Wedding Cake

One of the item on the checklist for this month is "decide on wedding cake".  By the way, there are 210 tasks in this entire planning process.  Funny that one of the item on the list is "to come up with a list".  Since the list was from a wedding planning book, we weren't even sure how to decide on a cake.  When in doubt, ask Google!  Once again, Google didn't disappoint me.  And guess what, all the articles seemed to imply wedding cake is important but none said it's one of the most important things.  Yay, I have moved to dealing with tasks in the important category instead of the most important category.  That's a really big relief.

According to my research result, Wedding cakes are a predominantly Western tradition in marriage ceremonies. It is the tradition that a newly married couple stand together, hand on hand, and cut the cake together. This is because cutting the cake is a symbol of unity and togetherness. Cutting the wedding cake together is also another essential marker of the couple's commitment to one another on their special day. This is basically the reason why wedding cakes are still so popular in modern culture.  Knowing the meaning behind wedding cake has motivated me a bit more in choosing a nice cake.

Wedding cake decision was not as complicated as choosing a veil.  It only narrowed down to two determining criteria, appearence and flavor.  Traditionally wedding cakes are white, just like wedding dresses.  However modern days, people sometimes have different colours of cakes to match their wedding theme.  Since I have already decided on all the decoration and flower related items, I thought when it came to "eating" related item I should ask for Bear's input.  The respond I got was essentially, isn't cake just a cake, why do we need to choose a cake.  So I had requested Kike to send me a few examples of cake to show Bear (see pictures).  The first one is nice, but totally not related to our theme, so it's out of the picture.  Bear and I are sometimes a bit traditional, so we don't like the weirdly constructed cake in the second picture.  The third one was the only one we both liked.  But it's not super exciting.

I actually had a picture in mind in terms of what I like.  I want something with an uneven white icing surface texture and a big of flower decoration.  So it's kind of like the third picture, but not as "ridgid?  It's hard to describe.  I browsed online for a long time, after looking through all 350 pictures on http://www.brides.com/, I finally found what I liked (see the picture below).  Bear also liked it.  So I emailed Kike this picture and told her that we would like to have the flowers in purple instead.

As for the flavours, here are the possible choices http://www.doyouwed.me/dubrovnik_wedding_cakes.html.  Bear likes chocolate or cheese cake.  I am leaning towards fruit fantasy.   But we will make our final decision when we go to the pastry shop to try out the cake.

Yay, one more task done!