mmmm cake

There are four facts that you need to know:

1. I like cake. A lot.

2. I am allergic to wheat. A couple of years ago completely by accident I discovered this fact. I could go into the details but it's a fairly long, boring and irrelevant story so I will spare you the details of how I came to that conclusion.

3. Ian is allergic to wheat and a myriad of other things. This is another long and slightly more relevant but equally boring story so, again I will spare you the details.

4. Ian likes cake. A lot.

Keeping these things in mind think about one very important feature of a wedding. The Cake.

When Ian and I first go engaged we established one fact - that we wanted a wedding cake that not only looked pretty but that we could eat as well.

So with these facts in mind think about the how difficult it would be to find a wedding cake that we could eat. The first challenge was a recipe that we could eat - that was Janice's arena and she managed to come up with a recipe that Ian can eat that tastes pretty darn good (and it's actually really easy to make too). But since she is here we can't get her to make it for the day of so the next step was finding someone on the mainland who could make our recipe and make the cake look great.

We hunted and hunted but many bakeries were not set up to do gluten free, we did find one but the decorating that she did was really, sloppy. It may have been one of my more "bridezilla" moments but Ian did agree with me. Finally about a month ago we found someone who was willing to work with us and could do the cake. She was a "cake designer" and it was going to cost a fortune but we needed a cake. It seems that these days our solution to every problem is "throw money at it"

We were going back and forth with the baker hashing out a design and a plan and then suddenly Ian gets an email that she took another wedding that day and we were "bumped". *&@#$

So we are less than 4 months away and still don't have a cake, how does everyone feel about wedding flan?

With this ring

I meant to post this many moons ago and I apologize for the delay...

You have all (hopefully) seen the pics of my ring. It is fabulous and I love it.

However, I was less impressed when I discovered that I was going to need a custom wedding band. Now before you start calling me a psychotic Bridezilla, I tried to find a stock ring that would fit and NOTHING did. I really mean nothing. Every ring I put on resulted in a large gap between the engagement ring and wedding band that looked down right ridiculous. Seriously, you can even ask Ian.

So we went to see Roberta and as usual she was amazing and put together a design of exactly what I wanted. Which was something simple that fit with my ring, was white gold and didn't look silly. A tall order I know...

A little while later Roberta called me and said that the ring design was ready and we should come by and make sure that it was what we wanted. Since this ring design was on a computer screen and not terribly tangible I was having difficulty "seeing" it. To rectify this problem Ian and I went to the mall to try on a few things that were similar to what Roberta had put together. Turns out this was a bad plan because suddenly I went from wanting a simple plain band to wanting the *sparkle sparkle* of diamonds. Oops.

After we got the price quote on the ring we quickly discovered that the *sparkle sparkle* wasn't going to happen. It was kind of a decision between eating and diamonds, and I really like food. Oh well! That's life - we made the decision that diamonds would be added later for special occasions like kids or anniversaries or "YAY we actually have disposable income" days. So it's all good.

One of the fun things about this process was that I had to give my engagement ring to Roberta for about a month so that the wedding band could be fit directly into the engagement ring. So the month of January (and part of February) I was without my ring. This didn't make Jen happy. So when I got the call that I could pick up my wedding band and my engagement ring I got down the Barclay's as fast as I could. It was totally worth the wait and my ring is perfect!

Okay - lets face it - I'm guessing that maybe 3 people (Hi mom!) have actually taken the time to read this and the rest of you really just want to see pictures. So here you go. It took a while to figure out how to get these so I hope you enjoy them!

10 Things

One week ago marked the one year date of the day that Ian proposed to me. It was a pretty slow day on our part but it got me thinking about my year as the "Bride to-be". It has been a really wonderful year filled with plans and a whole lot of excitement. I have also learned a lot during the past twelve months. I think now would be a good time to share some of those things with you.

1. There a lot of wedding blogs out there. Some good. Some not so good.

2. Registering for gifts is one of the most fun and useful things a person can do. It is now my belief that everyone should do it for all gift giving occasions.

3. It's amazing what a person can spend on bridal magazines. I think I have a problem...

4. Trying to lose weight sucks

5. If you jump up and down and have a tantrum 3 year old style, it's amazing what you can get your fiancé to agree to. (I love you honey!)

6. Nothing is more entertaining than"Rich Bride Poor Bride". What do you mean you don't agree with me?

7. Everyone has a little "Bridezilla" in them, even people who aren't getting married. I'm lookin' at the bridesmaids who didn't want to wear the lime green mu-mu's.

8. It is always dangerous to keep looking after decisions have been made. Always.

9. Watching "Sex and the City" while blogging is not productive.

10. Your true friends really would wear a lime green mu-mu if you asked them to. (Seriously, they offered.)