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June 3, 2010 by Tien Chiu

Eternity cake

Yesterday I met with the bakery that’s doing the cake to discuss the decorations.  We agreed that the white chocolate glaze, while tastier than fondant, doesn’t travel as well, so switched to a rolled fondant coating with a ribbon wrapped around each layer of the cake.  I had originally intended to use gold ribbon, but upon returning home, discovered to my delight a hitherto-forgotten scrap of wedding-coat fabric, big enough to make ribbons for the cake!

So the chef will make a poured-sugar double-happiness character (gold character on clear background) to  go on top of the cake, and each layer will be wrapped in an eternity-knot ribbon with gold trim.  Here’s what it will look like against the cake layer:

handwoven ribbon to go around the wedding-cake
wedding-cake ribbon

The white paper represents the height of the layer, so that gives you an idea of what it will look like on the actual cake.  The fondant will probably be a very pale ivory, to coordinate better with the ribbon.

I had a brief moment of total panic yesterday when the friend who is officiating our wedding emailed to say that he wouldn’t be able to get deputized to perform a legal marriage in time!  I called up my friend Lena, who is a Tibetan Buddhist lama and will be at the wedding, and asked if she could sign the marriage certificate instead.  Shortly after that I discovered that the Universal Life Church will ordain people instantly online, and that this is apparently good enough to qualify as a religious leader in California.  (Go figure!)  So that problem is solved, one way or another.

T minus 10 days!

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