Wedding Weekend

Saturday my sister in law, Shea married Kent Wade in the Rexburg Idaho temple. It was a great weekend and a cute couple. Let me recap the events for you all.Friday night we dropped the kids off at my mom's house and headed up to Idaho Falls to meet up with Tyler's family, then head on up to Rexburg, where we went through the temple with Shea. After the temple we went out for some grub at Applebee's, so much fun hanging out with Tyler's family, they are awesome.

Saturday morning we got up to get ready and I got to do the bride's hair and make up. She looked so pretty. Then we headed back over to the temple for the wedding and then pictures. It was cold, but overall a very nice day.

Tyler, Rhett, Shea, and Mac, the bride and her 3 brothers.

Tyler and Me, so much fun getting away for the weekend.

The Rexburg Temple, it is beautiful

After a luncheon in Idaho Falls we came back to Twin to get ready for the reception. I did the food and cake for it and it turned out really nice. I had a lot of fun and have stayed pretty busy the last couple of weeks. I made 430 chocolate and vanilla filled cream puffs, 330 croissant sandwiches (roast beef and cheese, turkey, ham and cheese, and then chicken salad) cake and sparkling apple punch. It was yummy and the bride picked the menu, she did well.

Platters of Cream Puffs

The mini croissant sandwiches

The fountain of apple punch

OK, so every wedding has to have a story, right, well here it is. It was about 6:55, 5 minutes before the reception was to begin and we were all doing last minute preparations. Suddenly we hear a crash, breaking glass and gasps across the room. The lattice wall set up behind the food had fallen over, onto the cake. It broke the statue Shea had chosen to place on top and smashed the back side of the top layer. I was frozen, just stared at it, wondering "Are you kidding me?" I looked over at Shea and she had tears streaming down her face, it broke my heart. I grabbed the top layer of the cake and ran into the kitchen with it, filled the now missing back half with the frosting I had brought to finish the piping upon assembly and then reconstructed it. Grabbed some flowers from the tables and the others I had already used on the cake and made a new floral topping, took it back out and Voila!, the cake was ready to go. (In case you are wondering the statue didn't break until it hit the floor, so no glass was on the cake.)

And here is the recreated cake, I didn't even get a picture of he first one. At the bride's request, this was a rainbow chip cake with rainbow chip frosting. I found hot pink, lime green and orange sprinkles (her colors) to use in the buttercream. It was really pretty and definitely fun.