We Have Cake!

Hello lovelies, I'm neglecting my blogging I know but not much is happening in my weddingverse at the moment as we are trying to move house and the wedding has taken a bit of a hit in the priorities list! I have however booked our engagement shoot for November 22nd and am really excited about it. I say engagement shoot but it's really just a test shoot with our photographer which is included in our package but I'm hoping to use one of the photos for our save the dates. Fingers crossed the weather is ok as I'm hoping to have it outside!

We have also chosen our cake! I have to say this was the part of the wedding planning that I was looking forward to the most, I couldn't wait to go cake tasting and boy I wasn't disappointed! Caryn at Elite Cake Designs presented us with the most wonderful array of cakes to try, she specialises in alcohol infused flavours and wow were they amazing! I had had a look at some of her designs beforehand and decided that I wanted to draw out what I had in mind for our cake to see if she could create something along the same lines. She loved my design which I was so happy about and is going to make it for our big day!

This was one of her designs that I really liked:

Elite Cake Designs

And this is my design based on the above:

I knew I wanted a five tier cake and so mine is just an extension of the one above except the ribbon will be purple and I asked her if she would copy the design that is on my invitations on to three layers of the cake. We are going to have the same diamanté trim that is round the bottom of each tier and our initials on the top in diamanté, something like this:

Surbiton Sugarcraft

These are the thank you notes that match my invitations to get an idea of the design:

These are the flavours we are having:

Top tier: cherry and almond sponge with amaretto buttercream

Second tier: coffee and walnut sponge with baileys buttercream

Third tier: Strawberry and champagne sponge with strawberry buttercream

Fourth tier: Lemon sponge with lemon curd and limoncello buttercream

Bottom tier: Death by chocolate sponge with cherry compote and kirsch buttercream

I sooooooo can't wait to see it! It's a good thing we are having an all adult wedding! What's been/was your favourite part of planning?