Mrs. Corn, Newport, RI
Age and Occupation in '07: 31, HR for public accounting firm
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Consultant for public accounting firm
Engagement Date: October 7, 2006
Wedding Date: September, 2007
Blogging Since: June 1, 2007
Venue: North Lawn of Fort Adams State Park
About Me: I am a lazy scrapbooker who loves the instant gratification of making cards and I am very easily distracted by all things shiny. In honor of my childhood nights spent hibachi BBQing on the beach with my family, we are hosting a traditional New England Clambake for our reception.
Looking Back, Continued…
May 28th, 2008 @ 5:55 pm by Mrs. Corn
This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series* focuses on one of the details about our big day that I wish I had planned for a bit better: cake cutting logistics.
As you can see in the photos above, Mr Corn and I go from ‘Hey, let’s cut the cake’ to ‘hmmmm, how about this side’ to ‘fine, I’ll just jam the knife in’ to ‘for crying out loud, how hard can this be?!’
The issue was that there was a rigid insert in between the layers of the cake that we kept hitting when trying to actually cut the cake. In hindsight, I just wish I had realized this so that I would have known to try to cut around it rather than fiddle around and eventually just jam the knife into our pretty cake.
The second cake issue we had was that there wasn’t a fork and a plate on the table for us to use had we wanted to. And believe me, I am of the ‘don’t lick my fingers, you don’t know where they’ve been’ school of thinking, so I really would have liked to have had a fork and a plate.
Granted, the caterer should be on top of that, but (again) in hindsight, had I ever thought of it prior to the wedding, I would have made sure to request it and then it really wouldn’t have been an issue.
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*Previously in this series…
I’m so glad I did this:
renting a full length mirror
setting my DIY deadline for a week out from the wedding
making arrangements for my disabled father so he could participate
having an ’open-door policy’ at the site where I got ready
I wish I could fix this:
being too proud to start a few minutes late
not testing all of the directions before sending them out
forgetting to pause before rushing down the aisle
7 Responses to “Looking Back, Continued…”
I’ll bet, though, that you guys doing it that way was over-the-top adorable to everyone else.
Ya know? When we were cutting the cake, I thought… “Should we have forks and plates? How do they do it in all the photos I’ve seen? Oh well!”
I had the same problem cutting my wedding cake last summer! Who knew cake cutting could be so hard?! The cake baker should really have warned us about that darn rigid insert between the layers. You guys did make it look cute though!
Agreed, Mrs. Corn.
This is why having an awesome coordinator is so key… when she told us it was time to cut the cake we had to ask her if there was any trick to it. She told us exactly what to do. She also made sure there were two forks and a plate right there for us in advance.
Yup, I *heart* our coordinator! 
I am loving this series… and making a little check-list from it!
Great post — adding that to my “be sure to check” list for my Day-Of Coordinator. I really like this series! Keep ‘em comin!
You both look so cute in those pics 
