So no kidding, there we were, in a Starbucks in Morgan Hill, for two and a half hours.

Eating cake.

Laurie, our cake designer, is a genius.  She understands cake and sugar and icing and deliciousness and prettiness like nobody’s business.  Like no really, you’re going to love our wedding cake because it’s not only going to look epic, it’s going to taste epic.

Nobody told me what the cake meeting was going to be like.

We met Laurie at a Starbucks halfway between her home and ours.  She had samples of several flavors for us to nosh on, and she even had a wee tiny red velvet cake all decorated with fondant and everything, so we’d know what her fondant tastes like.  Not that we hadn’t already tried it, at two different birthday parties.  We know her work, and we know that we had never even considered using anyone else to make our wedding cake.

So we start by nomming slices of the wee red velvet, and she looks through my pinterest.  We talked about all the cakes Chris and I had pinned, and what we liked about them.  As we talked, Laurie gave us advice about what works and doesn’t, what’s easy, what’s unwise for a wedding outdoors in the middle of summer, and etc.  That woman knows EVERYTHING there is to know about cake.

And you could see a design coming together in her mind.  It was a beautiful thing to watch an artist work.  😀  At the end, she came up with a sketch for a four tiered cake that will feed 120 people.  Or maybe it’ll feed a bunch of people and she’s going to have what she calls a kitchen cake for the rest.  There will be black forest, sticky toffee, and carrot cake flavors.  And the icing filling OMG is so delicious.  She’s going to incorporate both of our plaids, and possibly the custom knot I designed for our invitations.  She’s even working flowers, heather and thistle into the design.

I cannot tell you how strongly I recommend Laurie.  I’ve tasted her cake, I’ve seen her work, and now I’ve seen her working process – and she is just amazing.