Everyone had a different favorite but a handful of you agreed with mine:
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Before our appointment with Linda, I showed Mr. Ball Cap various cake pictures and he was on board with the brooch. I also told him I was kind of a fan of the quilted pattern look on a cake. We browsed around the internet and printed a few more styles to show Linda.
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Image via Palermo Bakery
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Image via Palermo Bakery
I figured most of these would be too "blingy" for Mr. Ball Cap, but at least we could get a feel for cakes that had both a brooch and quilting look.
Hive - Mr. Ball Cap liked the last one the best. Yep. The most blinged out cake was his favorite. I was in shock! Who is this man? LOL After talking some more, what he really liked were the squared tiers and how each tier was a little offset from the previous. He thought the quilting was cool and knew that the brooches would tie into other things we planned on doing. How insightful!
At our appointment with Linda, we shared our various pictures and ideas. She started digging around in her binder and pulled out a picture. It was our cake! It was exactly what we were leaning towards. She had just done a four tier, quilted cake for a New Years Eve wedding for her son last year. This lady was so meant to be!
I really thought a four tier cake would be way out of our budget and we'd have a much smaller cake for cutting and sheet cakes in the back. But Linda is amazing and we get to have a four tier, butter cream frosted cake, with offset tiers, quilting on the bottom and 2nd tier, navy ribbon around all tiers, and brooches on the non-quilted tiers for $150 less than our budget! It will have a similar look to the last pic above, but without the blingy belting or the sheen on the frosting/fondant. Ours will have a much softer look.
I don't plan on purchasing a cake topper as I cannot find one I like. With as much detail as our cake will have, we won't miss not having one. Linda has made sugar snowflake toppers in the past so we could always add that during our final consultation if we want.
Oh - and her cake tastes amazing! We tried her vanilla and lemon cakes and loved them both. We plan on having 2 - 3 flavors throughout the cake and one tier will possibly have a filling.
So as much as I loved a lot of the other designs (the confetti cake!), Mr. Ball Cap's opinions and my love of brooches and quilting patterns really pushed us to the right look.
Did your other half surprise you with an opinion or idea on a wedding-related matter?
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