who is doing the following

dress and cake


however i'm worried about the cake...its icecream---will icecream keep that long in the freezer??

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by Kimbalina

I never heard about drying flowers being bad luck.

I will do the cake part

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not drying them but they say keeping dead flowers in the house is bad luck. My mom always says this to me, maybe its a european thing they have tons of crazy superstitions hahaha

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yeah i was going to say maybe its a polish thing

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Posted by Mimacat

Preserve the dress, Gabbie! You never know - in a few years you might decide to have a baby, and maybe you'll want to use some of the fabric from your gown for a christening dress... its better to have it preserved even if the train is damaged, b/c it will prevent it from yellowing, etc.

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oh i didnt even think about that
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good idea

how much does preserving cost?
i heard like $400


thats half of what my dress cost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wanna do dress and cake

no flower

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by Mici n KC

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by Kimbalina

I never heard about drying flowers being bad luck.

I will do the cake part

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not drying them but they say keeping dead flowers in the house is bad luck. My mom always says this to me, maybe its a european thing they have tons of crazy superstitions hahaha

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I've never heard about keeping dead flowers being bad luck and my whole family is European. I'll have to ask.

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i dont know i figured since gabbie's family is very european and mine is also very european and we both heard of this maybe thats why hahahahaha

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yes lets blame it on the very european crazyyy family

I did freeze my cake. but not the entire top part. I just took a piece for both and the rest we ate, because we didn't really get to taste it the day of...lol

I will be preserving my dress. but it's still hanging on my closet door. i look at it everyday and smile

my bouquet lasted about 5 days before it finally died...lol...after that i took the intial off of the wrap and threw it away.

preserved the dress
preserved the flowers
cake we ate on our one month

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Posted by Mimacat

how much does preserving cost?
i heard like $400

thats half of what my dress cost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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All said and done I think it ran me $500-600 kinda forgot. Yea its a lot but I really wanted it. Cut costs elsewhere and worked a second job to help ease the cost.

I got an oval frame with my entire bq preserved, petal restoration, color restored (which you will not have when you dry your flower upside down - this looks like how the bq was the day of forever) and I plan to hang it on the wall.

oh wow I won't be preserving for a while then that's a lot and my dress has a lot of detail, so wow

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Posted by Bride908

I def will be saving the cake.

Not sure about 1 & 2 yet. I may even try to sell my dress afterwards.

Its a beautiful dress but Im never going to wear it again and I loath keeping things.

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same here! def saving the cake but the dress and flowers prob not.

Flowers- no
Cake- yes
Dress-not sure but prob. yes

Gabbie....no no no no Mama!! No 600 dollars. Go to WedClean.net and read about it. For 200 (Iincluding shipping) dollars I had my dress CLEANED (and I had stains by the end of the night, believe me!) AND preserved, and it came out beeeeeeeeautiful. I should take a pic.

You pay online, they send you a box, you pack your gown up, mail it out (PREPAID sticker already on it) You can track it online, plus they email you updates as they are cleaning it, and they ship it back to you clean and preserved in a restoration box. I was scared shipping it out, but several girls on her had great experiences with them, so its totally safe! You can even buy insurance from them for 20 bucks if your nervous about it.

Do a search on here of WedClean and youll see.


<3 Donna

just the cake

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Posted by gabbie83

1. preserving their dress
2. preserving their flowers
3. freezing their cake for 1 yr anniversary



i just froze the cake - thats about it -


drying up flowers is bad luck
and my train on my dress is ruined after saturday so i dont see the point


what do you ladies think?

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I am doing one and three- I had my gown cleaned (thank you for reminding me I need to call about it) and then preserved along with my veil too. I had stains by the end of the day trust me on that!
MIL took it to Lillette's (where I bought my gown) to get it done and she paid for it.

DH's parents are holding the top layer of our cake for our one year anniversary - if it were at our house I'd be afraid DH would eat it before then if he got the munchies.

I wanted to dry my flowers but I did the bo-k toss and we were going away the next day on the HM so I said forget about it.

I will be doing all of those!