

Because I want our cake to match our whole themed wedding, I thought it would be easier if I designed it rather than try explaining everything to our baker over email or phone. Depending on how many slices we will get, it might be a 3 tier or 4 tier cake.After looking at all the designs I liked, this is what I came up with: (for a 3 tier cake)
Even though we asked a friend to bake our wedding cake for us, we didn’t miss out on a cake tasting! Alex, our baker extraordinaire, was gracious enough to bake us FOUR cakes this weekend for us to sample! She had previously emailed a few ideas for cake flavors, we selected a couple, and she made 2 extra for us to try!
Here’s what we sampled:
On small plate: chocolate with hazelnut mousse and marshmallow frosting. On large plate, clockwise starting on the top: Lemon with white chocolate frosting and raspberry filling, Fiddler on the Roof (not sure how to describe this one - it’s a yellow cake with cocoa and sour cream and almond extract) with chocolate marshmallow frosting, and half lemon, half white layered cake with almond butter frosting and raspberry filling.

I have to admit, my driving motivation in wanting to be a “bee” was to score all your opinions on any unconventional ideas I could dream up. Surprisingly, the handful of things I’d wanted opinions on, I haven’t posted about yet! So hopefully you guys can help me out on the cake front. 
Even for the plainest of the plain cakes I had wanted - with impeccable fondant and without the painstakingly handmade edible flower, it would run me $7+ per slice… and we all know that fondant tastes terrible. After I got over the diy idea, I entertained the idea of having a fake tiered cake, and then serving much tastier sheet cake, at less than $2 per slice. Ever-an-anti-buttercream-person, I found I could get a whip cream filled cake (although custard was also an option, but I don’t know if I’m game for that).
Everyone and their mom loves Ann Wood’s cake toppers. Of course, these bad boys are so hot, she’s not even taking orders since she’s so backlogged. Maybe it’s for the best since this cake topper isn’t really in our budget.
While looking for images of cake ideas, I came to the realization that I like almost everything. You’d think that would make it easy on me, but try to mesh everything together and it’d look horrible.
I know I want a fondant cake because I think it looks stunning. I’m aware that not many people like fondant, but luckily my baker adds flavor to the fondant. As for the colors I will most likely go with brown, pink and ivory, or maybe just brown and ivory. I haven’t even started to think about the rest of the cake, but I think it’s time now with the wedding less than 2 months away.
Here are some of the images I’ve collected throughout the wedding process:

I heart all sorts of bows and not to mention cute dots - source
I love contrasting colors - source
This cake is not what I, personally, am looking for in a wedding cake….. but I had to share it with the hive because it’s just so stinkin’ adorable!
Photo found here; cake by Gateaux, Inc.
Who is this woman, and why am I not married to her??? SERIOUSLY.
Mistress Zalita of the Magical Kingdom of Cuppy-Cake has stolen my heart, and broken it into a thousand crystalline fragments. There’s nothing left.
My heart is racing like I’ve just met Johnny Depp and he just said something profoundly witty and intimate. Like, “hello.”
I can’t breathe.
…..I can’t liiiiiiiiivvvvvvve
if living is without youuuuuuu (Zalita)
I can’t giiiiivvvvve
I can’t give any mooooorrrre….
Even though we have a dessert included in our 5 course meal, I’ve always wanted to have a wedding cake and the extra dessert wasn’t going to stop me. Just more sugar for my buttocks - for better or worse right? What’s great though, is that Mr. Flamingo will have his ultimate favorite dessert at the end of our meal, and I will have a beautiful wedding cake. It’s a win win situation.
We decided to hire Sophie of Les Fantaisies de Sophie. She is really talented and not to mention extremely sweet. Sadly, ten years ago her daughter Catherine was born with a severe handicap and Sophie (our baker) decided to change her career choice to something which allowed her to be with her daughter and give her the attention she deserves. Luckily for us, she became a baker and honestly not only did her story touch me, but her positivity and outlook on life blew me away - we hired her on the spot.

Here are some shots of our delish wedding cake, inspired by Mrs. Bell Pepper’s (if not altogether stolen really):

Mr. Cherry Pie and I have been struggling with what to do about a wedding cake and all because of our desserty namesake.
The problem is that neither of us are huge fans of wedding cake. I mean, we enjoy cake, but not any more than other desserts, and we can’t think of a wedding cake that we’ve ever enjoyed that much. If there’s one thing that Mr. Cherry Pie loves, however, it’s… cherry pie.