1 Year Anniversary Celebration

While I work out  few more kinks at MyEverydayHarmony.com, I am going to be blogging here from now on. This especially makes sense now because I have so many wedding events coming up in the next few months: showers, bachelorette parties, weddings...I will have lots to share! So be sure to keep checking here regularly for updates.

As you know, we celebrated one year of marriage on Monday! It was a major bummer to get up Monday morning and have to go to work...but since our wedding date isn't recognized as a federal holiday...off to work we went. When we came home, we exchanged cards (and Chris got me dark chocolate, yay!)

Then got to work on making our fresh ravioli from Eataly tossed in our favorite pasta topping ever. I bought a bag of dry pasta seasoning at the marketplace in Florence last year and it is absolutely the best thing ever. You just heat it up with some oil and then mix with any pasta. It's definitely one of our favorite dinners. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything else like it here, so I'll have to wait until I can go back to Florence to get more.

We also popped open a bottle of Chianti from the wine and cooking class we took in Tuscany! I have been steadily enjoying a glass with dinner each night this week. After dinner it was cake time. Awhile back, I had thought that the cake in our freezer wasn't actually our cake. Turns out what I was seeing was just the black band across the bottom and it was in fact our cake! Wahoo! We cut the cake together for old times sake:

And then we shared a piece.

I have to say...this cake held up so well! It was still really good, and didn't have freezer burn at all.

Just in case our cake was bad, and we didn't like it...I ordered a small cake from the same bakery. They make miniature wedding cakes for $8.50 for anniversaries and the cake was even cuter than I could have imagined!

Not surprisingly....we liked this fresh cake a whole lot better and pretty much demolished it after dinner with a glass of milk

I can't believe it's been a year already. I've enjoyed every minute of being married and look forward to many more anniversaries with my husband. Also in case you're wondering: so far, our second year feels a lot like the first. :)

How did/will you spend your one year anniversary?

Post-Wedding Recap: Freezing your Wedding Cake

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There are a lot of things that happen after the wedding that you don't think about until...well after the wedding. When I came home from the hotel the morning after the big day, I was suddenly faced with a couple of immediately pressing tasks before we left for our honeymoon.

Firstly, I had to pack. I hadn't even remotely packed for our honeymoon and our flight left at 7:00 that evening!  Luckily my mom and sister helped me with this, and we were done pretty quickly.

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I also had to wrap up the top layer of our wedding cake to freeze it for our one year anniversary! Storing your wedding cake, or pieces of your wedding cake needs to happen right away if you're leaving for your honeymoon. We took some time to wrap the cake in plastic wrap and foil because that was all I had on hand. I just read online that you shouldn't keep your cake on a piece of cardboard because it will dry it out even more...whoops. I clearly didn't really know the "proper" way to store a cake for a year, but here's hoping that it's still semi-good next May!

Looking at this picture now...I actually don't think this is our actual wedding cake! That looks like chocolate on the bottom there, and is that all icing on top? LOL I'm confused....

We stored it in our mini freezer where it's currently taking up way too much space. Lesson learned and advice: I WISH we had just cut 2 slices of it to save because there's no reason for us to have a whole cake to ourselves in May.

We almost had a crisis when a friend came over this summer and unplugged our mini-freezer in order to charge her phone. We noticed the freezer leaking the next day! Luckily, we caught it in time, and everything was still very frozen inside. So all was not lost!


Did/Will you be saving the top tier or pieces of your cake? If you did, was it still good one year later?

Groom Dumps Wedding Cake onto Bride's Head!

The results of Wednesday's Wedding Poll "Did/Are you change/changing your last name?"
Yes: 84%
No: 11%
Haven't Decided: 5%

Four of you said you aren't changing your name (and one of those was my mother..so three others). Thanks again to everyone who participated!

So I KNOW I said I was going to reveal my invitations today...but that is actually going to have to wait until Monday! I have soo many great posts coming up next week that I'm really excited to share with you, so hang tight!

In the meantime, you're going to have to settle for this horrific, and kinda hilarious video. If Chris does this to me on our wedding day, I will NOT handle it as welll as this woman:

Enjoy your weekend!

Cake Tasting

Wow folks, we had such a productive wedding weekend! We had our cake tasting, picked out my wedding band and narrowed down some ring options for Chris, planned our HONEYMOON, and started on some of our D-I-Y projects including our table numbers which should be done this week!!

Firstly, I'll start with our cake tasting!! We made this appointment last minute when our weekend opened up. Our venue provides the cake for us, and it's included in our package. All we had to do was set up a tasting at Jeanie's Bakery, and then let our venue know what flavors we want.

This place was adorable with a great display of cakes and desserts:

Waiting for caaaake

After we picked out which cake fillings we wanted to try, we waited for them to get the sample plate together.

 

We had both vanilla and chocolcate cake pieces with (from top right and going counter-clockwise): chocolate Moose filling, Buttercream frosting (this will be our top), chocolate pudding filling, cannoli cream filling, cookies and cream filling, and french cream filling.

2 minutes later:

Clearly, one side of the plate was favored over the other...

We liked the vanilla cake with either the cannoli cream filling, or the French Cream Filling. Both were amazing and we're a little torn. We have the option to have different fillings for the different layers, but they look so similar, it might be hard to tell them apart once it's cut. We don't have to let our venue know for another month or two, so we have time to think about it. I also think that cannoli's are served as part of our dessert anyway that night, so we might end up going with the French Cream filling for more variety. It was a quick tasting, but it was great fun for our Saturday afternoon!

I was a HAPPY CAMPER! No really, I was in such a bad mood beforehand and once we left my mood completely turned around:

As far as the look is concerned: We will have a selection of about 15-20 cake designs to chose from, since our venue is providing the cake. I haven't looked at the pictures yet, so I have no idea what the options are. If they happen to be awful, we can upgrade our cake to a different design. But honestly, I'm not going to be picky about how our cake looks, and I'm sure one of those options will be more than fine.

Still...remember those dot candies on paper when you were little? How adorable is this cake? I may not get this for my wedding...buutttt my birthday is only 11 months away!!

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For the Groom: Ghostbuster Wedding Cake

And now, the results of Wednesday's Wedding Survey:

How old were you when you first met your fiance/husband?

15 or under: 7

16-20: 12

21-25: 13

26-30: 3

30 or older: 0

So 21-25 is the most common age but only by 1 person. All in all, 16-25 is the most common...buuutt then again, that's pretty much the demographic of my readers, so this poll may be a bit skewed. Thank you so much to all who participated, and be sure to check back next Wednesday for our next poll!

I'm getting to the point where we will have to pick our wedding cake soon, both flavor and how it looks. I'm very excited for our cake tasting and I'm hoping we can schedule it soon! Anyway, during my cake search, I found this Ghostbuster wedding cake below.  Like the Transformers Ice Sculpture, if I show this to Chris, he's going to fall in love with this cake. Haha, I personally wouldn't choose this for our wedding, I think this would make a good groom's cake, if we were doing that, but we're not.

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What do you think, would you do a cake like this for your wedding? Are you doing a Groom's cake?