A wedding cake wasn't originally part of the plans. After all, it is somewhat frivolous spending and we are on a budget. However, two things clicked. First: it turns out that cakes aren't massively expensive here. A cake from Brighton's top-ranked bakery (according to TripAdvisor) that serves up to 65 guests costs £130, literally £2 per person. We're considering paying more than that to give each person a coffee or tea with dessert, and those won't make for nearly as pretty a picture as a three-tiered wedding cake. And second: although the French may have mastered the realm of desserts, they don't actually do wedding cakes. They only see them in the movies.
We're trying to make this wedding as rich of a cultural experience as possible for all of our guests, a large proportion of whom will be coming from a wedding-cake-less world on the other side of the Channel. So, unlike their queen who they enthusiastically beheaded, we will be letting the large contingent from the continent (and all our other guests) eat cake.
The bakery has appropriately named itself Cloud 9. And by the time we've sliced our way through a mountain of vanilla, chocolate, and freshly chopped strawberries in buttercream, cloud 9 is just where we'll all be.
We're trying to make this wedding as rich of a cultural experience as possible for all of our guests, a large proportion of whom will be coming from a wedding-cake-less world on the other side of the Channel. So, unlike their queen who they enthusiastically beheaded, we will be letting the large contingent from the continent (and all our other guests) eat cake.
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| Yes, there will be cake. |
The bakery has appropriately named itself Cloud 9. And by the time we've sliced our way through a mountain of vanilla, chocolate, and freshly chopped strawberries in buttercream, cloud 9 is just where we'll all be.
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