Mmm, cake!

When we started planning our wedding I wasn’t really sure that we would need a wedding cake. I had thought that we would just have friends and family bake a cake each and then offer that up throughout the night. When we were told that was against the catering rules for the venue we thought that if we had a cheese mountain then that would feed guests throughout the evening (rather than laying on a second round of food two hours after the main dinner), and it would look a bit like a cake, so that would kill two birds with one stone.

            Then I spoke to Erin, and that was something of a game-changer. Erin is officially Queen of the Cakes. She makes these incredibly baked, really tasty and stunningly decorated concoctions for friends’ birthdays and family celebrations, and following a couple of chats with her she amazingly offered to make a cake for our wedding! What an incredible thing!

            Since this announcement, the cake has been one of the most exciting things to think about. For most our of planning I feel like we’re holding off until July to really get started, but for the cake, as it needs planning, thinking about and a bit of practising for Erin, we’re allowed to think about it now, and it’s so exciting!     

Erin has even taken some classes to work on techniques that will probably be involved in the final version – look at these incredible flowers that she whipped up yesterday while suffering from a killer hangover! If these are her hung-over flowers I cannot imagine how beautiful and utterly perfect her sober versions will be!