Melissa and Dillon's Wedding Cake

Melissa used to be a co-worker of Mr. T's. She was an amazing help when Miss E was born. She even took me to renew my G1 (learner's permit for driving) so that I would finally get my license when Miss E was a few months old. So, when she asked me to make her wedding cake I was very excited!

This three tiered cake had a 10" vanilla with salted caramel filling, an 8" cookies and cream with buttercream filling and a 6" chocolate with chocolate fudge filling tier. All covered in buttercream icing.

Our friend Liz was visiting this weekend and while I was making the cake she kindly picked out the silk flowers from Michael's to add to the cake. She has awesome taste. :)

For the topper I made it using my Cricut Air machine and cutting out "love" 3 times and gluing the layers together and then onto a skewer.

Originally the plan was to have the verse from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 written around the bottom tier. Unfortunately with the humidity it would have bled and smudged. It wouldn't have been pretty! Instead I printed it off and laminated the paper then cut it in a 1/2 strip to go around the cake board. I love how it turned out and will definitely use this technique again.

To go along with the cake I made mini cupcakes and some gluten free vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing.

Congratulations Melissa and Dillon!

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