Two days of trying out cake is more than enough for my mostly salty sweet tooth. In a round about way, we have finally found and secured a wedding cake maker and a dinner caterer for our event. Asking around for the past week or so has brought up little results, except the complaint that there are no wedding cake makers in the general vicinity of our event venue. Asking as a last resort at the local party rental store, we were met with fantastic customer service when given several phone numbers for potential bakers and a suggestion to visit a local bakery/deli which orders delectable cakes from local bakers to sell by the slice and the entire cake. So, having worked up an appetite, we found the deli, had lunch and then 2 melt in your mouth cakes of the Marion berry and chocolate cheesecake variety. Upon talking to the owner, she provided us with the baker’s name and location, so we could set up an appointment. The funny part about all of it is as soon as we arrived back at my future in-laws house, I noticed the name of the baker and bakery we had just discovered on her refrigerator. Come to find out, a co-worker had recommended the same place to her earlier that day. Coincidence or fate? You decide. The next step was to check out their website before driving over, and within moments of scrolling through the beautiful cakes on their site, we knew we had found our baker! J Tasting even more of their cakes from their storefront just confirmed it. After cake eating, we headed to meet with a potential caterer, graciously set up through my future mother-in-law. Very down to earth, easy to talk with, and willing to do just about whatever we wanted in terms of food, it was another perfect fit. Nailing all of these details down now makes me feel so much more relaxed about the event to come.
There have been days I’ve just wanted to turn it all over to my fiancé to take care of and have even said so to him, which was probably a mistake because what I really want is to do it all together. I just get overwhelmed, nervous, and stressed when I am walking on ground I have never walked on before. I don’t know how to do all this. I am no wedding planner, that’s for sure, but I am an organizer, a planner, so it’s hard for me, feeling the need to organize and plan, but not really knowing where to start or what to do. It’s definitely been an insightful process for me, not realizing the stress that would be associated with it and how to approach and address it productively when it appears, specifically in regards to myself. The learning curve has thrown me way off track the past few days, but I’m gradually finding it again and working with my patient fiancé to find that crucial caterer and cake decorator is putting us back on the straight path to a memorable wedding and reception.
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It's cake - you can't go wrong. I haven't yet met a cake I didn't like. :)
And you should taste this cake! It's absolutely heavenly! Thanks to the precious Mennonite family at the Lovin' Oven for making it much easier than I originally thought it was going to be. :)
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