CAKE MANIA!!!

Carlie and I were talking about how we could save some money on our wedding.  We have been looking through all of the wedding magazines and online to get the feel of what things we want and how much its going to cost us.  We came across some cake designs and found a few that we like.  When we started pricing the cakes the prices were anywhere from $600 to $1000.  We realized we had nowhere near that much money to spend on cake.  Carlie then started feeling bad because she really wanted this cake.  We then started talking to her family to see if there was any way we were going to be able to get the cake she wanted.  Her mom and sister started talking about how easy it looked to make.  Carlie didn’t feel so good about it at first, because her mom has attempted making a wedding cake before; and failed horribly.  Frances and Heather then decided to take some cake decorating classes. They have been taking them for the past few months; every Monday faithfully.  For there final project they had to make a two tier cake.  Frances decide to attempt to make Carlies dream wedding cake (minus a tier). Last night we spent a few hours at Heathers cutting fondant flowers, had painting each flower with a shimmer, and inserting sugar pearls into each individual flower (400 to be exact)!  This morning Carlie was so ecstatic and could hardly wait to see that darn cake, that she went to the class to see how things were going. She was so surprised when she walked through the door, because the cake was better than she had pictured it to be!  Absolutely beautiful. Mom says “Damn straight”.  Other then that life is great.

Here are a few of Frans and Heathers first cakes.

This one is the first time with fondant.

 

 Here we are working on the flowers for the wedding cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Frances and Heather. We will save at least $500 on our wedding cake.