I know I've seen a few - who made them on their own? where did you get the supplies? Is it cheaper to make or buy one?
shelzyp
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I was goign to make one, but then i decided it would be cheaper to get it fomr lillian vernon, I got mine for 29.95,a nd i think it was even cheaper by the time it was delivered.
I found the hat boxes at joann's but they seemes to be expensive.
emacsgirl
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thanks - I had seen some hat boxes at michaels but it seemed like by the time you bought 3 boxes and the stuff to decorate it would be more than twice as much as the lillian vernon one.
smooch
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MY SISTER MADE MINE! I honestly don't know what it cost for all the materials but I think that because my sister made it for me, it's worth more than anything.
It came out absolutely beautiful! Here it is:
and the detail:
And you can see it in the background (on the left side) at the reception:
yabbobay
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I think it would be very easy to make...buy 3 different sized boxes...round or square...wrap...trim...voila!!!
shelzyp
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It is the boxes though that are expensive, and then you really want to cover them in fabric, not paper.
alina
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I made my own, square shaped cake box. FIL got me the boxes (I think it was like 3 for 10 dollars or something) and I could only use 2 of them, and I used one other box that I already had.
Then I stacked them up, glueing and decorating layer by layer. I used plain white wrapping paper and not fabric, b/c paper is easier to glue.
After all boxes were put together, it looked just like a plain white square cake, and I decorated the edges with silk rose petals (I had to use crazy glue on those, since they were fabric), fake pearls and other stuff.
I probably spent $20 on the whole thing, and people thought it was a real cake
