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June 4, 2006
going to the chapel
There are 10 pieces of wedding cake in our refrigerator.
With october inching closer and closer, i finally got motivated to wrap up the wedding vendors i'd been putting off - rehearsal dinner, cake, and flowers. Since we are having the wedding not in chicago, it has been a bit of a pain to arrange things. okay, not really, but it did give us the excuse to leave the cat and spend a beautiful weekend in wisconsin.
We met with the rehearsal dinner people and got that reserved. I reserved the date for the flowers over the phone (we'll go up in a couple of months to actually pick the flowers). We spent the night in racine, wi, were $100 buck got us the most comfortable bed at the three-star marriot. We tried the happening Japanese hibachi grill in downtown were our meal, instead of traditional miso soup and cucumber salad, came with chicken noodle soup and ice burg lettuce with thousand island dressing. Our steak and veggies were excellent and the grill dude was amusing, so no real complaints.
The cake lady was in Kenosha, which is the bested named town ever. it is also the location of a jelly belly factory. we did not go, much to my sadness. When i made the cake appt, it was just to chat about dates and prices. As we drove from a very large brunch at cracker barrel, we hoped it would not turn out to be the tasting.
We talked shape and design. I am not that bride who knows exactly what she wants when she comes in. i have yet to buy a wedding magazine (though my sister does and looks for stuff for me). i do have a planning book, which is good for when you need to do stuff time-wise. Together ben and i and the example book came up with a good design. We are probably the best couple as we are pretty easy going. All i care about is that the food is yummy and arrives yummy and on time. After we did that we were quite surprise when she handed us a list of the cakes we would be taking home. Hence the 10 slices of cakes in our fridge. It really was the perfect situation as we were not in the mood to taste and now we don't have to go back up there for a tasting. We had out own tasting in our kitchen at home. It was awesome. We have it all chosen. Everything is done for now. Quite happy.
Posted by christina at June 4, 2006 7:03 PM
Comments
Fun. ;)
Posted by: Jennifer at June 5, 2006 12:05 AM
So what kind of cake did you choose? :)
Posted by: Sarah at June 5, 2006 10:42 AM
You are my kind of girl, with the clock counting down to the PhD defense and not the wedding and no Bridezilla obsessing over planning :) I think cake tasting has got to be the best part of wedding planning!!
Posted by: Becca at June 5, 2006 6:34 PM