Sunday 1 June 2008

Wedding Cakes and flowers ......

Isn't this bluebell a gorgeous colour?

As far as the title is concerned, I am including some pictures my sister took of me decorating a wedding cake in her kitchen for a friend of hers. I made the pink sugar roses a while ago (see previous posts) and my sister made the cala lillies. She wired them into the sprays which were attached to the cake. By the way, the cake will be travelling from Newcastle to Gretna Green for the wedding next week so we both hope it arrives in one piece!! Above is the finished cake, with sugar flower spray on the side of the bottom cakes, a small spray within the clear plastic stand, a final spray on the top cake. The bride requested very pale pink tiny sugar hearts sprinkled about the cakes. The bottom two cakes were 'stacked' with dowels in between to support the weight (my sister makes very deep, heavy rich fruit cakes and we used 5kgs of almond paste and 5kgs of sugarpaste). The top of the middle tier was dowelled to take the weight of the top tier which was placed on a clear plastic divider.
Affixing the trim around the base of each cake - not very clear as Jackie (my Sister) wasn't used to this camera
Pale pink ribbon around each cake board
A flower spray affixed within a plastic flower 'pick' to gently swirl to the bottom board
Affixing the tiny pale pink hearts which were sprinkled over all cakes
1st June to-day and it has rained for 12 hours non-stop - at least it's good for the garden!! I've been very busy hence no blogging for ages, but here are a few pics of flowers - needless to say everything is coming on a treat. I have planted out what seems like hundreds of busy lizzies in pale pink and lavender petunias - I'm going for a green, pink and lavender theme this year - however, I'm sure to have patches of yellow from perennials !! If the rain every stops I will take some photos of the bedding plants and post them next weekend
I spotted this lilly of the valley growing behind a hosta, underneath the big pink hydrangea bush - I didn't plant it, so think a bird may have dropped a seed or a tiny bulb - wherever it came from, I am certainly very pleased to have this in my garden!



The ferns which grow at the bottom of my rockery corner are now unfurling themselves for the summer. The large clumps of purple heather are now going over so I will have to clip over the plants to keep them from getting too leggy

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

that is an amazing wedding cake!

Arlene,
Silverdale flowers

Anonymous said...

The garden is loking lovely Mrs G.
Jane (Brods)

Annie said...

I love your summer garden pics as we just enter into the second day of winter over here. There was frost on the ground this morning. The cake is beautiful

Anonymous said...

The cake is beautiful! Makes me hungry too. Hope you are enjoying the spring/summer.

Sweetart said...

Hi Mary...oh wow!and wow again!you have a beautiful garden!!!!now i know
where to look when i need to do flowers or leaves,gosh and you have such a huge variety of plants!you must have a huge garden!Thank you, for the most beautiful and inspiring
blog visit i`ve had in a very long time!!!

jaki said...

Hi Mary...love that cake, what a lot of work you and your sister have put into it!!

Lovely to see your garden enjoying the warmer weather :)

J.xx