It's official. I have officially decided that I would much rather deal with any and all crap that I may get from my mother about the wedding than put up with the crap at school. More to the point, I have realized that there are people who you will have to explain obvious things to everywhere, and that it is much more preferable to deal with wedding crap than school crap.
Reason 1: I will get to enjoy my wedding. True, I will also enjoy the benefits of my graduate education, but the wedding will be a much more "realized" enjoyment. The culmination of months of planning will be realized in 8 hours of emotional, frenzied enjoyment. There will also be a graduation ceremony, but the extra bucks don't all roll in at once.
Reason 2: I love my parents. Despite the fact that I may get frustrated with my parents (particularly my mom) while we are planning the wedding, we have a strong relationship, and no matter what happens, we'll always be there for each other. The same is not so for my classmates. Some of them are jerks, some are not, but are pains to work with, and I will not mind if I don't talk to some of them after graduation.
All in all, it sounds as if I will feel much more gratified if I drop out of school and just plan my wedding. Riiight.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Informal Cake Tasting
My fiance and I were at the Central Market yesterday, so I pulled a five-year old move and stood in front of the cake case and gave him my best pitiful expression.
Out of nowhere, he suggested that we get a slice of cake to taste it. Conveniently, the store sells cake by the slice. They only had three flavors out in the case, so we decided to get the white cake with buttercream icing. Sooooooooooooo good. Soooooooooooooo good.
The cake tasted amazing. It was light and soft, but very dense, just like I like it. The icing was buttercream perfection. Thin enough to not be a solid chunk of icing on the cake, but thick enough to not be called runny. The favor of the icing was vanilla, but I think there was a touch of citrus to give it an edge. Enough salivating for now.
Out of nowhere, he suggested that we get a slice of cake to taste it. Conveniently, the store sells cake by the slice. They only had three flavors out in the case, so we decided to get the white cake with buttercream icing. Sooooooooooooo good. Soooooooooooooo good.
The cake tasted amazing. It was light and soft, but very dense, just like I like it. The icing was buttercream perfection. Thin enough to not be a solid chunk of icing on the cake, but thick enough to not be called runny. The favor of the icing was vanilla, but I think there was a touch of citrus to give it an edge. Enough salivating for now.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Cake, The Cake
Shortly after we went to the horrible bakery that almost served us moldy cake, my sister went to dinner with my parents and said she had several ideas on where else to get a cake. I'm not sure why she didn't tell em about them sooner, but at least I know now.
Her first thought was that there is a woman at her office who makes wedding cakes. She's done many out of the office, and most recently, for a daughter of one of the partners. Since this dinner, my sister asked her how much a cake like the one I want would cost, and she said it would be about half of what moldy bakery would charge. She offered to set up a tasting the next time we were in town. The only problem I would see is with our reception site, which has already proven to be a bit "difficult." I would hate to send in my vendor list only to have the wonderful ladies at the reception site tell me that we couldn't use the woman as a baker two months before the wedding.
The other idea was to use Central Market as a baker, which is a high end grocery store that makes delicious prepared food and desserts. I talked to a friend of ours and she said that they have delicious cakes, and weren't that expensive. I'm somewhat relieved, because I had dismissed using a grocery store as a baker, because I really dislike the sugary icing that most grocery stores put on their cakes. The decorations that most grocery stores showcase are pretty basic or, at least, not very "stylish," like a basket weave, which just wouldn't go with the overall tone of the wedding.
Her first thought was that there is a woman at her office who makes wedding cakes. She's done many out of the office, and most recently, for a daughter of one of the partners. Since this dinner, my sister asked her how much a cake like the one I want would cost, and she said it would be about half of what moldy bakery would charge. She offered to set up a tasting the next time we were in town. The only problem I would see is with our reception site, which has already proven to be a bit "difficult." I would hate to send in my vendor list only to have the wonderful ladies at the reception site tell me that we couldn't use the woman as a baker two months before the wedding.
The other idea was to use Central Market as a baker, which is a high end grocery store that makes delicious prepared food and desserts. I talked to a friend of ours and she said that they have delicious cakes, and weren't that expensive. I'm somewhat relieved, because I had dismissed using a grocery store as a baker, because I really dislike the sugary icing that most grocery stores put on their cakes. The decorations that most grocery stores showcase are pretty basic or, at least, not very "stylish," like a basket weave, which just wouldn't go with the overall tone of the wedding.
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