I had a big wedding coming up... I mean a *BIG* wedding, but more on that later.  I usually book the week before a wedding off from other projects so that I can get all my planning, shopping and organizing done.  However, when I saw an email from my bride asking me to make the cake & cupcakes for her bridal shower/traditional Greek bedding ceremony, I couldn't say no!  She said that everyone enjoyed the engagement cake I made for them so much, that she would really love for me to make the cake for her bridal shower.  She sent me a picture of a yellow cake with colourful flowers (below) and asked for cupcakes to go with it.

Here's my version, with the pretty cupcakes to go with it.  The cake is vanilla with a raspberry buttercream filling and the cupcakes are devil's food chocolate with French vanilla buttercream.  And for anyone else who was wondering...

"The Wednesday before the wedding is the day the bride invites her relatives to get the dowry ready. For those of you who do not know about dowries, basically they are made up of the linen for the new couple’s home, which the bride’s mother has collected over the years, while waiting for her daughter to marry. The bride’s sisters, friends and cousins separate the linen and tie it up in small parcels with colourful ribbons and again people arrive to gaze upon the beautiful bedding, the handmade tablecloths, the colourful towels, the expensive carpets that are all set up in one room for all to see."

This summer I had the extreme honour of making the wedding cupcakes for my friends Genevieve and Andrew.  We had a tasting at their house a few months ago, and after some amazing home-made pizza and wine, they dove into the test cupcakes.  Once all the dust settled, the couple agree on 120 vanilla cupcakes, topped with Lime, Chocolate and my my favourite, French Vanilla Mocha, buttercreams.  They loved the Fr. Van. Mocha just as much as I did, and decided to have that for their topper cake.  The cake is topped with hand made,and hand painted gum paste roses.  The trickiest part of this adventure, was then transporting all these many cupcakes and cakes up to the gorgeous venue in Penetanguishene.  Thank goodness the AC in my car still works!  It was a beautiful (but HOT!) wedding, and I was very happy to be a part of it.  Congrats Gen & Andrew!