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Bride and cake decorator Tygerlily LaBello scrambled to make her four-tier display wedding cake the night before her wedding day

Although LaBello says she probably shouldn't have procrastinated, she loved the final product and saved "several hundred dollars" in the process

LaBello "100% recommends" brides go the fake wedding cake route to cut down on costs without sacrificing aesthetic

It was approximately midnight on Aug. 31, and bride Tygerlily LaBello was still awake with her ceremony just hours away. Nerves weren't keeping her up — the unfinished wedding cake in the kitchen was.

LaBello, 27, is a full-time cake decorator. Although Indiana food safety regulations prevented her from making an edible wedding cake at home for her nuptials to Jordan Swidler, 25, she still

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