let them eat cake!

I didn't want a wedding cake. I don't eat the stuff. When we had first talked about the wedding, Al agreed that we didn't need one. And then he forgot he agreed. And wanted one. So we're getting cake. (Happy, Kim? I know you were disappointed with that one. :) )

This whole idea of him wanting cake has just been a hassle for me. I decided to go with Ryan & Rachel's cake people, Back Home Bakery, because Al said he liked the cake at their wedding. But they don't do things like ordinary bakeries where you make an appointment, taste cake, choose one, then put down a deposit and (possibly) discuss the way it's going to look. No. They decided to make it "convenient" for you. You pick some types of cake you want to eat; they make cupcakes; you pick them up, bring them home, and taste them at your "convenience"; you go back to the bakery, tell them your flavor, and put down a deposit. Who knows when you discuss what the thing is actually going to look like. And all of this "convenience" isn't really a convenience for someone who lives out of state and can only be there every so often. I know I'm sounding bitter right now (tired and really needing to start work on that short paper so I'm not up all night--again). But it gets better.

We ended up getting our cupcakes and eating them in the hotel the weekend of Dennis and Cathy's wedding. We had no other time to do it. I hoped to set up an appointment with them the next time I was in town--for Beth's birthday--but ended up not being able to do so. I partially didn't want to, because I thought, Hey, if I have to have cake at my wedding, I might as well have angel food cake in addition to a wedding cake, since angel food is really the only kind I like. But every time I talked to the woman and mentioned that possibility, she became utterly confused. She thought I wanted angel food cake as the wedding cake (no matter how many times I told her I just wanted it on the side, as a separate cake) and ended up giving us an angel food cake cupcake with dulce frosting on it. !!??? Who ever heard of frosting on angel food cake? I didn't want to deal with that again. Really, how hard can it be to understand that I want my own, separate cake at the wedding? Anyway, I asked Al to go in there earlier this week and put a deposit down on a small, two-tier cake, which he did. Because I finally realized (duh) that the cake Al actually ate at Ryan & Rachel's wedding was from Costco. We're going to end up getting the majority of the cake from there.

So that's how it ended up. Al went to the bakery on Tuesday and told her we want a cake that will feed 20-30 people and ended up putting down a $25 deposit (the cake will only cost about $80). He couldn't remember what flavor he wanted (chocolate with fudge filling and buttercream frosting), which just shows how bad his memory is--he tasted the cake, I reminded him of the flavors, and (duh) he always tells me he only likes chocolate cake. He has to call them back to tell them the flavor. And I have to sometime, somehow, figure out what kind of cake to get from Costco and how to order it. (Help, Rachel!) I want to decide on the invitations before I even attempt to figure out what the cake will look like. And I have given up on having angel food cake at my wedding. I just won't eat any of the wedding cake. Let the rest of them eat cake!


The pic: Ryan & Rachel, since I mention them so many times in this post. Hi, guys!