Our Wedding - The Cake

Moving on to the most talked about part of the night. The cake! I swear I've seen more pictures of the cake than of either of us that day :)

It was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I fell in love with it at the cake tasting but I only got one bite that night unfortunately. I never made it back to my seat after the cake tasting. A little advice for any brides-to-be...eat as much as possible during your tastings because there's no guarantee that you'll get a chance to eat on your wedding day!

Here she is...Miss America, the superstar of the night

We cut the cake to Just Like Heaven by The Cure. One of our all time favorite songs.

We played nice and didn't take the advice of our good friend Natalie who yelled for us to "Shove it in her face! The both of u!" :)

I've had numerous requests friends to dig into the top layer of the cake which we're saving for our first anniversary. And I have to admit that I'm extremely tempted. I've been dreaming about it since the cake tasting back and June and there's no guarantee that it will taste the same a year from now.

I'm curious how many people actually save the top layer of the cake until the 1 year mark. Are you planning on it? Do you think it's bad luck to dig in early? I'd love to hear what you all think.

Next up: The grand finale...the cookie table!

All images: Daniel Krieger

Just Like Heaven

I know that I've been horrible lately about posting. It's taking me longer than expected to get back into the swing of things. And work is a bit crazy because we had our annual beauty industry trade show this week, of course the first week I'm back. Anyway, no complaints, I just wanted to let you know that I promise to be back soon filling you in on all the details. I'm working on compiling and editing all of the photos that people took and I'm also trying to work on the video.

For now I wanted to share with you a picture of us during the cake cutting. Everyone loooooved our cake. It was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Not normally my cup of tea, but it was the hands down winner at our tasting and I have had quite a few people begging me to dig into the top layer of cake that I am keeping safely tucked away in my freezer until our one year anniversary :)

Oh and we played the Cure Just Like Heaven during the cake cutting. One of our all time favorite songs.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Have Your Cake & Eat Your Topper!

I so wish I needed cake toppers, but I don't because my cake is topped with yummy flowers. I'm not gonna complain because it's nice to not to have to worry about something but how perfect would these chocolate ones be if I did?!?!

The chocolates come in modern brides, classic romantic brides, grooms & bride & groom and range in price from $12.50-$17.50. You can even customize flowers and clothing for an additional charge. Available at Martine's Chocolates.

I Need A Staycation!

Or at least a few days off from work/life to dedicate to wedding planning. Our apartment looks like a bomb went off right dead smack in the center of it. We have shower gifts, some attendant gifts and reception items scattered everywhere! We even have a stack of boxes that runs the entire height of the wall and up and over our dining room hutch. I can't think anymore. I always used to watch wedding shows and see how that happened to people but I never thought that we'd actually be those people...

It's an exciting time but there's just too much to do. We're getting married this Saturday in Connecticut and we still have to finalize our vows. Sprinkle in a few other tasks - makeup trial Thursday night, cake tasting Friday afternoon, finalizing the guest list and laundry, packing for CT and our nephews high school graduation tomorrow and there's just no time for anything else. We have to get our shower thank yous out. Where's the time for that?

It amazes me how every other girl manages to get it all done. It should be easier for us...we're two girls and we have awesome planners. I guess I just need to take a deep breath and run on adrenaline.

Image: found here

T-Minus 3 Months!

Wow what a weekend! We had some amazing weather here and had a ton of fun dining al fresco and celebrating Nat's bday and my cousin's bridal luncheon. And on top of all the fun we even managed to accomplish a few wedding tasks.

Saturday was my hair trial and I was thrilled with the results! Sarah, my amazing stylist over at Parlor, created the exact look I was envisioning. I actually started to well up! I was so happy!!! I didn't even do that when I tried on my dress a few weeks ago...is that a bad sign about the dress??? I'm thinking that maybe I should try to recreate the look before I go for my fitting in July so I can see hair & dress together to get a more accurate picture of what it will look like on the big day. I'm sure I'll love my dress with the right hair. Finger's crossed....

It's still TBD how my hair will be clipped back because I didn't have the chiffon flowers yet. I ordered them from Oh My Deer this weekend. I can't wait to get them!

After the hair trial we went on over to VeKa, a bridal shop in Nolita, and bought Jen her hairpiece. I don't have a picture of it to post right now but I will soon. Her hair trial is this coming Saturday so I'll post some pix next Monday.

Overall it feels like we're making some more progress. We decided today to start Operation "This is SERIOUS 52" aka wedding boot camp. Jen coined the term and came up with the idea. Basically we have 13 weeks left until the big day so we need to get 52 workouts in before then, 4 times a week. We really super determined now. My sister gave me her Perfect Pushup yesterday (she used if before her wedding and the girl had GUNS!) and Nat sent on over the Women's Health Belly Off Club Workout today. Loving everyone for all the support and great ideas!

So here's what we have on tap for this week...

• Sign off on the final proof for the invitations which we're expecting sometime today or tomorrow
• Jen's hair trial Saturday
• Make an appointment for a cake tasting...yummm! A little cake won't kill us, right? :)
• And I have to get on over to M&J and some other stores the finally solve the shoe problem.
• Oh and we still don't have a computer...it's at Apple for repair. I fear that the hard drive is corrupted which is an absolute disaster. I have a ton of wedding stuff on there that wasn't backed up and worst of all I think there are pictures of Antoinette that we don't have anywhere else. I'm praying that someone can recover that at least!

Hope you all had a great weekend and have a happy Monday!