Labor of Love

There are very few reasons I'd pull an all-nighter these days. My sister-in-law Wendy is one of them. This girl is amazing and I love her to pieces. And yesterday she married Greg, who is also pretty great. Yay them!

Wendy requested that I make their cake, thus the all-nighter. I thought it might be interesting to let you know what goes into these babies. First, put the kids to bed. Then, get your husband to load some tunes on the laptop to keep you company all night. Spray paint silver the ugly gold mirror you found for 13 bucks (better than a $90 platter):

Next, cover your cardboard cake rounds with tinfoil (9:15-9:30pm)

Mix up all your cake batter. I use cake mixes enhanced with sour cream, butter flavoring, eggs, etc. (this ditty took 9 batches of batter) and pour into your various greased cake pans, then bake 'em all while making frosting, surfing the internet, packing for the wedding day, and straightening your hair(9:30-3am):

fill each cake (3-3:30 am):

frost those puppies, and don't even get me started on trying to get buttercream smooth (3:30-5am):

Insert dowels into bottom 2 layers to support cake, then stack them and pray they don't smoosh. Try to touch up damage (5-5:30am):
Why go to sleep, gotta leave in an hour and a half. Finish getting dressed and wake up your family. From 4:30-5:30pm add the flowers and ribbon and heave a sigh of relief it didn't smash somehow on the way to the reception, you can't really seatbelt these babies.

Cakes have become something I only do for family.
It's fun but just sooo much work. And then they just get eaten and smooshed in faces.
Well, sure love ya Wendy and Greg! We're glad you got married.