Wedding Blog

I ran across these darlings from The Felted Pair during my daily Etsy troll:

They’re so appropriate for the hive! Can you imagine this on top of some delicious lemon buttercream or vanilla buttercream?

Without further ado, I give your our fabulous, fabulous cake from Sugar Syndicate:

Mr. Cheeseburger and I both love funfetti cake with rainbow chip icing. In my opinion, it is the. best. cake. ever. Hands down.

If I had my way, I would be DIYing our funfetti wedding cake, but Cheeseburger Mom put the brakes on that idea.

I have a confession:

I am wary of pretty cakes.

Don’t get me wrong, I watch Ace of Cakes and Cake Boss with the best of them. I find cakes shaped as people, automobiles and wintery mountaintops fascinating feats of artistry. I ooh and ahh over little gumpaste butterflies during the Food Network’s “Make a Tropical Paradise” Cake Challenge.

Still, I am utterly confused by the wedding-cake-as-art phenomenon. Comments…

Would it be weird to buy a cake topper for a wedding that happened two years ago? Yeah. That would be weird. Hopefully, I can live vicariously through you. Somebody HAS to get one of these. They are too awesome to pass up. Check out Over The Top Studios here.

When we left off, I had fallen in love with little wooden versions of Mr Pretzel and me, like the ones made by goosegrease on Etsy. Mr Pretzel was pretty smitten with the idea, too. Something about the simplicity of these minis spoke to our clean, modern sense of design. This project stayed on the back burner until a trip to Jo-Ann’s Fabric. Mr Pretzel…

Mr Pretzel loves cupcakes… no, no, no, I don’t think you get me… he LOOOOVES cupcakes. According to him it is the perfect serving of cake. They are like little cake nirvana in your hand. I like cupcakes and I’m not too crazy about wedding cake. So it was a no brainer early on---we were having wedding cupcakes.

I spent this past weekend in Savannah tying up the last few loose ends of our wedding in person. One of those loose ends was making sure our wedding cake is constructed as close to my vision as possible.

When I first visited Publix to discuss our cake, I was told there would be no problem recreating the Martha Stewart cake I found online. Remember this?

We’re not having a big, traditional wedding cake. We’ll be having a little cake, made by my sister (who works in a bakery). We’ll have a groom’s cake from a local bakery and a table full of other desserts that family members are making. So, I haven’t put a ton of thought into the cake, but I have a few criteria. It won’t be fancy,…

As we’re in the midst of picking a caterer and all the madness that comes along with designing a menu within our budget, I wanted to share my idea for dessert. Mr Trail Mix and I decided almost immediately that a big, fancy wedding cake was just not in the cards for us. I love wedding cakes; many of them could be pieces of art,…

So I finally found someone to do our groom’s cake at a price that didn’t include an arm, leg, soul, or firstborn child! I’m working with Sonja of Art Cake Company in Savannah and can’t wait to show you the finished cake! But since I can’t share the cake with you quite yet, I figured I’d at least share a couple details about it not mentioned in previous episodes of my cake saga.

Mr. Lab: With only single digits left until the big day, I think you’re more than capable of refraining from clicking on the link below! :)

Back when I pitched this idea, many of you were worried that if I didn’t permanently glue to the plates to the candlesticks that we would end up with cake on the table and the floors - or basically anywhere opposite of the place we want the cake (in our tummehs!). I considered the options, and while I still like the idea of being able…

Initially I had absolutely no desire for a cake topper. I figured I’d slap a couple of flowers on there and call it a day. Then came Etsy and its endless supply of ultra-fab cake toppers. Etsy is like the kryptonite to my wedding planning nonchalant-ness. Those darn Etsy vendors, they make everything seem so whimsical and cute and necessary. Needless to say, my cake…

Today is my second day at home from work with bacon flu. Okay, I don’t really have bacon flu, but it’s fun to say bacon! I can’t stop blowing my nose, sneezing, or eating Gardetto’s (skipping the sesame bread sticks, eek). Anyway, I was watching The Office: Pam and Jim’s wedding promo, and I noticed the adorable cake toppers!! It’s vintage, but quirky at the…

Before I do the "big reveal", let’s talk about my aversion to cake. Ever since I was a child, I was never fond of cake. I love the batter, but the spongey, saccharine sweet, iced after-effects? Not so much. It’s just not my thing; it never was and probably never will be. Now, you’re probably wondering what I did for my birthdays, as what’s a birthday without a birthday cake? Enter the one, the only, the cheesecake.