And so I return to tasty blogging. Our wedding venues woes are still bringing us down - we have moved on from having nowhere to get married to having "options" - but, nevertheless, the thought of cake is cheering for all, surely?
I am also thus able to part with the greatest piece of advice I can pass on to any man, ever, wherever: it is a tremendously good idea to accompany your beloved intended to cake shops.
When Vicky and I arrived at the babycakes store to suss out what they could offer us, the proprietor commented how refreshing it was that I was there. It seems that she is usually visited only by individual women brandishing lever-arch files and checklists. What fools! The chaps who decline to visit the store, or simply don't insist on attending hard enough, miss out on being offered, legitimately, all the free cake one could cram into one's gullet. This is the bountiful treat that I experienced one lovely morning.
We had gone into the store with a vague idea of having a tiered cupcake extravaganza instead of a traditional cake what requires slicing (terrible symbolism, especially if you've ever been forced to sit through Picnic at Hanging Rock). Such wishy-washy ideas gave me the perfect excuse to sample just about every single cupcake flavour in stock. Some I even got to eat twice as much of: "Oh, gee, I'm just not too sure which I prefer out of these two... What's that? Why yes, I would like another one of each, thank you!"
Such was the amount of cupcake I gobbled that it is only now, months later, that I can write about the experience with a clear head. Earlier, reminisces would send me all a-tizzy with learned hyperglycemia. What a grand day!
Oh yeah, so, at our wedding guests will be presented with a cascade of sublime delights comprising "Death By Chocolate"* cupcakes, lemon-meringue pies, lime coconut cupcakes and marsbars-flavour macaroons, all topped with a choco-tastic slab upon which our caketoppers can rest.
Oh, and we'll be getting a second cake made for us by the famous Dot of York.
Oh, and then I heard that it was possible to have dinosaur-shaped Partysaurus cakes, so we'll probably get one of those, too.
You guys like cake, right?
Oh, and there'll be a lolly buffet too. What a grand day it'll be!
*Actual death not guaranteed and hopefully unlikely.
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