Nuestra Adventura!!!

Well, my non-existent readers-  Today's little blog is about my most recent adventure in wedding planning!!  If you haven't already guessed it, planning a wedding SUCKS.  It takes a lot of money, time, money, creativity, people, and money to pull off one of these shin-digs, and did I mention all the money?

One of the smart things to do is plan everything in advance- give yourself at least a year, ladies, to plan every detail.  Hence, why I've started planning for my little March 2012 wedding in June 2011.  Anyway, to my adventure:  the wedding cake...

Pricing on these things is just sooooo overblown, it's ridiculous!!!  Even the consultation to MEET the bakery costs money!!  (In this case, $25.00)  I've been looking to stop by at The Cake Lady for a month.  Today was my appointment, and boy, did it not go very well...

See, she *had* two stores open:  one in Camden (closer to me) and one in Columbia.  Oh Lordy, did I have a little thrill of panic rip thru me when I went into Camden, and the lovely little bakery was GONE!!  Only empty shelves and a 'for lease' sign left.  My mom didn't get it until I explained, yeah, this empty space was my bakery.  *whimper*  The store owner in the next shop said they had been closed for a week...

Since I didn't have my phone, (forgotten at my mom's house) I couldn't find the number, but the sweet shop owner found it, and I made a call.  Turns out, The Cake Lady still had her Columbia shop open, and couldn't get ahold of me for an entire week.  *face palm*  I thought I gave her the right number, hell, I thought I gave her my email too.  I don't know...

So we reschedule for an hour later to just GET to Columbia, and finally make it into our appointment.  Here is where the experience gets a little better.  We show her a picture of a steampunk themed wedding cake, and tell her we want cupcakes instead (which my mother doesn't approve of, but hell it's my wedding).  We get a quote, try out some very interesting flavors, and go on to shopping!  

This is my mom at the cake tasting!!!

So the flavors we tried in order of the best:

1.     The OBAMA!!   yup, you read right...The OBAMA CAKE!!  Chocolate coffee and OMG good!!!
2.     Strawberry-banana
3.     Apple Jelly with Caramel icing AND OMG I just realized what I ate to hurt my stomach!!
4.     Rum & Coke cake - needs way more rum and less coke, please
5.     Banana faust or something like that
6.     Butter cake with buttercream frosting
7.     Lemon yuckiness

She was out of coconut *pout*.  So, we tried cake, had WAY too much sugar in our systems, drank a TON of water, and went on our way.  Brought home some slices for J-Baby, who scarfed down the Obama and strawberry-banana, and still whined that I hadn't fed him real food.  Excuse me, I had dinner with my folks at Applebees!  Score!  The waiter was adorable!

Which reminds me, I finally met face to face with the Catery On Broad people and will FINALLY set an appointment next week to try their food!!  More to follow.