<p>Mollie:</p>
<p>Your photographer better take a lot of digital photos!!! Your invitations are fine and will not raise any eyebrows. As for cake, you’ll know it when you see (or taste) it. Promise that you won’t do that ridiculous cramming-cake-into-spouses-mouth move ala “Funniest Videos” where people smear cake on each other like it’s a 1-year-old’s birthday party. Just don’t. </p>
<p>So what are you registering for? If I had to do it again, I would ask for entirely different things.</p>
<p>Ohmigod, no cake mashing. I’m too much of a neat freak. And I’ve always thought that ritual was a little odd – it’s one of those things that I think is supposed to be funny, but it isn’t funny, really.</p>
<p>Luckily for everybody on CC, our photographer posts all of the photos she takes on a photo website within a few weeks of the wedding. :)</p>
<p>We registered for a lot of cooking stuff – really nice pots and pans, fun accessories (a pasta maker, a Kitchenaid mixer, a Foreman grill), and a silicone bakeware set. We also asked for some nice sheets and towels – the ones we have are definitely dorm room chic. We’re getting Fiestaware instead of fine china, because both of us have seen how often the fine china our parents got for their weddings gets used (never). Ooh, and a whole jungle-themed bathroom set from Target! :D</p>
<p>momof3sons, we may need help – there are so many bakeries in Boston, and I just may need to visit all of them! You know, in the name of comparative shopping and all.</p>
<p>And ophiolite, I would definitely appreciate any heads-up you might be able to give about cakes. At the moment, I just feel like we have too many options – so many of the cake places offer twenty fillings and ten cake flavors and it just makes my head spin.</p>
<p>Mollie:
Ask each of the bakeries what their specialty, their best, is and give that a taste and then also ask which is the most widely requested flavors for weddings. If you’re not going to choose to please yourselves (your favorite flavors or Adam’s), then the most logical thing to do is to pick what would be the most widely pleasing to the most people, for the sake of your guests. Glad to hear about what you have registered for as I didn’t want to give unsolicited advice but that is exactly what I would have suggested. Don’t ask for ridiculously expensive china, crystal and silver and ask instead for high-end, long-lasting cookware (All-Clad is my favorite), knives, or fun everyday stuff. You are off to a great start!</p>
<p>i baked our wedding cake, ceremony held by a stream, we wrote our ceremony,…hope that helps</p>
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<p>mollie, will you be visiting Rosie’s for your cake tasting?</p>
<p>We had a lemon poppyseed cake from there, plus a chocolate groom’s cake.</p>
<p>(The groom’s cake tradition seems to be something from the midwest, no one in the Boston area was familiar with it.)</p>
<p>My aunt, who is big on making miniatures, wanted to make a miniature of us to put on our cake. We intead requested a miniature Adam and Eve. She was a bit taken aback, but did make it for us! (I still have it if you want to borrow it…)</p>
<p>We put a brontosaurus on the groom’s cake, the bronto sported wire-rimmed glassed like my husband wears…</p>
<p>We had carrot cake with buttercream frosting at our wedding, which I remember enjoying enormously. I also remember the caterer telling me that it would be 40% extra if she actually used real butter in the cake. We used the real butter and it was the second best wedding cake I’ve ever had. </p>
<p>The first best was a vanilla whipped cream cake at my older sister’s tiny wedding reception (there were ten of us) at a fancy restaurant in NYC in 1969. But that marriage only lasted a few years. Yes, I still remember that cake, in fact I remember a lot of that meal because it was spectacularly good.</p>
<p>I want carrot cake for my wedding (it’s my favorite!), but my fiance is pushing me away from it since it isn’t a universal crowd-pleaser. :(</p>
<p>A good carrot cake really is a crowd pleaser–you’d be surprised</p>
<p>My issue with carrot cake is that the commercial variety is seldom even close to as good as homemade.</p>
<p>How about cherry chip cake? Had that at a wedding once–it was so pretty and everyone seemed to like it. (Mine was chocolate and vanilla–boring-- and yes, H smeared the icing all over my face. He hasn’t grown up in 20 years. . .)</p>
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<p>I had brunch with a group of friends recently and the discussion turned to " the greatest social faux pax each of us has ever committed. Well, one woman mentioned that she hadn’t yet sent a baby gift to a friend. The second told a hilarious story about something she had done years before when she “regifted” a beautiful silver dish that was sent to her son on the occasion of his birth without realizing that her son’s name and birthdate had been engraved on the thing! </p>
<p>But the funniest story of all was when the third woman admitted to … sending a Save the Date to a relative for her son’s bar mitzvah and… forgetting to actually invite the person !!! Phone call two weeks later asking if she had ever had the party and major embarrassment for friend!!! (but it makes a good story now - we were all hysterical, ROFL the way she told it!).</p>
<p>Moral of story - keep track of that Save the Date list!</p>
<p>Agreed that you should stay away from chocolate. Some of your guests would totally love it, others will smile politely and not touch it.</p>
<p>And it really disappoints me when people have carrot cake at formal functions, since I do save my calories to be able to splurge on the cake, and most carrot cakes are close to inedible. I agree it will not be a “crowd pleaser”.</p>
<p>Since everyone is sharing their “We had…” stories, we had a strawberry shortcake, which was just dreamy. (Of course if you have guests who are allergic to strawberries, you have a problem with this. But then there are others like me who can’t eat coconut, or people who can’t eat nuts, so there will always be food allergies you can’t take into account.) Cherry chip sounds pretty good too!</p>
<p>What a fun thread! I love all of your photos and descriptions. It sounds like it will be beautiful!
