This post is part of a series my friend Erin is writing for the site as she plans her upcoming wedding.
Birthday Cake… For our Wedding?
I have come to realize something silly. Are you ready for the silliness? I wasn’t – it doesn’t make things easy when you are planning a wedding. Regardless, the silliness is this: Any item purchased that has “wedding” in the title is automatically double the price of any normal item.
This is a picture of my nephews being silly. Hi, Caleb & Collin!
This is a picture of my other nephew being silly. Hi, Tristan!
Nephews are silly sometimes. I digress sometimes.
Anyway. Case in point? Our wedding cake purchase. There are many other examples I can share that would illustrate the aforementioned silliness of the word wedding, but I will start with one of the biggest.
To start at the beginning of The Wedding Cake Saga I would have to go back months and months… which I won’t do to spare your eyelids from slipping closed while it’s still light out. I will simply say that I was quoted a price for an item and when it came down to it, given another price altogether by the same company for the same item months later. During a conversation that had my heart beating and my voice rising (I’m not so good on the confrontational situations), I learned the reason for the said price difference. I was originally quoted the “Birthday Cake” price instead of what I asked for, the “Wedding Cake” pricing. And now I know that God himself intervened on my behalf and forced the cake man’s lips to give me the birthday cake pricing. At first it only added to my irritation. I am planning a wedding. And yes, it involves a party but I swear on my beloved engagement ring that I never said anything about someone’s birthday.
Yes, that engagement ring. I’m quite proud, just ignore me.
“You see,” said cake man, “When we provide birthday cakes, we only use two layers of cake with one layer of filling in the middle. A wedding cake is made with four layers of cake and three layers of filling.” OK, so maybe there are people out there who care about the number of layers of cake at their wedding, however those people are probably rich. Or they are the baker. Either way, I am neither of those. So at my wedding, I will officially be having a “birthday” cake. It will look and taste like a wedding cake, but the invoice will say birthday instead of wedding and that doesn’t bother me or my checkbook one bit.
And just in case anyone is confused, there will be no cakes like this at the event.
Only a cake like this.
Or maybe this. Just kidding.
So, friends, this has taught me to dig into the dusty corners of my mind for my brain’s version of a thesaurus and in my Google searches to never again include the word “wedding”… while planning my wedding. Never mind, I’m not going to waste any more time rolling my eyes at how complicated wedding planning on a budget can be. I will just continue planning. May the force be with all of you brides out there!
Like this post? You might like read Erin’s other posts in this wedding series:
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