Weddingbee Blog

I had a whole cake plan. Well, it was more of a dessert plan. See I don’t really love cake - I mean plain birthday/wedding cake type cake with frosting and such. In fact, I border on dislike with a few exceptions, but I love dessert. I love baking and Mr Robin’s mom has made wedding cake and other family members have baking talent. So I thought that we would lay out an amazing dessert spread of a small wedding cake, cheesecake, cookies, tres leches cake, and pie. Something like this:

(From Josiah’s Catering, a crazy beautiful caterer from Manila)

I still think it is a grand idea, and if it had been any other time of year it would have worked out, but we put our families in a pinch, we know, by getting married only eleven days after Christmas. There just isn’t enough time to do everything that we want.

So, about two weeks before Christmas, we all began to realize that there is a certain love expressed in buying dessert - love for our families. Though it would be meaningful to have a course supplied by family, it is also meaningful to just let everyone relax and enjoy.

We turned to Saint Cupcake. Fellow Portlanders will be familiar with Saint Cupcake’s amazingly delicious cupcakes, but what they might not know is that the sweet little bakery does full size cakes in the same flavors of their cupcakes, and they will even put together a sweet little arrangement like this:

A small little cake on the top for the two of you to cut and custom dyed cupcakes all around. And since I am slightly obsessed with the Toasted Coconut Cream cupcakes, guess what our little personal cake shall be…

Once again not exactly what I wanted to happen, but I think it turned out for the best.