Wedding Blog

And I mean Me’s and not Mii’s, though if Mr. Petunia had his choice, our wedding cake would look like a Nintendo Wii and our cake topper people would be shaped like our Nintendo avatars instead of our real selves in wedding dress and tux!I present you, albeit in a poorly lit picture, our Nicole Clark cake topper!

(you can click on the image for a larger picture)

That’s our Niles A. Jones in the middle, his collar and heart tag recreated to a “T,” sharing the stage with a Monopoly terrier and watching over our Monopoly home. Nicole was even kind enough, in the crafting process, to tweak “my” earrings so they would look like my Regina B ones and Mr. P underwent a corneal transplant of sorts so that his cake topper self’s eyes would be more true to his green/hazel eyes in real life.

I must be honest and say that half way through, I started to have second thoughts about a custom cake topper, perhaps thinking it was a bit self indulgent to crown our cake with look-alikes of ourselves…plus I was being so taunted by all those other beautiful options that are out there now (damn you vintage birds!).

I even went as far as ordering this Department 56 one, taking no mind whatsoever of the warning “Note that this is a small topper!,” which they meant quite literally — it’s lovely, particularly because it’s also in our wedding colors and oh that top hat…I’m obsessed with them — as it’s really an ornament.

But alas, now that we see ourselves in mini-couple-ready-to-top-the-cake-form, what can we say? We love “ourselves,” we want our cake, and we’re going to eat it, too!