Having a masquerade wedding need ideas for a cake and what to serve

Welcome to WW Andrea ~ do you have your venue yet? What colors are you doing.

Tell us more of what type of atmosphere you are going for. Describe your vision, give us some adjectives.

~ happy planning ~

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Yes I'm having my wedding in my aunt's backyard which is huge and surrounded by orange trees. I'm having the reception at a hall my colors are gold,white,black,and red I'm trying to do an elegant masquerade not Mardi gras masquerade I was thinking about having an italian menu but not sure exactly what. The bridesmaids dresses have been difficult since in my eyes all the dresses look the same trying to find a ball gown type

Hahah I'm here. I'm having a masquerade theme too, so I can give you a few ideas.

Beads, feathers, & of course masks are the typical. We are doing a "traditional faire" meal, chicken, mashed potatoes, beef, rolls. So I would think olden day foods. Cake, anything goes I think. I've seen topsy turvy cakes, square, etc. If you google "masquerade ______ (insert cake, wedding ideas, themes) trust me you will get alot of ideas.

I think it depends on how "masque" you want to go. Are you doing just small accents, or going all out? If you're going all out, think ren faire/gothic/victorian attire for WP. Masques are all about the bling & bold. So depending on your colors, there's so many options available

Some clothing ideas

Want to go all the way like the last pic but fiancée says he won't go that far lol o well I have my save the dates but was thinking bout sending them with chocolate covered strawberries or cookies in the shape of masks decorated and the invites I wanted were a scroll with a gold cage but they are $14 each so I want to try to make my own the bridesmaid s dresses I have only found two that I like but not sure if they completely match my theme here's one cant find a pic of the other one

The satin underneath the dress will be gold not pink

This is my dress wish I would have chose a colored one but the ones in my price range ($1,500) all looked like quinceera dresses

Here the other dress found it which do you think looks better

Here's the invitations I wanted not sure if I can do these myself but I am going to try

Those invitations look gorgeous!

Here's the save the dates

Did a poem on the back

Looks beautiful!!!!

And those scroll invites are Gorgeous. Those also will cost a pretty penny to mail because of the shape/size.

How big is your budget for you invites? How many guests are you having?

That is going to cost you a lot in shipping if you send a strawberry or cookie to every guest. Have you considered just having them at the wedding as a favor?

I like the longer dress.

~ congrats

My budget is $300 I'm having around $200 guests and yes I've thought about the shipping and thought maybe I could just hand them out at one of our family bar-b-qs since we have them at least once a month thought about having them at the reception but decided I'd rather do the picture frames for the photo booth pics

O and I liked the longer dress as well most of my bridesmaids would like the short one though so I might just do both dresses see how it looks with them standing next to eachother

200 guests.. that would be around 100 invites.... one per house not one per guest.... so a budget of $3 per invite.... so yes $14 per invite does sound a little out of the budget.

Lol yeah my MOH has offered to buy them for me but I don't feel comfortable having she spend all that money ....yea it's 60 invites got a lot of college students that I can send invites to their moms and count them in

All of your ideas look great! I did just want to point out that Shakespeare is missing it's final e in that poem! (the poem is beautiful, by the way!) I'm assuming you didn't already send them out. If you did, whatever! No one would notice, I'm sure.

Thanks I didn't even notice or any of my BMs now to decide if I want to send them back and wait a few more weeks for new ones dang