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Remember my post about choosing a cake design?

Everyone had a different favorite, but a handful of you agreed with mine:

Image via Slice Cake Studio / The brooch and sparkle just does it for me!

Before our appointment with Linda, I showed Mr. Ball Cap various cake pictures, and he was on board with the brooch. I also told him I was kind of a fan of the quilted-pattern look on a cake. We browsed around the internet and printed a few more styles to show Linda.

Image via Cake Central

Image via Palermo Bakery

Image via Cake Savvy

Image via Palermo Bakery

I figured most of these would be too “blingy” for Mr. Ball Cap, but at least we could get a feel for cakes that had both a brooch and quilting look.

Hive—Mr. Ball Cap liked the last one the best. Yep. The most blinged-out cake was his favorite. I was in shock! Who is this man? LOL. After talking some more, what he really liked were the squared tiers and how each tier was a little offset from the previous. He thought the quilting was cool and knew that the brooches would tie in to other things we planned on doing. How insightful!

At our appointment with Linda, we shared our various pictures and ideas. She started digging around in her binder and pulled out a picture. It was our cake! It was exactly what we were leaning toward. She had just done a four-tier, quilted cake for a New Year’s Eve wedding for her son last year. This lady was so meant to be!

I really thought a four-tier cake would be way out of our budget and we’d have a much smaller cake for cutting and sheet cakes in the back. But Linda is amazing and we get to have a four-tier, buttercream-frosted cake, with offset tiers, quilting on the bottom and second tier, navy ribbon around all tiers, and brooches on the non-quilted tiers for $150 less than our budget! It will have a similar look to the last pic above, but without the blingy belting or the sheen on the frosting/fondant. Ours will have a much softer look.

I don’t plan on purchasing a cake topper, as I cannot find one I like. With as much detail as our cake will have, we won’t miss not having one. Linda has made sugar-snowflake toppers in the past, so we could always add that during our final consultation if we want.

Oh—and her cakes taste amazing! We tried her vanilla and lemon cakes and loved them both. We plan on having two to three flavors throughout the cake, and one tier will possibly have a filling.

So as much as I loved a lot of the other designs (the confetti cake!), Mr. Ball Cap’s opinions and my love of brooches and quilting patterns really pushed us to the right look.

Did your other half surprise you with an opinion or idea on a wedding-related matter?