I'm not totally sure what I was thinking, but I volunteered to make the wedding cake for Jim's wedding. It was one of those ideas that sounds really great until it's actually time to do it. I wasn't in it alone though, because Liz baked all the cakes (chocolate & pumpkin chocolate chip) while I made the icing & the fondant from scratch. Karen M. & Karen D. both helped out by filling & frosting the cakes with vanilla buttercream the night before the wedding.
Ultimately I did the majority of the fondant work... covering the cakes and then cutting out & applying about a zillion fondant leaves. I stayed up most of the night before the wedding finishing and when Karen & I set up the cake at the luncheon we wrapped each layer with brown satin ribbon. Then we placed a satin bow on top and dangled the ends down the cake. We thought it needed green and so we added sage green ribbons dangling down the sides. There ended up being 7 ribbons... one for each member of their new family. I scattered the leftover fondant leaves on the beautifully dressed table and breathed a HUGE sigh of relief that it was done. I don't know if you've seen the cakewrecks website, but that's what I was afraid of. Luckily, I think it turned out pretty well, seeing as it was was my first wedding cake and only my second try with fondant.
Check it out below and let me know what you think.
Jenny
P.S. We decided we'd call ourselves the one-shot bakery, seeing as we only had one shot to get it right! There was even a little place card by the cake to prove it.
Our Business Card
The cake stand was set on a fall wreath... very pretty!
A bit closer (the white on white detail is hard to see)
Here is the best close-up I got of the leaves.
They were cut in 3 different sizes and were individually veined.
