Weddingbee Blog

I present to you our wedding cake that I sketched up!

Cake Stats: 3 white square tiers with whipped cream icing; accented with yellow bands, white pearl dots, beautiful white daisies, and our lovely custom cake toppers in our likeness.

A few weekends ago, Mr. Dolphin and I made a trip home for a cake tasting at Heavenly Cheesecake in Holly Hill, FL.

Sunny MOH had her cake made there. It was so incredibly delicious that I had TWO pieces at her wedding (which was immediately followed by a sugar high where I danced around her reception like a crazy mad woman… but that is another story!).

When Mr. Dolphin and I arrived, we were quickly seated and greeted with this:

From left to right: white cream cake with strawberry filling, tropical carrot cake, and chocolate cream cake with raspberry filling

Now I must say that Mr. Dolphin is NOT an icing person, so when I saw Mr. Dolphin not only eat ALL the icing on his samples, but the icing on MINE, I knew we had a winning baker.

In the end we went with the tropical carrot cake (made from scratch and with pineapple! It’s what the baker calls a true labor of love… which will come to bite us in the butt on cost), and white cream cake with raspberry filling.

Mr. Dolphin posing with a square cake about the same size ours will be! Hooray!

I have to say I’m SUPER excited about our cake. Our cake is going to be delicious and makes me feel incredibly fancy… okay, maybe the ’fancy’ part comes from the chic square silver cake stand we are renting for it.

Now, here comes my confession…

Mr. Dolphin and I had no idea how much our beautiful dream cake was going to cost in the end. We were really quite shocked when we were told the price. But, in retrospect we should have expected it. Not only did we pick out a more expensive icing (per Mr. Dolphin’s taste buds’ request), but we also picked out a labor intensive flavor (uh… that Tropical Carrot Cake is AMAZING) and the cake is rather large, feeding 165 people (and the layers are really thick and tall… so it could probably feed more). Why such a big cake to feed so many people, when we are only expecting 150… and possibly less? (The number now stands at 120. Eek! So much cake!)

Well… Mr. Dolphin and I already know that this tropical carrot cake is going to be a hit (heck… we wanted them to make us a cake to-go!) and we want to be ABSOLUTELY SURE we get as much tropical carrot cake as we want… hence the top of the cake will be nicely preserved for eating after our honeymoon (as suggested by the baker) or on our 1 year anniversary.

If our cake is as delicious as Sunny MOH’s cake was,  I’m sure it will be gone by the end of the night… ’cause I know I wasn’t the only person to eat two slices at her wedding!

When researching online (mostly to make myself feel better about our cake price), I found our cost per slice of cake is in the mid-range… which certainly eases my mind. {ahhh}

What was the one item you ended up splurging on for your wedding?