Wedding cake blues

[JustaCashier]

Shotgun Wedding?

Mike

[Mamadrae]

Hubby and I seriously just went back to our baker (who remembered us) and got a mini replica of our wedding cake. Was delicious.

I myself plotted out my wedding with plenty of time to spare for emergancies...that is until I got pregnant then we had to suddenly move the wedding date, which cut our guest list in half. I simply was not going to risk not fitting in my dress dang it!

Sadly I miscarried, but we kept the wedding date since it was mostly set in stone by then. I only pouted a little over being a Janurary bride instead of a May or June one. Made up for that by having an awesome hall full of flowers so it seemed like you were in a New Orleans courtyard. For a bunch of chicago folks in the middle of a freezing and nasty Janurary that was a feat.

[EvilEmpryss]

Hubby and I very carefully chose the date of our wedding. We chose the day before a popular summer holiday (not the big one with fireworks, though). The plan was that it would pretty much ensure that we had either the day before, the day of, or at least the day after the anniversary off of work. No need to take a vacation day to celebrate.

Then the kids came.

Great. We have our anniversary off work. And the kids are home, too. So much for celebratory nookie.

[Mamadrae]

Hubby and I very carefully chose the date of our wedding. We chose the day before a popular summer holiday (not the big one with fireworks, though). The plan was that it would pretty much ensure that we had either the day before, the day of, or at least the day after the anniversary off of work. No need to take a vacation day to celebrate.

Then the kids came.

Great. We have our anniversary off work. And the kids are home, too. So much for celebratory nookie.

This is what grandparents/babysitters/suckers are for.

Oh and of course toy stores, game stores, and other stores where the workers are suppose to watch the precious. Least according to some stories on these boards.

[Sauletekis]

Getting married for the cake is like getting arrested for the free photo.

Just wow... I have added this to my signature line, if that's ok

[EvilEmpryss]

Just wow... I have added this to my signature line, if that's ok

Yay! My first sig line attribution! I'm honored.

[South Texan]

Seriously, who would wait till two weeks before the wedding to start thinking about the cake?

A couple who perhaps have been engaged for some time and got hit with a flash of spontaneity?

A couple who want to get married before he is shipped off to somewhere like Iraq, so they do not have much time to plan the event?

A couple who want to get married before one of them has a risky operation or dies from a terminal disease/condition?

A couple who need to be married for insurance reasons because one of them needs expensive medical treatments?

A couple who are not big planners/worriers over details?

At least this woman did not throw a fit or get sucky about you not being able to accommodate her.

Hubby and I seriously just went back to our baker (who remembered us) and got a mini replica of our wedding cake.

Me and Mrs. South Texan did the same.

[sylvier]

Oh is that why we have had requests for wedding cake cupcakes? I thought it was all Martha's fault. Poor bride - but, she now knows what she'll be in for!

[CoffeeMonkey]

At the bakery my friend worked at, the price of the wedding cake included a voucher for a little cake for the first year anniversary. I think it's a grand idea.

I made a friend's wedding cake this halloween, and I plan to present them with a tiny cake next year. If I have time, I'll do the fondant and gumpaste work on it as well. A pretty big if, as it took me a month to do the roses and ivy leaves for the full cake.

[Enjis]

For our first anniversary, the bakery that made our cake gave us a coupon for a free mini-cake. It was beautifully decorated and tasted wonderful. Much better than thawing the old cake. (their thought on that was that they wanted their customers to remember how wonderful their wedding cake was, not how dry and stale!)

[AyreBiskits]

we got married in las vegas by an elvis impersonator on memorial day. everything was planned out, except the dinner and cake. we never really thought about it. it was more of a planned elopement anyway. we ended up having our dinner at Circus Circus at the casino buffet restaurant and had carrot cake as our wedding cake. i don't think we would have wanted to have frozen year old carrot cake anyway

[EvilEmpryss]

My anniversary cake wound up squished on a highway somewhere because my twit of a sister took it, my bouquet (that I made myself with silk flowers), and my makeup bag and left them on the roof of her car as she left the reception.

[42_42_42]

Send her to Costco or Walmart. They'll do it, it'll look good, and it'll taste great it'll look and taste like the cheap piece of crap that it is, but It also won't cost half the reception budget.

But yeah, waiting this long to get the cake means either poor planning or problems with a previous baker.

Fixed that for you.

My cake cost more than my dress (cake: $500, dress: $400) and was worth every penny.

Top tier was eaten on our first anniversary and was delicious.

I had wanted to save my bouquet and dry the flowers, but didn't have time to do it before we left on the honeymoon. My dad took my bouquet and stuck it in a plastic bag. It rotted and had to be discarded.

We got married on the ides of March.

[angelicafire]

(their thought on that was that they wanted their customers to remember how wonderful their wedding cake was, not how dry and stale!)

The cake is a lie!

Sorry, someone had to say it!

[crashhelmet]

"Procrastination is just like masturbation. In the end, you're only screwing yourself."

CH