Cake Tastings are a Myth

Cake tastings are a myth. Emily and I were discussing this after I made an embarrassing phone call to a bakery in town about scheduling a cake tasting and thoroughly confused the man on the other end of the line.

They show people doing them on TV and in movies. I’ve even read about it being done in books. I really should haven taken more advantage of the cakes available to sample at the bridal fair in January. There were so many cakes and other food samples that I stopped eating things after the 3rd vendor or so.

I’m going to let mom make the call about what kind of cake to get. I don’t care for frosting and Andrew doesn’t even like cake. (His grooms cake is going to be a cheesecake...yum!) We’ve heard rumors about fondant not being the tastiest frosting in the world (but since neither of us care for butter cream or whipped cream frosting, maybe fondant would be a good alternative).

Mom and I went to scope out some wedding dress shops in town on Saturday. We’d never been to Ellynnes, so we took the trip across town to check it out. The place was busy, and we hadn’t made an appointment (but to this point, we haven’t made appointments anywhere) and we were totally ignored. Not a single sales person even acknowledged our existence. We were there for 15 minutes or so, looking through the dresses on the racks. Slowly we discovered that almost every dress in the store was size 8 or 10. I saw a few size 6 dresses every now and then, I ran into one size 12 dress. But basically, very few sizes I could have squeezed into. Very disappointing visit, especially for how pricey the dresses were. So, we won’t be stopping back there again.

We stopped into J’Maries also, to make an appointment for next weekend and to pick out a few dresses for me to try on. They were very busy, but it didn’t stop the employees from acknowledging our presence. In fact, the lady dropped what she was doing to help us, and scheduled our appointment. Then, when she finished with her other customers, she gave us a tour of the store. The best part, they have dresses in my size for me to try on! I described what I was looking for, and I was brought a dress that was almost exactly what I was picturing. I’m really excited to go back next weekend.

Also, mom and I found some eiffel tower vases for the center pieces at Michael’s on clearance. Lynnette mentioned that we should look for red items for the center pieces after Valentine’s Day, but since we were in Topeka that weekend, we didn’t have a chance to shop for that kind of thing. Luckily, Michael’s still had a lot of their Valentines items out. We were thinking of renting the clear eiffel tower vases for $10 a piece (that was the best price we could find), but they ended up costing more like $1.50 each, and they were red...perfect! (I only wish they had more. We got all 13, but we will probably have more like 15-20 tables. I’m sure we will be able to find something else for the other tables...perhaps something a little more special for the head table and parent’s tables.)

I showed them to Andrew, and we’re thinking about having him create some wire art to wrap around the vases and the flowers that will be in them. That would be really special. He showed us some wire samples this weekend that I think would work beautifully. I’m sure they will look spectacular, knowing how talented and artistic Andrew is.