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For our wedding reception, I want to try incorporating new ideas that are fun and entertaining that our guests will remember for a long time to come. Partly because I like to be a little different, but mostly because I want everyone to have an awesome time.

In the South, you grow up attending wedding receptions where there is the wedding cake…and then there’s the groom’s cake. If any of you have seen Steel Magnolias, think blood red armadillo cake. To many, it’s the chocolate cake at the reception, usually depicting something important to the groom, whether it be his alma mater, favorite sports team or hobby.

Mr. Hydrangea is pretty impartial to the whole wedding planning process. He likes to stay in the background and watch Mom H and I plan, and only gives his opinion if it is something that really concerns him. A few months ago, I brought up an alternative for his groom’s cake which he seemed to like.

Instead of having the traditional groom’s cake, there is a popular Italian Gelato Cafe here in the Dallas area called Paciugo. For a price not far off from a groom’s cake, you can get this cute cart at your reception with up to 4 flavors, cups, utensils and a server for 200 guests.

There happens to be a Paciugo about a one minute walk from the hotel where we are having our reception. Mr. H and I went in one night and talked to their manager about reserving the cart. We tasted almost every flavor they had in the store and were sold on the idea.

I think that, deep down, Mr. H still wants his own groom’s cake, and our cake isn’t the most important element of the wedding to me, so I’m still going to try to keep ours simple and get a little chocolate cake for Mr. H as well.

Have any of you incorporated fun, out of the ordinary ideas into your reception?