Wedding season is in full swing and what is more important than the cake??  My dear friend Debi reminds us frequently that the chicken is not called Wedding Chicken, the flowers are not wedding flowers, even your friends who stand up with you are simply your attendants, but the cake is Wedding Cake.  Cutting the wedding cake is the first task you do together as newlyweds.  At this moment all eyes are on the couple and the cake.  Have you ever seen the room get quiet as the couple takes their first bite of mashed potatoes?  I have yet to see that, but I have seen 200 people watch intently as the couple cuts their cake. 

Brittnye came to me last year after tasting my cake at Weddings the Bridal Show in Nashville.  She loved my cake and thought it was the best she tasted that day.  Brittnye knew what she wanted from the start and was very organized and focused.  She chose a simple design that was adorned with soft cornflower blue and pale yellow ribbons and made just a little glitzy with strings of diamels around the bottom of the ribbons.  Her topper was a bouquet of Gerbera daisies and roses both in white and yellow that I put together when I arrived at the venue and it was set off beautifully by a rhinestone studded “F” monogram for her new last name. 

Brittnye chose alternating layers of white cake with Bavarian filling and marble cake with chocolate ganache filling all covered with silky smooth Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  Her fiance Paul loves yellow cake with chocolate icing so she decided to go with cupcakes with whipped ganache frosting in dark and milk chocolate for the groom’s cake.  She made 100 little flags to place in the cupcakes that were absolutely the cutest adornments ever.  The cupcakes were placed on acrylic stands decorated with ribbons that matched the cake.  

Brittnye and Paul’s reception was at the Water Street Event Center in Clarksville, TN.  I must say that I was impressed at this cozy venue on the Cumberland river.  It was beautiful and clean with a terrific back deck and rooms overlooking the water and was spacious enough for a few hundred people.  I wish I had taken pictures because it was lovely and those online do not do it justice.  

Spangler entertainment’s DJ Justin Thomas kept us entertained as my husband and I set up the cakes.  They sounded terrific and enticed my incredibly talented, extremely helpful, and amazingly handsome husband Jason to do a little lounge singing for me as we worked.  If the guests had as much fun during the reception as we did beforehand, it must have been an amazing night.  

Thank you Brittnye and Paul for allowing Covered with Icing to be the sweetest part of your special day!