Just back from our wedding tour of the north, here’s some pictures of the Eleanor & Andy’s wedding cake that me & Nicky made!
What inspired me to ask Eleanor if I could make her cake was the Eugene & Louise bakery art show. I blogged about it a while ago and have been itching for a good excuse to have a go since. Working the Marzipan was a bit harder than I had expected, not quite the same as plasticine.. Definitely didn’t reach E&L’s standards, but I think El was pretty happy with it none the less :)
The best bit was making all the marzipan men for the top. So much fun in fact that ended up with so many that they couldn’t all fit on the cake. We had extra marzipan for all the kids to make their own, took them about 10 minutes to realise it wasn’t plasticine and start eating it!
I think me & Nicky had the most brightly coloured wedding attire at the wedding! Although with everyone else on our row we almost had the whole spectrum.
Had to post a pic of this amazing old bus ticket machine, I was bus conductor on the way to the church and had to stamp the specially made tickets with it.
I’m afraid we were too pissed to take any pics of the cake actually being eaten.. but I’ve got a vague recollection that it tasted extremely good.
For those interested, more wedding pics and cake making pics on my Flickr.
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Said, on September 10th, 2009 at 10:52 pm :
I see a strong resemblance in one of those little guys with you. Nice job.
Said, on January 5th, 2010 at 2:27 pm :
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Said, on March 3rd, 2010 at 6:33 am :
Hey so I saw that you are engaged! CONGRATS! I would love to photograph your wedding if you guys don’t have someone in mind yet! :) Just thought I would throw that out there! I love your work!