Sick, Busy and Slack

Long time, no blog! 

As the title suggests, this is because I have been sick, busy and slack. 

That is not to say that all wedding plans and preps have hand-braked to a halt, rather my nattering about them has. 

So, forgive me followers, since I last blogged I have:

- Continued to chase pricing for flowers. My illusion of cheap flowers has been shattered, although I am at peace with my floral decisions now, and accept that these choices come at a cost. The tight-arse in me is cringing. The bride in me is just making it happen.

- Received the flower girl dress, which I ordered off ebay and paid less than $40. I am so in love with it, but it will need to be taken in a bit and I am eager to have the claw set rhinestones replaced with non claw set strings of bling to save my gorgeous step-daughter's hair being caught all day and night. Absolute bargain, and it is absolutely magical. Also purchased tiara for said gorgeous step-daughter. Too much cuteness! 

- Have designed 'thank you' notes, so that I can send these as soon after the wedding as possible. I like gratitude, I like thank yous. These coordinate with the invitations and printed notices for the wedding.  All of this has been done through Photoshop, and I am absolutely stoked with how they look and how much they have cost. 

- Met with the cake man. He is awesome. I am super excited about his ideas, and eating lots of yummy, yummy cake. 

- Finished painting my wooden cake topper family. Rather than just having the bride and groom, we have a small wooden figure for the bride and groom (Wonder Woman and the Flash - obviously), plus all of the kids. I have one kidlet who wanted to be visually represented as the Human Torch, another who wanted to be represented as a pig man, and the third tiny human who is a mermaid.  I am BURSTING to show more pics, but you will have to settle for this one for now...

- I have created a timeline to get an idea of when to purchase the suits for the boys, and when to get the clothing for the kids altered, when to get ring put in for cleaning, etc, etc. I like the visual of seeing it all out in chronological order, but it did make me realise there are not too many weekends left before the big day. Eeeeeiiiikkkk!!! I am so freaking excited! :) 

- Been shopping at Pumpkin Patch online. I am obsessed with baby clothes! I have so many gorgeous friends who are pregnant or who have had bubs and I cannot resist tiny clothes! This is where the slack bit comes in...wedding stuff is increasingly taking a back seat to my adoration of tiny humans and round bellies. Focus Moo. Focus!

-  Purchased my wedding day scent. It was cheap at Chemist Warehouse, but it smells divine! It is taking all of my strength to not put it on and smell myself all day. I will not name it, because I do not want to be judged right now. :)

- Checked out gifts for our witnesses. Still undecided as to if we go for traditional, or something a bit 'out there'. 

- Signed up for WedPics. I love this concept! It allows your guests to upload their pics from your wedding, where everyone can view them. A bit like your own lil Instagram for your wedding. 

So I have been busy, not just slack!  I will say some Hail Marys and try really, really hard to blog regularly. Cross my heart :) 

Let them eat cake!

When we first started the whole wedding planning thing, we had thrown around the idea of having a Cold Rock ice cream cake as our wedding cake. Firstly, I have long enjoyed the supermarket freezer section ice cream cakes that were a cornerstone to the Maccas birthday party, and liked the fun element of having a chocolate chip cookie dough flavoured ice cream wedding cake. Secondly, many of our dates have ended with a Cold Rock cup and a walk along Terrigal Beach, so it was a nice touch.  

However, in the same way as there are people who do not enjoy pizza as much as The Flash and I, there are also people who do not share our affection for ice cream and in turn ice cream cake. 

So The Flash has engaged a family friend who is an AMAZING cake maker, to come up with a Wonder Woman and The Flash type of cake. He made this fantastic Bash Car cake for my father-in-law's 70th birthday last year.  

Originally, we were looking at two separate cakes, one for each superhero. Just a square or circular cake, with the Wonder Woman and The Flash symbol on top. As has been the theme of the wedding, nothing too fancy, just tasty, tasty cake and lots of it. 

One of the most important elements of the cake, the flavour was hotly debated. While we felt a sense of obligation to have two separate flavours of cake, we have decided that neither of us want to be represented in cake by anything other than chocolate mud cake. I do not want my family and friends to judge me, thinking that I have actively sought to have a vanilla cake! Chocolate is who I am! :) So chocolate X2 is on the menu. 

Secondary to the flavour, is what the cake looks like. 

A google search of Wonder Woman cakes returned some awesome images. 

Like this one from Sweet Sunshine:

And this one on Techrony:

On The Flash side of things, I found these: 

This one is from Pinterest, I could not find the image originator:

And this one from Erica Gomez Cakes:

The Flash has been working with our cake maker, and he in turn has been inspired by some half and half, two tiered creations which combine the two, like this one from Bake A Wish on Flickr:

At the end of the day, as long as we have cake, we are happy! We trust him and feel excited to see what he comes up with!  Watch this space for the final wedding cake!