I've talked about how adorable the kids were at least a few times.
What does that leave?
Oh right, there was the cake cutting bit.
Everyone knows when it comes to the newlyweds eating their first bit of cake it can go one of two ways. There's the everyone is all nice and happy as they each feed each other a piece and then move on to more important things.
Or there's the dark side of cake feeding when the cake suddenly gets out of hand and the next thing you know there's a huge food fight.
Well my husband came up with a third option.
I was all prepared to do the traditional cut a piece, he feeds you then you feed him a slice. Well mister impatient couldn't wait that long, so while I had the first piece of cake in my mouth he swooped in. We eventually met in the middle Lady & the Tramp style.
I was laughing so hard at the unexpected move it's a wonder we didn't make a huge frosting mess (not that I would have minded chocolate butter cream rules).
I guess that's it. The end of the wedding. Time to close that chapter and move onto the next. Got to ride off into the sunset. Yep, all over. Nothing to see, move on.
Oh what the hell, for anyone who wants to really flip through all the pictures here's my just added Flickr pile.
At least a drawn concept of it. (I do keep my promises even if it takes me a long time to get around to it) The inside part is pretty simple, the top and bottom layer are a white cake with a chocolate buttercream frosting (fondant is evil!) and the middle layer is yellow cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. All of it has a raspberry filling (and even though my birthday is coming up I hope I don't have to eat anymore cake til the wedding, that cake tasting was a lot and then some).
It was actually designed all by my guy. He had the idea to incorporate some hidden halloween ideas into it. So we have the bottom that has those fancy bottom loops thing in white and then if there were some small spiders (drawn much bigger as I can't draw). Then the middle layer would have some leaves blowing in the wind and hidden in there outlined in blue would be some ghosts. Finally the last layer would have stars/moons/clouds to give a spooky fall night feel.
It's nice that my guy got a chance to add his own creative spin to something very weddingish, and we didn't have to spend hours flipping through their cake books and debating which one looked nice (it was long and hard enough doing that for the tuxes). Our baker also threw in some really good ideas (like the ghosts outlined in blue).
In the end, if you want to go outside the white on white box of a wedding cake go for it! Ask your guy (what guy doesn't love food and frosting?) and especially get some input from your baker. It (so far) has worked out great for us.
When we first got engaged my Mother was chomping at the bit to get something done, so I thought it'd be really cool if she could design a cake topper that looked a bit like us. When I was younger she'd always take greenware, shape it, then gloss it and have it fired. I thought that would look really cool, and wouldn't be something we'd have to worry about for months.
So imagine my surprise when she shows up in January toting a gigantic and over the top cake thing complete with tulle and white beads (we have the same issue right now with our unity candle that is probably gonna get re-tooled). At first I figured we could work with it, but then after meeting with our baker to design our cake (more on that later after I make some fun photoshop stuff) and realizing that our cake is going to be more simple and also have some halloween touches there was no way this thing would work.
Instead I went out and got myself a more simple but not too bad topper (Call me old school or tacky but I always kinda liked the bride and groom ones. We don't have any flowers planned at the reception so that wasn't an option and I have a deep hatred of song birds). But it doesn't really look like us. So I took out my paintbrush, some toothpicks and got to work. The first thing I did was change the pink flowers to blue (pink and I do not get along well), I also changed the color of the brides hair to match mine a bit more and then added glasses to both of them. Then, after giving the tux a green vest, I got down to the fun stuff. I took some cardstock and rolled it into a cone and glued a bit of the fabric from my tail to it and attached that to the bride. For the groom, using a steady hand, I painted on some Groucho eyebrows and a mustache (no idea how to add a cigar). I think it turned out really cool. They still don't quite look like us but it sure is a lot closer (and the glasses were insanely hard to do). My friends already think I'm crazy so this should just be another nail in the coffin.
How about the rest of you? You guys doing anything different for a cake topper?
It's been a very weddingy past 12 hours for us. Last night we met with our wedding coordinator who is a good friend and also recently got engaged. I ordered in some pizza and we spent most of the night talking about different things we've found for our weddings and how our various plans are going. It is an interesting experience as I'm planning for mid October and have about a year, she's planning for early November and has 6 months.
We did eventually get down to business and decided who was sitting where and walking and what not. (I have managed to get out of the grand entrance by not having any ushers, hooray!) I'm guessing most people when they meet with their church "telling you where to go" people they don't have some pizza and chat about wedding and other things, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I just view this whole thing as a sort of laid back get together and not a "Once in a lifetime, call now or you'll miss it" event.
Then this morning we went and picked up some cake samples to try at home. We had three different fillings in the red category (raspberry, cherry, and strawberry) and two different frosting options (with boring white cake, we want chocolate buttercream so white goes well with black I think). Well the frosting tasted the exact same and the cherry was a dud. So it came down to rasp vs straw in a battle royale. In the end rasp pulled it out and KOed straw in the 9th round. I've also learned from all that tasting that I am not really a cake person, it was a lot of cake, and am glad we don't have to do that again. (I thought that was supposed to be the best part of the whole planning experience *shrug*)
I suspect there will be a major sugar rush in about three minutes. . .
Otherwise the rest of the fun filled past 12 hours (where we weren't sleeping) was spent enjoying each others company playing Lego Indiana Jones. That game rules!
If you've played the Lego Star Wars before this has so much more to it. Every character has its own special skills and you can pick up things like shovels/wrenchs/bazookas. Though 9 times out of 10 we just wound up blowing each other up.
I'd say that if you have to get a game to play together then get one of the Lego ones (Batman is gonna hit in October, I know my guy is more excited about that one, but I've always loved Raiders). There are a lot of puzzles to figure out, death really isn't that big of a deal, and block young Harrison Ford is still sexy. It's gotta be a lot more fun than Wii fit.
Oh a sad note, I am not cool enough for weddingbee, but then again I'm not really cool enough for the arctic. And now it's time for that sugar rush, WHEEEEE!
I was laughing so hard at the unexpected move it's a wonder we didn't make a huge frosting mess (not that I would have minded chocolate butter cream rules).
