Let them eat cake…
Kasia June 28th, 2008
…at the wedding reception. After all, it’s tradition!
Canuck and I have ordered our wedding cake, deposit and all. Half a dozen of us (me, Canuck, TBS, Jill, and my father and stepmother) traipsed out to Mannino’s Bakery in Sterling Heights (which I highly recommend to anyone looking for a wedding cake or just some yummy Italian-style pastries – based on what I’ve seen thus far, they’re about as good as the fabulous Bommarito’s over here in St. Clair Shores) for a cake tasting. We tried four flavor combinations: chocolate cake with yellow custard, yellow cake with yellow custard, marble cake with no filling, and cassata (yellow cake with cannoli filling).
Now, I shan’t tell you which flavor we settled on (though they were all quite tasty!), but I will tell you that despite their all being very good and tasty cakes, the votes were unanimously for the agreed-upon flavor. And Mannino’s had an excellent staff member (a member of the family – she couldn’t have been 25 or I’ll eat my hat, but boy did she know her stuff!) helping us, and we came up with a combination of two designs that I think is going to be simply gorgeous.
What I found funny: my stepmother knows me too well. She knows I would have to be browbeaten into buying a pedestal cake plate for this (and if I did it I’d grumble the whole time about how it wasn’t really necessary) – heck, I’m being browbeaten into wearing a headpiece with my veil! – so she wrote down all the particular dimensions and is going to go shop for one and buy it for us. That way she gets the satisfaction of seeing it look “just so”; I get the satisfaction of seeing it look “just so” (even though I probably wouldn’t have missed it to begin with); and no one has to listen to me moan about it. Win-win-win. 
I think I may dream about that cake tonight…
What?!? You took Jill and left me out, okay fine. But you won’t even let me know what was picked?!?
– The Unloved One
You’ll see it at the reception!
We already had six people to divide these cupcakes amongst…gee whiz!
I may see it, but Jill knows what the secret flavor is….
You know it’s like torture to wait to find out something…. 
I didn’t need to go for a tasting….
– The Unloved and Exasperated At One
Are you seriously telling me that you’re going to lose sleep wondering what flavor my wedding cake is?!?
Jaibee, believe me… if it’s made by Mannino’s, it doesn’t matter what flavor it is
Clam, Mrs. DJ and I love you already… but picking Mannino’s for your wedding cake makes us love you even more!
The flavor’s not the point! I’m being cut out of the Inner Circle of Knowing!
I’m not one of the Favored Friends! (Family’s a different issue…)
Jill could say, “Nah nah, I know something you don’t know!”
And, no, I probably won’t lose sleep.
(Sigh) You know very well that Jill will not do that.
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:-p …goofy girl! (And now that I know you feel this way about it, I will try very hard not to succumb to Little Seester-ish brattiness and do the “I know something you don’t know!” bit myself…
So…how ’bout them Tigers?
No clue about the Tigers.
Worried sick all night (not about the Tigers).
I did find a nice song about the Team Italia Campioni del Mondo, World Cup Soccer.
Makes me happy.
…Praying….
Jill promises not to say “nah-nah.”
If she could say more she would, but then the Clam may be obliged to kill her.
Jill,
Of you and youz famlee at thee peeknique? 
The video of Fr. JJ doing the Hokey Pokey? 
Did you see your peeksures up on the website?
Hahahahahahahha!
Mmmmmmmm……..ca-a-a-a-ake!
They ALL sound good. And to Jaibee…if there’s layers or tiers involved, you could be getting a little of…more than one. Imagine all the possible combos!
(Sorry, but I, too, am a “little seester…”)
Kit
Kit – I will say that it has butter cream frosting…mmm…