filling, flavors and icing... oh my!

So this morning I got into the shower and instead of thinking about the things I have to do to get ready for work, what pops into my head? The cake tasting scheduled for tonight… and the fact that I didn’t call the bakery on Monday and let them know the flavors Brandon and I were interested in.  Crap.  I got to work and sent Brandon the website and made him look it over.  I told him to do some thinking and to let me know his top 4 flavors; meanwhile, I wrote down my top 4 flavors. Turns out – we had some in common, this is good. Phew! Maybe this won’t be too bad after all.

I called the bakery to see what we could do.  I spoke with a wonderfully nice man. I learned about the other specialties of the bakery.  I learned all about the fillings and the icings and the flavors and how those things all go together.  I learned about ideal fillings for certain times of the year. I learned about the downfall of certain fillings with certain icing and certain flavors.  I learned that the whole cake is centered around the filling and not the flavor of the cake, and I learned that all of the work that I had forced Brandon to do was null and void. And then I rescheduled our appointment.

Ok, so we need to start by picking a filling option.  Of course we do. Well maybe if the website had said that, we would have done it that way.  Oh, you mean it’s implied on there?  Of course it is…

I asked Dr. Levy, one of the founding doctors at Shady Grove Fertility (and one of my personal favorites) what kind of cake he would have if he was getting married again.  He said he loved chocolate cake and he really also loved vanilla.  An answer that was unfortunately not very helpful to me.  But then he said something very genuine that I really need to listen to. He said “Tori, I will tell you what I always tell my wife when she is trying to decide between brown cushions and black cushions and green cushions – in the big picture, it doesn’t really matter at all.”

So… does this mean you wouldn’t pick the white chocolate mousse?

working for a wedding weekend

3 days -- that's what stands between me and the weekend and right now it appears as though it will be a very wedding filled weekend and that’s a good thing. Last night I had another wedding nightmare... I know, I feel bad for me too. I still maintain that with over a year to go, I should not be having ANY wedding nightmares! I should be having only wonderful dreams about looking obscenely skinny and tan in my wedding dress… I am shallow, what did you expect?

Last night’s dream wasn’t nearly as bad as the other one. Last night I had a dream that it was the day before the wedding and Brandon and I had not sent out any of the invitations (I'm not sure how that's possible since we aleady have our DIY invitations purchased, we just have to do it ourselves) and I hadn’t made any arrangements with a florist and I had my mom running around (poor Liz) calling everyone in her phone book asking them if they were coming to the wedding. I didn’t have my nails done and I didn’t want to get married with my nails looking so ugly. My dress didn’t look like my dress and I didn’t love it. My mom was trying to calm me down, assuring me that people would come and it would be perfect, but I was not hearing any of it. I mean seriously – my nails looked horrible.

Rest assured, if this does happen (the whole forgetting to send out invites), I will not be without flowers because on Saturday Brandon and I are going to see the florist. Apparently this guy specializes in budgets and hydrangeas. How fitting because I want hydrangeas and I have a budget. So, we have an appointment with them at 11 and then we have a meeting at River City Grille at 2:30. (What’s River City Grille? Oh, it’s just the location of the rehearsal dinner. Yes, we finally found one!) So on Saturday we get to go to the hotel (yep, the rehearsal dinner is taking place in the hotel – talk about convenient!) and speak with the restaurant manager to plan some things out for the rehearsal dinner.  Just thinking about it makes me feel like I have actually accomplished something :)