets. Every other day of the year can be restrained, healthy, and good, but after a wedding the guests should leave with a taste of something sweet in...

Home Cooking: The Home Cooked Wedding

The title of this post is misleading; my wedding meal last week wasn't exactly home cooked - that is, cooked in my own home kitchen with my own two hands. It was made by a splendidly competent caterin...

DIY Wedding Cake: One Down, A Few More To Go

I have just one of my many wedding cake layers done, but it was a doozy. It's the biggest layer of what will be a four-tier fudgy-nearly-flourless cake. The layer is huge - 14 inches! I was very, very...

DIY Wedding Recipe: Creamy, Tangy Lemon Ice Cream

A little while ago I asked for your opinions on what kind of ice cream and sorbet I should make to pair with my homemade wedding cakes. Well, the decision is made! Read on for the recipe... ...

3 Liters of Olive Oil, 11 Dozen Eggs, 9 Pounds of Butter...

...and a few other things. Can you guess what this pile is for?...

Wedding Friday: What Kind Of Ice Cream Goes With Lemon and Chocolate Cakes?

So... by now you know that I have my heart set on making my own cake for my wedding this fall. I'm also determined to make ice cream to go along with it. (Using my new toy!) I'm planning one kind of i...

Wedding Friday: Customized Recipe Cards

This has nothing to do with baking my own wedding cake or churning our wedding ice cream (which I am currently psyching myself up to do) but with another small wedding detail that actually could be ap...

Wedding Friday: Homemade Wedding Cakes from Raquel

Remember how I told you that I am going the crazy route and making my own wedding cakes (and ice cream)? Turns out I'm not alone in this craziness; reader Raquel wrote in with photos and a sweet note ...

Living the DIY Wedding: The Food

I got married a week ago. Instead of the usual fears -commitment, weather, stepkids' sabotage - I spent the weeks leading up to the event wondering if I was capable of cooking a meal for 50 hungry peo...

Partyware! Customizable Wooden Ice Cream Spoons

Last fall we catered a wedding for a friend. It was just a dessert reception, so we served bonbons, cookies, meringues, and ice cream. We served the ice cream in pleated paper soufflé cups, eac...

DIY Wedding Inspiration: How To Make Your Own Wedding Cake (Without Losing Your Mind)

Time to talk about wedding cake and how, honestly, it's not that difficult to do it yourself - or at least keep it inside the family, if you have a good home baker to help you out. This is the next ...

What Was the Best Wedding Meal You Ever Had?

Summer is high season for weddings - do you have invitations coming by mail already? We have blogged extensively in the past about DIY wedding food - elegant finger food, for instance, and a whole men...

Good Question: How Can We Toast Marshmallows Without a Campfire?

Here's a question from Alana on a creative idea for a beachside wedding. My fiance and I are getting married beachside in June. Originally we were going to have scattered fire pits along the beach f...

Good Question: Local New York Honey Producers?

Honey is in the air! On the heels of this post about hard 100% honey drops from Honibe, here's a local New York honey question from Cindy. Jump in if you have another answer. Do you buy local honey wh...

Good Question: What Should We Put On Our Wedding Registry?

Was last night an especially good night for you? Did you perhaps get engaged on the purportedly most romantic day of the year? Well. If so, here is a good question for you. Benjy wants to know what t...

How To: Plan, Cook for, and Throw a Dessert Reception

We have finally got around to pulling together all the resources, recipes, and tips we picked up in the process of throwing a dessert reception for a wedding with over 400 guests last month. ...

How To: Arrange a Buffet Table

Chances are you're going to lay out a buffet table for a party sometime this holiday season. It might be for a huge party (like this wedding reception for 400) or a simple get-together with a dozen pe...

Party Tip: Serve Ice Cream in Soufflé Cups

We went looking for a way to easily serve ice cream at this wedding reception last weekend, and we came up with this idea of using inexpensive paper soufflé cups - the little pleated white on...

D.I.Y. Wedding Reception Report

We were so busy putting desserts in place for almost 400 people at our friend's wedding reception this weekend that we didn't have much time for taking pictures. It was eventful (think a minor catas...

DIY Reception: 700 Truffles and Counting...

How do you roll 700 chocolate truffles? With lots and lots of help. We're elbow-deep in dessert preparations for a wedding reception we're cooking for this weekend. One absolutely essential ingred...

Vino: Going to the Chapel, Part Two

3 Days Until The Big Day! We are settled on the Mendocino Coast, whose stunning beauty erases wedding stress and puts our minds at ease. As mentioned last ...

Party Disposables

Serving and presentation are the biggest challenge in cooking for large parties. Serving cups and plates usually need to be disposable, and disposables are often ugly. More presentable glass cups an...

Vino: Going To the Chapel...

and we're gonna get married! That's right, one week from Saturday we'll be standing on a bluff in Mendocino, California exchanging vows before skipping off to a Bacchanalian feast of local food and wi...

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