Wedding Cake, Oh so Good!

My lovely friend Stacey from It's not you, it's me, wrote a post yesterday about not being a cake person.  Her post inspired me to write why I love cake, specifically my wedding cake.

I have always been a cake person whether it is cake or a cupcake.  I am more partial to vanilla cake than chocolate cake (I know what is wrong with me?)...always have and always will.  But the best cake is funfetti.  No I didn't have a wedding cake with a funfetti tier.  Why we didn't, I will never know.

So without further ado, here is my amazingly delicious wedding cake.

I still dream about this cake.  We went to two vendors for cake tasting in South Lake Tahoe, California.  We went to Sugar Pine Cakes and Flour Girl Wedding Cakes.  Flour Girl won us over immediately.  Not only did she have about 10 different cake flavors to try, but different fillings (fruits, custards and creams) and frostings.  Plus it smelt heavenly in her bake shop.  Rory isn't a big cake fan and he loved her cakes, so we were sold.

We got a three tiered round cake with an additional sheet cake to store in the kitchen of our venue.  The bottom layer was my favorite, vanilla bean cake with fresh strawberries and Bavarian cream.  The middle tier was lemon cake with lemon curd and cream cheese.  The top tier was spice cake with apricots and preserves with cream cheese.  Our sheet cake was red velvet cake (with a hint of almond) with fresh raspberries and chocolate mousse.  My frosting was a very light buttercream.  Just perfect as I am not a huge fan of gobs of frosting on my cakes.  My mouth is watering right now.

This wasn't exactly our design of our cake as the order and cake sheet were opposites, but the cake turned out beautifully.

Oh what about that cake topper....I made that.  I had such a hard time with an Etsy seller (she took my money and ran with no topper in return) that I thought it can't be too hard to make.  And it wasn't.  With the help of my dad, he cut out an acrylic monogram B that I designed (similar to many online).  Then I bought Swavorski crystals and glued each crystal of different sizes on the topper.  I think it is stunning.  Maybe I should make them and sell them on Etsy as it was one of my favorite DIY wedding projects.

Here is a close up of my cake topper.

DIY Cake Topper

Back in April, I bought a cake topper on Etsy.  Big mistake.  I have bought several items on Etsy and never had any issues until I purchased a topper from CrystalLuxeGalore.  Her account has been suspended for failing to send several brides their items.  I wanted a monogram cake topper with crystals.  Simply enough.  Here is the topper I bought, but with a B instead of an A.

                                     Image via CrystalLuxeGalore (page no longer working)

She was clever enough to not respond to me or others until after the 45 day mark, so we couldn't file anything with PayPal.  I had to jump through hoops, write my credit card company a letter and documentation after filing a complaint and I am still waiting to get my money back.  I filed a complaint through Etsy, hence why her account is suspended right now.  She said after over a month of me contacting her that she would refund my money and still nothing.  So I took matters into my hands and made my own.  How hard could it be?  Not that hard.

My dad has this fancy new machine at work that cuts glass, metal, plastic, acrylic, etc.  So I asked him to cut me a B with photo inspirations I sent him.  Here is what he made for me in 5 inches and 6 inches.

                                                                    Personal Image

So I headed out to Michaels and searched for crystals.  They have all sorts of looks from cheap to super expensive.  Since I want to use this in my child's (future child that is) room, I decided to spend extra.  I used the Create Your Style Swarovski Crystal Elements in 3mm, 4mm and 5mm.  I also purchased the glue.  Here are the crystals, but not in the right color.  I used plain crystal.

                                                            Images via michaels.com

I really recommend using the glue.  It has one side where you can pick up the crystals and set it on the item of your choice.  Made my life easier and this was one of my favorite DIY projects.  So without further ado, here is my cake topper.

What do you guys think?