I pulled out all the wedding stuff from behind the couch the other day (ACK!) and had a bit of an organize. I put out all my cake/pie stands on the coffee table to see what they look like together. I posted about my vintage ones recently; here is what they look like with everything I have!
The two glass ones are vintage, the wire one and the centre white one are from Crate & Barrel, and the large white one is Sophie Conran. I’ve had that one for a year or two, because I felt like I needed a cake stand. Once I started packing up, and realised that I’d missed one!
Cinnamum bought this one for me at Capital Iron in Victoria, BC. The box doesn’t give a clue to the maker or anything.
It was great to lay them all out and take stock of what I’ve got. I think I’ve got enough white ones, I like the wire one because it is different in look and much taller than the others, the glass ones add pops of colour…. What else do I need? I think I want to find one of the ones that has a nice wide decorative edge that hangs down from the plate part, like these ones:
Browsing the Clara French website is fun, because you can actually rent her cake stands! I think that is really cool, because it is cheaper than buying, and you don’t need to figure out what to do with it after the wedding. I would, if I didn’t think shipping to and from Canada would be a royal pain, and a lot more money than is quoted on the site. If I was in the US though, that’s absolutely what I would do. I’ve also found another (expensive) cake stand that I lurrrve, but again I’m sure shipping will add even more on to the not-insubstantial price. This one just speaks to the hobbit inside of me:
(from Bell’occhio - why didn’t I know about this store when I was in San Francisco?!)
I think I’m doing pretty well in the cake stand department, I probably need just one more considering that some pies can just go on the table, and I want at least one on a stack of books. For some reason, this doesn’t stop me browsing Etsy, researching places I can go vintage hunting, and looking at pictures of more cake stands than I would ever need.
Does anyone else have a problem with stopping researching a topic? I don’t need to do all this anymore, but I still do…
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