|
My wedding was at a lighthouse. For the the cake, my baker smoothed out buttercream and placed seashell candy around the cake. She painted the candy so it looked like mother-of-pearl. The result was very simple and pretty.
Since my wedding was a destination event and my hubby and I were starting our honeymoon immediately after the reception, my mother-in-law decided to temporarily take custody of the top tier of the wedding cake. She kept it in a cooler, drove it home, and then opened the box to take a peek before she re-wrapped it and put it in the freezer. Apparently, she thought the caterer had wrecked the top layer by just dropping it in a cake box and taping it up. She said it was lopsided and the frosting was everywhere. What does she decide to do? THROW OUT MY WEDDING CAKE AND REMAKE IT!!!
But before she does this, my MIL salvages some of the candy seashells to reuse. Unfortunately, she has the IQ of a rock. SHE THOUGHT THEY WERE REAL SHELLS AND TRIED TO WASH THEM IN HOT DISHWATER. She realized they weren't real as they disintegrated in the sink.
She told me all of this a week later as she sheepishly handed me a bakery box with my "homemade replacement cake" and a gawdy lighthouse snowglobe to use as my cake topper on my one year anniversary. I was too horrified to say anything.
|