No Subtle Hints Are Ever Thrown at a Wedding...

Guess who caught the bouquet and garter?

Yep, Mr. Man and myself were practically handed them and if the Pastor had hung around I'm sure we would have been herded to the altar.

So this is what six batches of icing looks like.

Here are the cakes being iced and re-iced.  My sister kind of left the decorating bit to me and I stayed up all night trying to figure it out.  What to do?  I sort of had a blank canvas in cake form.  I had a lot of ideas and my poor mom, well, I think I know where I get my impatience from.  Ha-ha! 

The groom's cake was easy.  They wanted a battlefield scene and I was provided the Civil War characters with the caveat, "I want a couple dead."

Many aliens were destroyed while cakes were being decorated.

Here are the cakes minus their bottom borders which needed to be done on site.  They were ready to be transported to the wedding venue.  Three double-layer cakes:  6, 8, and 10 inch rounds.

So loading up the car to take the cakes over to the bed and breakfast one cake slid back and sustained significant icing damage and on the drive there another cake sustained similar damage.  These things will happen when you leave the anti-slipping mat at home on the counter two states away.

I had one hour to redecorate them.  Luckily one glass of wine later they were done and it was cool and all was good.   Florence and her staff at the Gettysburg Battlefield Bed and Breakfast were so nice and let me use their kitchen to fix, well, redecorate the 8 and 10 inch cakes.

Maybe only a little lopsided, but good as new.  No harm, no foul.

Oh, right!  And the misplaced marriage license was triumphantly found...

So my lovely sister and her man were married on a beautiful day on a historic site wearing their civil war regalia.  She looks so beautiful.  (You've got to love sepia!)
 
Smooches!

It was so pretty on the battlefield, the weather couldn't have been better.  The bed and breakfast has a barn, which of course means barn cats --

-- which is why this guy had to stay home and could not play ring bearer.
 
"I only wanted to play..."

Oh, and the cakes were eaten.

And Mr. Man wore his suit.  Tee-hee.

Comments

[Michelle]

Da-amn, Mr. Man cleans up well! And how come no pictures of you?? Congrats to your sister and your mom looks good too!

[Toni]

If I didn't say it enough, I will say it again: The cakes were wonderful, you and Christopher were awesome, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

We will talk later about how icing got behind the coffee-maker... LOL!

Deuce is adjusting to a quiet house, I think he is looking for you guys.

[Bea]

The cakes are beautiful. Sounds like you had a good time with your family.

[jackie]

The cakes are beautiful! Great job! And your sister did indeed make a beautiful bride. It looks like a good time was had by all.