This is long overdue, and for that I’m sorry. This is the first time I’ve actually had a chance to sit down at a computer since Friday really. So I mentioned the wedding cake and how I started it in my last post. Well, here are the results! (And pictures from along the way, of course)
[We made it!!]The weekend was perfect! Amy and I had a fun little road trip to Arkadoo. I showed Amy around town and campus and all the “sights” (which took all of ten minutes). We got to hang out at the Bean’s and eat a “preliminary wedding cake”, which was extra from what I needed for the cake. It was so good! I’m probably not supposed to say that about my own cake, but it really was so tasty. I’m so thankful to Becca, my suitemate, who stayed on campus for May-mester and let us stay in her dorm room, even though she went home this weekend for a wedding and wasn’t there. Staying in Perrin was an experience! We had a lot of fun laughs as Friday went on, and Amy was w-w-w-welcomed to Arkadoo right! We ended the night with one of our favorite things: an Audrey Hepburn movie, Roman Holiday. Lovely!
[Amy's first OBU Campus experience! (I tried to give her a tour like she was a prospective student and convince her to come to Ouachita. It didn't work.)]
[We tried to get a picture of both of us in front of the tiger. When there's only two of us that's a little tricky. So there's the feet of the tiger in our picture. haha]
[If you know the name of this parking lot, that's why she's freaked out. We call it purgatory because it's in between the really good parking lot (which we affectionately call "Heaven" and the terrible one that floods, "Hell") We're a Baptist college, what can we say?]
[The Saturday cake adventure begins!]
Saturday came around, and we had a lot of time to spare in the morning. We sort of broke Becca’s blinds Friday night as we tried to lower the blinds, so I think the blaring sun through the make-shift curtain, a towel, woke both of us up a little earlier than we expected. So we had some nice time to get ready for the day and find some coffee. We both needed it!
[Burger King commercial?]
[This how we felt about making a wedding cake!]
By noon, the cake making began! I was a little nervous about how this was all going to go. It was completely a first in everything I’d ever done. First time stacking a cake, first time to step foot in Fellowship Church of Arkadelphia, first time making a wedding cake, first cake away from my own kitchen, first best friend road trip, first time cutting my own cake, and many others I’m sure. 
[Before]
[I was worried about how to stack the cakes, but it went just like the website said! they were a little lopsided at first, but I fixed it. And, icing can cover up anything, so all my flaws were not noticed.]
[It's so cute and little! Perfect size for the top!]
[Mom told us to be safe and careful and safe and safe (you get the idea), so this is me not being safe standing on a chair to get the top straight. Don't tell Mom! haha]
[It's assembled!]
[Look at all that icing! we didn't use all of it. I had enough left over to ice another cake, the size of the bottom layer.]
[I put little shells around the bottom and second tier. They are easy and dainty. I really like using them as edges because they cover up where the icing meets the counter, or whatever the cake is on. It covers up the imperfections.]
[Amy helped! In more ways than this, but this is her making green icing. She had to mix the color because I realized that I didn't have a green color. Luckily in kindergarten we learn that blue + yellow = green!]
[Little rosebuds all around the cake.]
[The flowers are done! It was tricky getting the design that I saw in my head onto the cake, but I really like how it turned out. The rosebuds are really dainty and just precious.]
[And now for the butterflies!]
[The top. I like how the spiral of rosebuds turned out.]
[The placement of the butterflies]
[The finished product!]
[It looks so little on that table!]
The cake making process went pretty much flawlessly. It was so much fun to make a cake, and it turned out pretty good. There were a few flaws and things I would have done differently, but I think it’s one of those things that only I would notice.
[The groom's cake had not arrived by the time everyone arrived at the reception, so some of the ladies that were in charge of the reception ran and grabbed some cupcakes at Walmart. If you ask them, I made them; they just came with my cake. :) I added butterflies to them so that they would match the cake, plus we had a lot of butterflies left over. It was a nice touch, and there was not a piece of cake left over by the end of the reception. So between the groom's cake, my bride's cake and the cupcakes we had plenty for everyone!]
Richard and Renee’s wedding was beautiful! The rain held off for everyone except Amy and I to get inside the chapel, and we were the only ones completely soaked. The ceremony was great. It was so fun to be there for it! My favorite part was that Richard was beaming the whole time! I couldn’t really see Renee’s face because of the veil, but she looked beautiful and they both were so happy! I wish them every happiness and that God grows them closer to Him and to each other, and that they fall more and more in love every day.
(I don't have pictures of the actual ceremony, but I'm sure there will be plenty on Facebook.)
As the reception rolled around, I had so many compliments on the cake. We waited around for the wedding party to arrive, and it was fun to visit with my friends even though it had only been a week since I last saw them. I was impressed at how many of our youth kids came to the wedding. Since Renee works with the youth with us, she invited the youth group, and it was fun to see a handful of them there.
The groom’s cake arrived and was quite an interesting thing. Renee had told me that Richard’s grandmother was making it and that he wanted it to be an Optimus Prime cake. Well in my mind I saw some cool cake that was the shape of the Transformers figure. Nope. She walked in with a bought cake from Walmart and stuck a Transformers action figure toy on top of it. Not the cake I would have picked, but Richard loved it.
It was precious to watch them cut their cakes. What fun people!
It ended up that I had to cut my own cake. I don't cut cakes. I always avoid it. Even though it's my cake, I still didn't want to cut my cake. I think the real reason was because I simply don't know how to cut a cake unless it's a rectangle, and even then I'm always worried that the sizes are too small or too large. Well we walked into the reception and Sarah Bean and Amy Taylor (Amy's in the picture below) informed me that I had the "honor" of cutting the cake. I really didn't want to, but I figured that I should start sometime. So Amy (my friend Amy. This is confusing!) and I plotted about how to best cut the cake, and I did it! I cut my own cake. I told you this was a day of complete firsts!
[This was Nate's third time to come by and get cake!]
And the roadtrip home begins!
[This is us tired after a long weekend. How lovely...or rough is more like it. haha]
Amy and I headed home after a long successful trip! I did it! I made my first wedding cake! What a fun, successful weekend of firsts!I couldn't have done this weekend without a few people: (It's like I'm giving my acceptance speech). But my Mom was a huge help! Thanks for the kitchen space, the unending support, letting me bounce ideas off you, and helping me think of things that I usually forget. She's the logical side of my brain! Dad and Brady, thanks for testing my preliminary cake (that wasn't that great). I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm also glad that the cake I made with the extra icing was better than that first cake. Amy, thanks for going with me! It would have been a nightmare without you! Plus it was way more fun with you next to me in the car! Wilton was a huge help. If you ever want to know anything about cakes or parties or anything, Wilton has tons of information on their website. It was so fun to do the research behind this cake. Plus it was the Wilton classes that first got me started on cakes. Thanks Renee for letting me make this cake. Thank you, Bean family for testing my extra cake and letting us hang out! (ok I'm done with the acceptance speech now. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but you know who you are and I thank you.) :)
Next step: opening my own shop! Haha just kidding. Maybe way down the line in the future. We’ll see what God has in store. In the meantime, I’m just going to enjoy college, hanging out with my family and friends, hanging out with some youth kids, and making cakes every now and then just for fun. Enjoying where God has me at this moment! :-)
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