Volumes of Love: Let Us Eat Cake!

Oh cake. Mr. Library and I had been dreaming about our cake for nearly a year. When we went to our first tasting at Nothing Bakes Like a Parrott, we fell in love with the amazing flavors, textures, and the personality of baker Jessica. She was sweet, real, and an alum of my undergrad university! Perfect! Plus, she delivered, which was one of our key concerns. Since the price was right, we were thrilled to book her.

Beyond the delicious flavors, Jessica was great to work with because of her creativity. You see, I wanted to surprise Mr. Library a few times during our wedding day, and cake time was one of them. Somewhere along the planning line, I got the idea to order Mr. Library a special groom’s cake, something that typically isn’t done here in New England. I bounced the idea off from Jessica, and we came up with the perfect cake: an A1 cake! No, the flavor wasn’t A1, but it was shaped like a bottle! Mr. Library has a serious thing for A1 (it was the first thing in our fridge when we moved into our apartment and he eats it on everything, including salad and soup!), so what better way to incorporate his obsessions into the wedding?

Once the speeches were done and we had a minute, I asked Mr. Library to follow me over to the cake table for a surprise. When he saw it, his face lit up. It was perfect! I was thrilled, and everyone else at the wedding seemed to enjoy it too! The photographer, however, didn’t notice that it was there until he began showing me the photos in our album. Hmmmm…

After dinner was done, we went right into the cake cutting. Why make people wait any longer for this deliciousness? We decided on four different flavors: red velvet with raspberry and buttercream, strawberry cake with lemon buttercream, and chocolate cake with German chocolate filling in our wedding cake, and lemon cake with raspberry filling in the groom’s cake.

Wedding cake cutting is intimidating; no joke. Our wedding coordinator tried to help up figure out how to cut the cake. Why doesn’t anyone tell you to practice this before the wedding?

We gave it a shot, and when all else failed, I was a total lady and used my fingers. It was our wedding, right?

The ever important question then became feeding each other. If you have followed this blog or know us in real life, you know for a fact that Mr. Library and I are nothing if not classy, mature, and sophisticated. Still, we thought it would be okay if we just once put down our guards and fed each other cake without forks. And smooshing cake in Mr. Library’s face? Oh, that never crossed my mind at all! But maybe it was a good idea we went at the same time just to be on the safe side…

This was about when Mr. Library began to realize that I was trying to take the cake out of his mouth and that I was trying really hard to eat all of it off from his fingers in my mouth. But why ever would I want to do that?

Yeah, we became another couple who smooshed the cake. Do I regret it? Oh heck no. Sure, it wasn’t the most formal thing to do, but it was US. Our guests know and love us for being goofy with each other, and at that moment, it was about us and not so much them. So, to all of you brides out there worrying about what your guests will think if you attack your partner with cake, stop worrying. Just do what you want to do. Seriously. It was FUN!

Now that we were slightly covered in frosting and red velvet, we kissed, took in the moment, and then my new husband did the most gentlemanly thing he could do: he cleaned me up!

Now that our cake was being whisked into the kitchen for cutting, it was time to begin the formal dances. I really wanted to just dance already, and I think Mr. Library felt the same, but since we didn’t do our first formal dance yet, we were forced to do awkward ones until the DJ put on our song. Here’s to awkward dancing and all the fun that was to come!