Wedding reminiscing is in full swing this week. This time
last year, I was picking up my wedding desserts, making sure all of our flowers
had arrived, staying up until 2:00 a.m. putting on the final little detailed
touches together that no one probably noticed but me. Wedding week was crazy
and such a blast.
For our wedding, we decided to forgo traditional sheet cake
dessert and go with a cookie bar instead. I like pretty much any kind of sweet
but my husband isn’t a huge fan of cake. We also knew that his favorite, ice
cream, would never survive the August heat. We decided to get something
everyone would love: cookies.
There is an amazing mom and pop cookie store in the skyway
by my work in Downtown Minneapolis called Classic Cookie Co. We decided to
order several different dozens of cookies for the wedding and knew this was the
place to get them from. The owner is sweet older gentleman who my coworkers
refer to as, “The Cookie Man”.
After picking out our favorite cookie flavors and putting in
our order, I set to work on getting jars and vases for our dessert table. I
found some great options at Marshalls, Walmart, Target, TJ Maxx and from our
local thrift store. I also found some
cake stands at wedding consignment shop and repainted them in our wedding
colors. I sanitized the jars and stands and then began to build out our
display. I used gold ribbon, doilies and paper from our invites to match our
escort cards.
For color, I added some candy in our wedding colors. I used
rolos for the gold and suckers to bring in the purple. It was nice to have a
few treats that the kids could grab freely.
For the last little touches, I made small signs that read, “Love
is sweet. So enjoy a treat. Thanks for making our day complete.” I also had some
doilies scattered on the table for decoration and "M" monogram cocktail napkins.
Also in lieu of a wedding cake, we had some special bride
and groom cupcakes made from Sweet Retreat that we used. Miraculously, they
lasted most of the night before we snagged the heart cupcake to share and our nephew snuck off with the groom cupcake. But we were able to save the bride and will be
eating it in celebration for our one year.
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