My beautiful bride today had an aunt make her wedding cake. When we first talked about the cake flowers, the cake was to be 3 layers square. Small wedding...small cake. And a pair of lovebirds (hers) was to be on the top, with some green poms to help. We had agreed on a couple of large gerbs, minis, green poms and some galax on a bottom corner with smaller sizes of gerbs on second layer and the green poms on the top.
When I called the venue to ask if the cake was ready, I got a hesitant answer from the manager saying yes, the cake was finished. Got to the venue (the cake was in the walkin refrigerator because the manager was afraid the frosting would melt).
Can we say, the frosting so "slim" that the chocolate was showing through. The shell trimmings didn't cover the gaps between the frosting and the layers and the bottom had no shell trim, just cardboard - on a broken cake pedestal (an early break that had been attempted repair). The cake was uneven, so uneven that when you entered the reception room, it leaned back and when you looked at is straight on, it leaned to the left.
I am so glad I had extra flowers......I ended up placing gerbs and fugis around the bottom of the cake to hide the cardboard...galax ring around the bottom of the pedestal to hide where the pedestal was cracked and chipped. (The lovebirds?? probably a family heirloom? maybe?)
Just before I finally left, we lifted the pedestal and placed two gerb stems UNDER the pedestal so the cake almost looked even.
I do have pics (not sure what color they'll come out when I resize these LOL) but will have to do it in the other laptop that I'm taking on vacation with me..........Will upload the pics later, too tired now...It was a very long time between wedding venue and reception venue. But this bride was a peach (and even handed me a thank you note with a $100 tip)........... I'm praying that everything went well........heat, humidity........crooked cake...........
When I called the venue to ask if the cake was ready, I got a hesitant answer from the manager saying yes, the cake was finished. Got to the venue (the cake was in the walkin refrigerator because the manager was afraid the frosting would melt).
Can we say, the frosting so "slim" that the chocolate was showing through. The shell trimmings didn't cover the gaps between the frosting and the layers and the bottom had no shell trim, just cardboard - on a broken cake pedestal (an early break that had been attempted repair). The cake was uneven, so uneven that when you entered the reception room, it leaned back and when you looked at is straight on, it leaned to the left.
I am so glad I had extra flowers......I ended up placing gerbs and fugis around the bottom of the cake to hide the cardboard...galax ring around the bottom of the pedestal to hide where the pedestal was cracked and chipped. (The lovebirds?? probably a family heirloom? maybe?)
Just before I finally left, we lifted the pedestal and placed two gerb stems UNDER the pedestal so the cake almost looked even.
I do have pics (not sure what color they'll come out when I resize these LOL) but will have to do it in the other laptop that I'm taking on vacation with me..........Will upload the pics later, too tired now...It was a very long time between wedding venue and reception venue. But this bride was a peach (and even handed me a thank you note with a $100 tip)........... I'm praying that everything went well........heat, humidity........crooked cake...........
