Weddingbee Blog

Last time we talked, I shared a little bit about the various categories of cake toppers and my feelings on each of them. I think it’s safe to ruin the suspense and say that I didn’t choose the traditional, the “anti-wedding”, or the completely inappropriate categories. I’m still having nightmares about that last one!

Annnyways, for me, it was really hard to decide between two categories. Which ones, you ask? The animal cake toppers, and the wooden people cake toppers. They were my two favorites because they’re both SO freaking adorable. I was having a really hard time deciding which one I liked better, so I decided to ask Mr. Cardigan. I mean, he is the groom, after all. He should have some sort of say in this stuff, right?

So, I showed him a bunch of different cake toppers, and he completely shocked me with his very opinionated ideas on cake toppers! He fell in love with one of the ones that I showed him and he immediately told me that it was exactly what he wanted. Want to see the one he fell in love with?

(Source - from Etsy seller fliepsiebieps)

Holy crap, that thing is adorable. Mr. C was immediately smitten with it and he loved the idea of animal cake toppers. So, since he had fallen so hard for this one, I figured that we’d stick with the penguins. I mean, they’re adorable and they kind of fit since our wedding is in the middle of winter. Granted, it’s a Texas winter so I don’t know how much that really counts, but it’s still winter, dammit! And since nothing else in our entire wedding thus far has anything to do with winter, I thought it’d be fun to have a little reference to it in our cake.

But, Mr. Cardigan had other ideas. It still cracks me up that he chooses such random things to care so much about - but I’m not complaining… I love how involved he has been so far! Mr. C had specific animals in mind for us to use for our cake topper, and he wanted me to be an elephant.

WAIT! An elephant? How insulting is that, right? Well, actually, it’s really sweet. You see, I have this thing for elephants. I don’t know why, but I think they’re probably the cutest things in the world. My obsession with them started the first time Mr. Cardigan and I ever went to the zoo together - it was for his 17th birthday, and I had surprised him with a trip to the San Antonio Zoo. We had a blast walking around, and when we stumbled on the elephants I made him spend about half an hour watching them with me, I gave them names, and begged him to let me take them home. Unfortunately, that was a no go. Anyways, I have been obsessed with elephants ever since, and they’re my favorite animal. So, it’s only fitting that my animal alter-ego would be an elephant!

One of the elephants that I fell in love with - giving himself a dust bath because it was September in Texas and it was HOT!

(If you’re interested, I believe I named this one Frank.)

As for Mr. Cardigan’s animal? He would be a bear! Funny enough, the story behind this one is from the same day as my elephant story. Mr. C was so excited to be at the zoo and he was in such a giddy mood - plus, he was 17, which makes boys a bit immature. Not that it gets any better when they get older, but I digress.

When Mr. C and I saw on the bears at the zoo, he thought they were so much fun - he was roaring at them and trying to communicate, bear-style (I think he was trying to channel Dori - “weeee neeeeed to fiiiiind his sooooooooooooon!”). I got some super adorable pictures of him communicating with the bear, and they never fail to crack me up:

“Rawr, I’m a bear!”

So, um, yeah. He likes to talk to bears. It’s been an inside joke between us ever since then, so we thought it was only appropriate to have him be a bear! So, it was decided! We’d have an elephant and a bear on our cake topper. We looked through dozens of Etsy sellers before we decided on one person to make our topper, and I quickly shot her an email and asked if she thought she could manage our request.

She said yes! So, for the next 5 weeks I anxiously awaited an email saying it was ready. I don’t have much patience, if you haven’t noticed yet. Finally, about two weeks ago I received an email from her telling me it was ready! I looked at the photos she had sent and I freaked out. It was even cuter than I had pictured it in my head! So, I quickly told her we would take it and then began anxiously waiting for it to come. Do you see a pattern here? Anyways, it finally came last week and OMG, y’all. It’s freaking adorable.

Want to see it?

…Come back later! (I know, I know! I’m mean!)

What would you and your SO’s animal alter-egos be?