Wedding Blog

Note to Mr. Fondue: This contains photos of my half of the cake topper, so please look elsewhere if you happen to see this post.

One of the most exciting purchases for our wedding has been our cake topper. We were thrilled when we learned we could get a custom cake topper based off of our Mii avatars from our Nintendo Wii. A few different people offered them, but we finally settled on Paul Pape Designs so that we could get completely customized toppers wearing our wedding attire.

I took pictures of our Miis and sent them in along with photos of our attire. Mr. Fondue still hadn’t decided on the black tux or the pinstripe, but he didn’t want to wait, so we opted to make his Mii wear an all black tux for simplicity’s sake.

My biggest conundrum was with my Mii’s hair. I always wear my hair parted to the side, and my everyday Mii reflects that. However, I will have an updo on the wedding day, so I thought I would like my topper Mii to have one as well. But the closest updo choice had a part in the middle. I ended up Photoshopping a mixture of the two hairstyles, so that the updo would have a side part. Mr. Fondue took issue with this at first, since it wasn’t an original Mii hairstyle. But I pointed out that Miis don’t wear tuxes and wedding gowns either, and he relented.

We placed our order early, back in April, but I told him not to rush, since we still had some time. We were rewarded last weekend with our exquisite topper! Mr. Fondue has only seen his Mii, since he wants my dress to be a secret, hence the warning at the beginning of the post.

I love how his glasses are 3D.

Check out the gorgeous detail work he did on my gown. You can’t really tell in these shots, but he even added some glitter to the bodice to show off the sparkly beading.

I love how the train flows off of the back.

The base has a magnet in it, so we can separate them or join them together.

What are you topping your cake with?