FYI- We had banana cake at our wedding and it was delicious!
Sister-in-law had 3 layers each a different flavor so it pleased everybody.
Have fun tasting - that was definitely my favorite part of the planning!</p>
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<p>I think it’s also a southern thing. My sil had a chocolate groom’s cake (Yummy!) and a fruitcake bride’s cake. (Yuck!)</p>
<p>Our cake was white chocolate with sort of a raspberry spread (which came as a complete surprise). Despite the fact the cake looked nothing like advertised, it was delicioius and many people have told me it was the best tasting wedding cake they’ve ever had.</p>
<p>We’re definitely going to have a groom’s cake, if only because my fiance is really excited about the idea of having an airplane-shaped cake. (Nerd. :D)</p>
<p>Haha, rorosen, he also watched a Martha Stewart wedding DVD and tried to convince me that he himself could bake the wedding cake. I’m not quite so optimistic about his baking abilities – he’s a great cook, but I’ve never seen him bake something that wasn’t out of a box. Although perhaps Betty Crocker Funfetti cake is the real answer to the what-wedding-cake-flavor dilemma.</p>
<p>Just had to jump in and say I love the airplane cake idea! Airplanes rule. Best of luck!</p>
<p>My b-i-l, a pilot, had an airplane groom’s cake, too. (I’d never heard of a groom’s cake–figured it was a southern thing). A helicopter picked up the bride and groom from the reception–that was a surprise! (Not to give your fiance any ideas, Mollie).</p>
<p>Mollie, I’ve been reading your posts since late 2005 when D was filling out applications. Your wedding thread is incredibly fun, you’re so kind to share the details.</p>
<p>RE: Cake – The best wedding cake i’ve EVER tasted was italian cream. I remember the guest raving about the cake. Just a suggestion.</p>
<p>Any Boston-area CCers want to weigh in on a good location for a rehearsal dinner? It would be for about 25-30 people, and I would personally be happy keeping it pretty low-key. It will probably have to be at some sort of restaurant or facility – MIL and FIL will be staying at a hotel in Boston for the night, and I doubt anyone would be interested in trekking to Plymouth after the rehearsal and then back to Boston.</p>
<p>In other wedding news, my dress came in! My mother will be chaperoning it out to Boston and attending my first fitting with me at some point.</p>
<p>We also picked a cake place – the cake will be from [Party</a> Favors](<a href=“http://www.partyfavorsbrookline.com/]Party”>http://www.partyfavorsbrookline.com/) in Brookline and will look like [this</a> one](<a href=“http://www.d1024526.dotsterhost.com/images/stories/fullsizeimages/cakes/weddding/mix%203%20708.jpg]this”>http://www.d1024526.dotsterhost.com/images/stories/fullsizeimages/cakes/weddding/mix%203%20708.jpg), but with a few sugar calla lilies instead of the flowers that are on it. Deciding on a cake took some talking – I liked the cake at another place, but it (literally) made my fiance sick. Oops.</p>
<p>I love this thread. Thanks for sharing this event with the CC community. The cake looks lovely, but did you come up with a flavor? I’m a carrot cake lover, but agree with maysixxmom that Italian cream is delicious.</p>
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