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?

Feeling Better :)

So I've had a few days to get over loosing my chief bridesmaid and I'm feeling a whole lot better about things. It's been such a busy week and so much has happened wedding wise!

On Tuesday I went to have my boudoir photo shoot that I won. I have to say I was quite nervous but the girls at For Your Eyes Only Portraits were amazing and I would thoroughly recommend them if you are thinking about having something like this done. I had to do my make-up as if I was going on a night out and take a variety of items with me like jewellery, heels, boots, underwear and negligee. When I got there I was whisked into the make-up room and one of their make-up artists then made me 'camera ready' by adding more make-up to what I had done myself. I was then taken in to the studio where I had to lay out all of my items and the photographer went through what she was going to ask me to do. I was in there for about an hour and she put me in all different poses and in all of the different things that I brought. I could hardly move the next day my muscles ached so much! The idea was that they got you looking your absolute best by the angle they shot you at and the position you were in so there was a lot of back arching to stretch the stomach flat and things like that. It really did work as the photos were amazing, I barely recognise myself! I guess it's just so different to see myself in that context though. I get one free picture from the shoot and it has been really difficult to chose but hopefully my fiancé will love it and I think it will make a great grooms gift!

On Wednesday I finally ordered my wedding dress but I'm going to save all the details of this for my next post as I think it deserves one to itself! I also won tickets to the Luxury Wedding Show in London on 23rd October which I'm super excited about! I doubt I'll be able to afford anything there but it will be nice to go and I'm taking my Mom so it will be a nice day out for us.

Today my fiancé and I have been to a local wedding show which has been very productive. I wanted to go to see a lady whose cakes I have been admiring for a while. What really attracted me to her were her flavours; lemon drizzle with limoncello buttercream, chocolate orange with cointreau swirl, cherry and amaretto are a few examples! We got to try the lemon and a chocolate and cherry cake with chocolate and rum frosting and they were absolutely delicious! I know it's probably all kinds of wrong to have alcohol infused cakes but we both love this idea so it works well that we are only having adults at the wedding! Here are a few examples of her work:

Elite Cake Designs

I think it's going to be really hard to chose a design, I love the alternate hearts and stripes, think this is really fun but I also love the simplicity of the cake decorated with ribbons and diamantés. We've booked an appointment for a cake tasting in October, can't wait!

We also might have found a videographer and a florist at the fair too! The videographer was offering a 25% discount and her prices seemed very reasonable so we are waiting for more information from her and the florist. Feels like everything is coming together slowly!

So quite a productive week which is good as we are going on vacation for two weeks on Tuesday so will be having a break from all the planning. Hope you are having a good weekend!

Afternoon Tea Cake

Just a quick post to show you lemon and blueberry ring cake I made for afternoon tea with my Mom, Dad, Aunt and Uncle. The pink was perhaps a little bright but it all tasted good!

Beautiful Cake!

I've just been looking through some inspiration photos at The Knot, they have such an amazing range of photographs and allow you to narrow your search by colour. I'm thinking of purple and silver as my theme and was able to go through all their photos that contained these colours - excellent! I found this gorgeous cake in the process and had to share...

Photo: Simone & Martin, Cake: Sam Godfrey/Perfect Endings via The Knot