<p>I got a cake from the “Ace of Cakes” shop for my D’s Sweet 16 party. This was before they were made famous on The Food Network. It was beautiful and tasty. She chose a layer of vanilla and a layer of raspberry. I missed the traditional icing but there was icing between the layers. The cake was the highlight of the party but still very ordinary compared to the sculptures they do on the show.</p>
<p>bonniemom, how about the second halves of all the sentences you quote? Don’t buy a boat WHEN you can hardly pay your mortgage. Don’t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas WHEN you’re trying to save for college. The issue isn’t spending, the issue is spending for extras, generally by taking on more consumer debt, when the basics haven’t been covered. </p>
<p>Back to the wedding. I’m finding the general etiquette discussion about the menu when the bride and/or groom are vegetarian or vegan fascinating. I wonder what the discussion with the Clinton wedding was on this issue?</p>
<p>Bonniemom, My advice is that the thread still concerns the wedding and not politics and for those who wish to discuss politically related ramifications of this wedding, to start a thread in the Politics Forum on that topic as the Parent Cafe doesn’t allow for political discussions and it would be a shame to turn an existing thread into a political discussion and have it moved to the Pol Forum where many who have chosen to participate here, including myself, would not opt to visit and post as readily. </p>
<p>I haven’t noticed name calling but if you observe that, yes, you can report a post using the “report problem post” feature link in specific post where you believe you name calling has occurred.</p>
<p>Hope we can get back to our regularly scheduled program…:)</p>
<p>For cptofthehouse and bonnie mom:</p>
<p>cartera: southern caramel cake? I’ve never heard of it but the name inspires instant cake lust. Please tell me more about it while I run off and google recipes. Thank you.</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish to discuss this wedding form the political standpoint, could you please start a new thread in the appropriate forum? We have posted too much good stuff on good old non-political, wedding-related things to let it all perish in the abyss a.k.a. Parent Cafe - Election and Politics.</p>
<p>Thank you! :)</p>
<p>Umm…you guys…this thread is about Chelsea’s wedding…not presidential family trips and expenditures or policies or politics. This isn’t the Political Forum and in fact, political discussions are not even allowed outside the Pol Forum on CC. If you want to discuss those topics (all valid topics and opinions of course), can you start a thread on that in the Political Forum??? You can find it here:</p>
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<p>Please and thank you from those of us who have chosen to participate in THIS thread in the CAFE (not political forum) the past 12 days and wish to continue to do so and not have the thread moved to the Political Forum where we’d be less inclined to visit.</p>
<p>Really, how many times do the moderators and other posters on this thread have to ask? It’s not the Politics Forum. Post about the wedding, please, or elsewhere for the other stuff.</p>
<p>I cross posted with BunsenBurner and frazzled…thinking alike!</p>
<p>What we really need are a couple of luscious pictures of the cake and Chelsea’s first dance. That’ll get the thread moving in the right direction. Not likely to happen though :(</p>
<p>My guess is that they will not release more photos. It is nice that they did release a few. But all along, it seems they tried to keep the wedding as private as possible and not as a public spectacle and did not seek the public spotlight for this wedding (though are naturally in it by virtue of their positions). I’d love to see more photos but think it is not that likely. It would be nice to see a photo of the bridesmaid dresses from the designer and would not have to reveal the actual bridesmaids themselves. I suppose the same could be said for the wedding cake design which I’m sure was photographed in the bakery before it went to the wedding!</p>
<p>Whoa, there. No bunched up panties here. That is more extreme than the way I am reacting by far. My initial foray into this area was the bringing up the contrast on how the Clinton wedding was received in comparison to Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain. Both events were expensive and luxurious. One got great press, the other got panned. </p>
<p>Personal spending and activities, unless criminal and horribly immoral, are not things that affect my vote, so neither event would make a bit of difference to me as a voter (who voted for Obama). I would not have recommended either display of great wealth in these times if I were a political advisor because it just doesn’t look good. I don’t know what kind of difference this would make politically, given the example of Jimmy Carter and his austerity that didn’t make a whit of difference in his popularity, and Nancy Reagan’s spending that didn’t seem to hurt her husband in the polls where it counted.</p>
<p>I am curious where they went on the honeymoon and have to say they have done a good job so far keeping that private (am sure there were non-disclosure clauses in there). Maybe after the fact, it will be leaked.</p>
<p>We went to a very nice wedding last summer in Boston and the reception was held at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Everything was done upscale, but tasteful. When the reception was over, it all of a sudden occurred to me that we never saw the cutting of the wedding cake, that their hadn’t been one. We had cake (it was very delicious), but it was served to us at our dinner tables, already cut. </p>
<p>This was the first time I’d been to a wedding where there was no traditional cutting of the cake and I wondered if it was an east coast thing… speaking of which, I wonder if Chelsea and Marc danced to Sweet Caroline (another east coast tradition I hear of).</p>
<p>cptofthehouse…Well, one’s daughter only gets married once (well, assuming so) and I wouldn’t want someone to make decisions on the wedding based on political polls. They may be public people but have a right to hold family celebrations as they please.</p>
<p>teriwtt…I have not been to many weddings in recent times. But I am from the East Coast and we surely had the cutting of our wedding cake at our reception (in fact, it seems traditional, I think(?), for the couple to feed one another a piece of it). Haven’t heard of the Sweet Caroline tradition…was not at my wedding.</p>
<p>Really? Neil Diamond song as the first dance song? Really???</p>
<p>*** Wasn’t that song written for/inspired by Caroline Kennedy?</p>
<p>Yea, hard to imagine moving very gracefully to that particular beat. Maybe if you’re Caroline Kennedy. Although Caroline Kennedy doesn’t quite go with Neil Diamond…</p>
<p>No, no, no… not the first song, but just a song that’s played at almost every wedding reception there is on the east coast.</p>
<p>I got married on the E coast-- no “Sweet Caroline” played at my wedding. Of course this is an N of 1 (ie a study with only one case). I don’t remember attending any weddings where it was played. Maybe this is a new tradition. Our rule was to tell the musicians at every wedding that under penalty of death they were NOT to play “Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree”. Hate that song-- even if it was written for a good reason.</p>