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The economy still, well…sucks. Unfortunately, the cost of weddings seems to keep chugging right along.  A prewifer emailed me the other day asking if there was a way to save on some of the costs. Now, there are definitely ways to save for a wedding, just browse the pages here and you are bound to find a few. But this one requires a little talent in the kitchen. So unless you are skilled in the arts of culinary or know someone who is, perhaps this is more of a video to watch on your couch then in your kitchen.  If you think all you need is a little inspiration to get in the kitchen and make your prewife whole, figure that a typical wedding cake costs around $300 to feed 30 people.  Oh yeah, don’t forget to let the prewife in on this little caper as well, lest she show her disapproval. Better yet, bring her in on the idea at the beginning and make it seem like a relationship building exercise:
“Honey you can bake the cake and I will make the icing!” Hey, it could work.

There have been some crazy weddings out there. You remember the bride with the life-sized cake made in her image right? How about a Shrek wedding…Dressed as Shrek and Fionna? Sound strange? Yeah, well, go figure.

The story goes that these two love birds were a few months out from the altar. The Future Mrs decided that her hubby to be looked too much like Shrek not to take advantage of the opportunity. On their wedding day they hired a makeup artist and spent some three hours getting “Shreked” up for the ceremony.   Mr. and Mrs. Green (seriously…that’s their last name) are now probably on Holiday, sans the green makeup.

No word from Donkey’s Rep as to why he was not invited…

Whelp, you just can’t go wrong by letting your man have a bachelor party and blow off some steam before he sacrifices gets ready to share the rest of his life with you.

And nothing really shows you care, a lot, about him then to blow scads of the little bit of cash you have left after buying that $5,000 wedding dress on his man cake.

We here at Prewife are always on the prowl for a cake worth to be called mancake. Today we have found a pretty damn good one: the engine cake… Feast your eyes. No word yet if the engine oil is 10W30 grade carmel sauce.

The wedding. As a guy, you think about it all your life during commercials with hot models: “Man that would be sweet to be shacked up with that hot babe for life…”

I honestly believe that society has geared men not to take much of an interest in marriage until the very last possible second – such as when you realize you need the blue pill and your days as a player are OVER. So, while we are out there happily sowing our wild oats with no idea that within a year or two we could be hitched, the inevitability of a drained bank account looms large on the horizon. You’ve felt its presence… when you wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat on your brow and you realize that perhaps one night a week and weekends IS too much time to be spending with your girl.

And you should be afraid, very afraid. As we have speculated here before, the cost of matrimony keeps going up! The average wedding in the US today starts….starts at $7,000 – not including Read the rest of this entry »

As we have been searching the interweb to find wedding cake ideas, I keep coming across some incredibly inventive, cool and downright crazy wedding cakes out there.

As I have said before, put the word “wedding” in front of anything and the price jumps by 50%. Use the combination of wedding and cake anywhere in the same sentence and you, my friend, are screwed. I have seen plain three-tiered white icing with black cake confections that can feed up to 90 people for about $1,000.

WTF!? That is 10 bucks a slice! I know that may not sound too expensive as you sit cuddled up on your couch or goofing off at work while reading this post, but trust me, come wedding night, after the party is over and it is time to settle up with the caterer, you will be saying WTF for the ext month.

But it is a wedding! Why all the negativity! Relax, enjoy, try not to think of the fact that you are spending anywhere from 10 to $40,000 dollars for just fives hours…

So, if you are going to drop some serious cash on a cake then, my friend, you need to go big! The more crazy the better! Just check out some of these cakes of mass craziness (tell us what you think!) after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »