Let them eat cake!

I'm going to be Mrs. Lucas in less than 4 months. Craziness! I remember last May, when we starting talking about all this, we thought we were crazy to be planning so early. A couple people even made comments about how we were booking things so early (a year for a venue? not so early) regardless time has ticked down and now were in crunch time. I'm sorry to those of you who are tired of reading wedding related posts, but that's pretty much what my life is about right now.

1) School 2) wedding planning 3) preparing to move in with Josh (which I have to say is the most exciting thing ever. I am so ready to live in one place, to not have to say goodbye to him every monday morning and drive back to Petoskey. To feel settled and to start to build a home.

At the very beginning, we were not going to have cake. We are scrapping a lot of the "traditional" wedding elements, cause we don't like them. For example, there is no bouquet or garter toss, cause I always hate that at weddings, and we're not having a father/daughter or mother/son dance cause our parents aren't really into dancing or being in the spotlight. We also feel like these elements break up the party. I hate it when people finally get out on the dance floor, and then the dj stops everything for the tosses - or after dinner watching 20 mins of people you don't really know (like the bridal party) dancing together.

But dessert - you are so close to my heart! We wanted to do something yummy, like a dessert buffet, but every vendor we talked to wouldn't let us bring in bakery goods, we had to buy them from them and that got pricy fast! Plus, part of the fun of a dessert buffet is having mix of treats, your favourite bakery tarts and grandmas oatmeal cookies. So we scrapped that idea. Then we thought of pie. Josh loves pie, and Jespersons here in town makes amazing pie! and we went there on our first date! But $3-4 a piece was going to kill our budget.

Originally, I didn't want my mum to make our cake. Not because she doesn't do a good job - cause she does, she makes gorgeous and delicious cakes. But because she already has a hundred wedding related jobs. And as she has made the cake for at least 10 of my relatives I've been privy to the stress that it causes. But, she is free, and I think she is excited to have a job that is all hers.

So this is the cake pic that I gave her for inspiriation. Three levels of cake, she's decided on 10",8" and 6" layers, with four layers of cake in each to give it height. We're doing white fondant with hot pink, orange and cream ranunculus.

On this cake plate - cute eh? I love wrapables.com

I think it fits us. And Josh is happy cause if my mum makes it he can have any flavour of cake he wants! (And what he wants is cherry chip) which most bakers don't do. I know he's excited cause when my mum and I talk about how much cake we need for 90 people, his response is always "it's ok if there is cake leftovers" :) god I love him.