<p>yes, really, soozie. But the rest of the story is that they met at a singles mixer at their city’s Museum of natural history, and held the wedding there too… under the dinosaur exhibits with the bird and jungle-type noise soundtrack going though the entire ceremony</p>
<p>jym, well, I always created themed parties for my kids’ birthdays through the years but honestly am not into themed weddings! My sister-in-law had a themed wedding and it was kind of odd.</p>
<p>The cake was, IIRC, two dinosaurs sitting upright side by side. Cute Dinosaurs-- not mean creepy ones. The rest of the wedding was not “themed”… except for th3e location of course. And it meant a lot to them-- and they pulled it off well.</p>
<p>I’m admiring the wedding cakes with absolutely no desire to eat them. Not so with the caramel cakes, which I could devour in a sitting!</p>
<p>NYMomof2, you won the prize!!! That was a GORGEOUS cake… Was… I hope they took lots of pictures. :)</p>
<p>I love caramel so would love to try one of those cakes! Yum.</p>
<p>The dinosaur cake story is very cute, jym. Made me think of Ross Geller!</p>
<p>There will be some more Chelsea pics in the issue of People coming out this week. None of the wedding party, from what I understand, though.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with Chelsea’s wedding, but since we already discussed ugly wedding dresses in this thread, here are some cakes to complement the dresses:</p>
<p>[World’s</a> Ugliest wedding cakes](<a href=“http://www.uglyweddingcake.com/index.html]World’s”>http://www.uglyweddingcake.com/index.html)</p>
<p>Make sure to check out the links featuring such creations as Zombie Cake (by Seattle’s own Mike’s Amazing Cakes) and Glow In the Dark Cake. Nice :)</p>
<p>I am sorry, BB. That thing looks like it has a phallus!!</p>
<p>Oh-- I see in the description that the bride gave that she agrees with me!! LOL!!
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<p>I guess that cake, well, takes the cake!</p>
<p>Just saw the discussion about caramel cake. Many in the south make the cake with buttermilk. I don’t think my mom did though. The key is the icing. My mom was never a fan of sweetened condensed milk so she just heated brown sugar, butter and milk. I can’t recall if she even used confectioner’s sugar or not. The key is to get it the right temperature - like making candy. I think she used a candy thermometer. Sometimes my mom made what she called a spice cake with caramel icing. The cake was made with a variety of spices - cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and had the caramel icing. My aunt was famous for her butterscotch pie - talk about decadent.</p>
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<p>Tsk, tsk, when you could have just made a Betty Crocker cake mix and donated the difference to charity! :-)</p>
<p>The artwork on the cake is tremendous, but I have never liked 100% white cakes. I would have liked it much better if the fondant were a nice pastel shade, or all the sugar flowers had been done in subtle, lifelike colors instead of just the calla lilies. I know it’s traditional and bridal and all that, but to me, realistically molded flowers in solid white suggest that some sweet-toothed vampire came along and sucked all the juice out of the flowers. Even some green leaves here and there would have given it some visual contrast and a lot more appeal to my eye.</p>
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^^ I assume you are referring to Chelsea’s cake, Hanna, and not the phallus sandcastle one ;)</p>
<p>jym, I wonder what they did with the “sandcastle” part of the cake. It’s not like anyone would actually have wanted to, well, perhaps we should say, “consume” it.</p>
<p>The sandcastle cake didn’t truly even look like a sandcastle. I’m not sure I would have thought it was a sandcastle had there not been a caption with the photo.</p>
<p>I also don’t really like the giant white-only cakes like Chelsea’s. </p>
<p>I wanted lots of colored flowers on our cake. When we arrived at the reception, I realized that my thoughts on what “a lot of flowers” would look like and the bakery’s idea were different. I would call theirs sparse. </p>
<p>Our cake also had a fountain with blue water in it with columns around below and supporting the bottom layer. H wanted the fountain. I was fine with it. We’re still married 25 years later. ;)</p>
<p>Mine was a tiered white cake decorated with real flowers. I liked it then and I like it now.</p>
<p>Frankly I think a lot of the choices brides have now are a lot more creative and fun than what was de rigueur (sp?) back when I was a bride. You wouldn’t have dreamed of having a cake with anything other than a white or yellow cake, decorations were pretty much staid flowers. I think it’s great there are so many choices.</p>
<p>I’ve seen this style before, and really like it (in the context of a formal invitation by the bride’s parents – could obviously be changed for a couple doing the inviting themselves)</p>
<p>Instead of a traditional invitation such as
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter blah-blah-blah</p>
<p>Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
request the honour of the presence of
(and then the guest’s name is hand-calligraphied)
at the marriage of blah-blah-blah</p>
<p>OMG, I love the ugly cake sites, mostly because it’s the bride or groom admitting their cake was hideous. My cake was very ugly, but in a more traditional way. I wanted yellow accents. At the bakery, the yellow they showed us was very mustard yellow; they said it was that intense so it wouldn’t fade in the light of the bakery window (as the sample) and that their “real” cakes used pastel yellow. Alas, not true. The roses on my wedding cake were mustard yellow. (There was something wrong with every aspect of my wedding.)</p>