Desserts: Wedding Pies and Red Velvet Armidillos...

Let's go back to the sweet things once again.  Now for me, as I'm struggling to beat the numbers on the scale down, I fluctuate between cravings for salty (Cedar and Sour Cream Ruffles) and sweet (ANYTHING from the Big Top Candy Shop-HELLO Chocolate Covered S'mores!).  Well in guilty pleasure trip, where I was introduced to CCSs (they are AWESOME btw) Rob and I started talking about wedding sweets (I know, stop beating a dead horse...)

That's when Rob came up with the idea of Wedding PIE. Yes, dear readers (people are reading right? hopefully?) Pie.  To rehash: Rob is not a cake fan, he barely finishes the top of Hey Cupcake! cupcakes, which are pretty good.  Though he will help me with ridiculously large pieces of Carrot cake if I chose to indulge.  Pie, especially Key Lime, he will DEVOUR, and eat what's left of my piece. No questions ask, no arms twisted.  So there will be pie. 
Rob will be choosing this pie, so if he finds a baker that can make Key Lime pie that is not neon green (apparently the real Key Lime pies look more like yellow tinted custard, who knew?), and makes a good-as-grandma-Lois's-on-par-with-New-Orleans Pecan Pie, we'll be in business.

Now on to my mother's input.
My mother is not a girly girl.  She doesn't see the need to start planning a year ahead of time AT ALL, which make my heart stop.  On the other hand she has some ideas that will happen because, well, she's kinda bank rolling the thing.  One of these ideas is the red velvet Armadillo, a la Steel Magnolias. I kid you not.  She wants to have one for Rob as a groom's cake, because, well, that's her sense of humor.  Rob's great excuse? "I don't like Steel Magnolias."  Not "I don't like red velvet cake" or "eating armadillo shaped cake just seems wrong." Leave it to Rob to go with the movie and not the practical excuse. 
My take: it's red velvet cake, and we can put cream cheese icing under the fondant? Sign me up.  It doesn't have to be big, just big enough to look good in photos.  Plus that means that the bridal cake can be ALL carrot cake-y goodness.

You don't suppose we're supposed to freeze the Armadillo head for the first anniversary do you?   

Dessert and Cake

I've been thinking with my sweet tooth. 
Rob doesn't LOVE cake.  He barely eats it to be honest. He likes rum cake and tres leches, but neither of those really work well in a cake (maybe Rum will).  So, in light of that, I have had a great idea.  This will hopefully also cut down on cost in the long run (I hope).

Welcome to LutterCon 2012!

This is what happens when you let your nerd-boy fiance start looking and suggesting invitations:
*these are all from other websites-they are all linked to their original websites.  I do not claim they are my own at all.  Just snippets from an AIM conversation Rob and I shared a few evenings ago.

Invitations

So, having fallen in LOVE with a wonderful stationary store, Paper Source, I have been looking at invitations, and thought I would share a few.  (Rob even chose one!)  Since we would really like to have the reception at a museum, I think that a really structural or art deco type of vibe. 
The following are all from Paper Source-plus we would do most of the script in a darker blue with lighter blue accents.

Freak Out

Okay, we hit the 19months away mark assuming that the date and year we've talked about sticks this time! 
In hitting this mark, I realized that the most practical time for my mother and I to go dress shopping is December!  I want to be significantly smaller than I am currently before I drape my pasty ass in yards of white fabric, which means that I have about 10 months to do it.  That means that between now and December I need to loose at least 7.5lbs a month to be under 200, 10lbs a month to be within 10-20lbs of goal weight.  I know I can do it!  There's lots of life style changes happening around here, but only time and the scale will tell me if they're working. 
Now we know why I'm freaking out!

Time to hit the gym!!!

Oh and there's a THEME!!

Alright, so "the talk" (i.e. the possibly traumatic, I end up accepting that we'll be at city hall in flip flops with twisty ties for rings out come conversation with my parents) happened with my mom in dad.  Not in a lets sit down and put numbers together kind of way, but in a what did you talk about at Grandma's kind of way.
This is how it came about: I went over to Grandma Lois's to give her a check for the loan she gave me and my Aunt asked about when the wedding would be, because they were planning out their travel for the year.(Something I have problems with, but that's neither here nor there) I told her (thinking she's crazy) it's not till next year, and not to worry about it yet. Well, then Grandma wanted to know more details and was asking questions, so I was answering.  The questions were basics like where, what colors, venue, etc., and nothing to set in stone.  At some point my Aunt puts in that she and Dana (the woman who works in the office with me and has been my mom's friend since elementary school or before) had talked and want to trow me a shower.  That little detail is where the conversation with my mother started.
I had to tell my mother about this factoid, I just had to.

Speaking of Cake

It's my Birthday!


I know what the groom's cake will not be: Red Velvet nor Carrot Cake. Rob apparently doesn't like either.  I know I'm acting like this is news to me, and really he's probably told me a million times that he doesn't like these, I just didn't listen.  I really think they are the best cake flavors ever and the fact that they are ALWAYS paired with cream cheese icing, make them my go to flavors.  Besides carrot cake counts as a serving of veggies right???
So we'll probably go with some flavor that comes out in a white color for the bridal cake.  Something along the lines of butter, pound, or maybe white chocolate (how yummy would that be!).  For Rob's cake it will probably be something a little more daring that just your run of the mill Chocolate (hence the white chocolate for mine...).  I'm thinking along the lines of Rum, Dulce de Leche, or something completely off the wall like pumpkin chocolate chip.  In the end I'll leave that decision to him.  All I know for sure is that it will not be an ice cream cake.  They always seem to melt on us.