Me and my fiance decided to have a cupcake tier and a mini. cake on the top. The thing is we are making it ourselves. The baking part will be easy but decorating is another thing. I want to have flowers or maybe butterflies. Especially since the place we are getting married is famous of monarch butterflies. We have thought much about the decoration of the cake and cupcakes. But I have no idea where to start. I know it would be hard to do, but I want it to look somewhat professional. Any one knows a website that shows how to make fancy looking flowers or any kind of fancy cake/cupcake decorations?? Or maybe can just explain how to do the fancy looking decorating?

Since you are saving money doing it yourself — why not purchase some butterflies from a cake decorating store. Here is one:
http://www.bizrate.com/partysupplies/oid628665245__start–20.html

This also popped up in the search - check out this for your wedding program:
http://www.advantagebridal.com/mobuwepr.html

For the mini cake on top I would cover it with white icing making sure it is as smooth as you can get it. Then, using the pastry bag and a small circular tip, make polka dots all over the sides. Keep them random and cover the top with some beautiful flowers. Talk with you local florist and order some flowers that do not have pesticides on them and have a friend or the bakery insert them directly into the cake just prior to the reception. If you use a hardier flower (not white roses) it should last. Or, look into silk flowers. Either way it will be beautiful.

As far as icing the cupcakes, I would use a pastry bag again with a star tip. This will give you some beautiful texture to the icing but you won't have to worry about it being perfect, the butterfly will cover most of it.

Oh, I have another idea — for your table arrangements, you can fill a flower pot (the inexpensive terracotta ones with a matching saucer) with soil and plant grass seed (2 weeks before the day) . Using hot glue, attach more of the same butterflies to different lengths of wooden skewers and insert them into the grass. Tie a beautiful satin ribbon around the flower pot.

I hope that gets your creative juices flowing. Congrats and good luck with the arrangements.

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