A Semi-Productive Weekend

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:31 AM

Over the weekend, my future-in-laws (teehee) came over to help us with some wedding activities:

(1) Cake Tasting

I have been waiting for this for such a long time.  We went to Rossmoor Bakery to try five different kinds of cakes, and ultimately chose a three-tier round cake with five layers within each major layer (if that makes any sense at all):

white cake + raspberry chocolate bavarian creme + chocolate cake + raspberry chocolate bavarian creme + white cake

It is heavenly.  The cake is moist and the filling is fabulous.  The buttercream frosting is nice and smooth to achieve the fondant look without the craptastic fondant taste.  The only problem is the design we have in mind (various sizes of dotted circles in our colors overlappinig each other) is considered an enhancement so I'm waiting for the quote on the extra charge.  Boooo.  I was really hoping to check it off our list of to-dos.

(2) Tux Hunting

We went to Men's Warehouse to pick out tuxes since we'd obtained a discount from a bridal show we went to back in August of last year.  It turned out: (a) we couldn't try on tuxes there, which I knew beforehand thanks to other knotties; (b) we need to bring swatches of my dress and the bridesmaid dresses in order to pick out the vests / ties.  In the end, we at least created a group account and picked out the tux styles.  Oh well, another item half done.

 (3) Veil Hunting

Long time ago, I'd asked FMIL to make my veil for me.  To me, a veil is a piece of tulle that should not cost more than 30 bucks, so purchasing it from a store is not an option.  We first went to David's Bridal to try on various styles of veils, and I decided on a diamond-white single-layer fingertip length veil with silver threaded edge and crystals scattered on the bottom.  We then went to Joann to look at patterns, and finally went to Michael's to look for the comb.

Well, FMIL wants to purchase a veil that is already made and attached to a comb from Michael's and then put crystals on it ourselves . . . hmmmmm but, it's not the right shade of white!  Besides, it's probably not as good quality of tulle as those that are sold at Joann by the yard!  Not to mention, she rolled her eyes when I mentioned how I was going to buy Swarovski crystals to place on the veil because regular glass beads just weren't good enough for me.

In the end, the veil is yet another item that is half done.  Hence the "semi-" portion of the title.