{"id":48,"date":"2009-10-01T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2009-10-01T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:41:00","slug":"wedding-cake-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Cake Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutthecake.com\/177daf1f0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 431px; height: 287px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutthecake.com\/177daf1f0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutthecake.com\/round_cakes.htm\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">image source<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I love this cake. I love the look and feel of it. It&#8217;s simple and elegant and just perfect. (Well, without the sprig on top of it, that is.) If i were to have this cake for our wedding, it would be a lighter blue color. and with our own cake topper on it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in contact with a few bakeries in Las Vegas for cake quotes. Namely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrobakerylv.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Retro Bakery<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amatosbakery.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Amatos Bakery<\/span><\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedsbakery.com\/\">Freed&#8217;s Bakery<\/a>, and a few others.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest problem is the word &#8220;wedding&#8221; &#8211; as soon as i mention it, prices double or even triple. Yes, the wedding industry is lucrative, but i am on a ridiculously tiny budget! With my MBA graduation in May, Steve&#8217;s beginning grad school in August (hopefully) and a move somewhere in there, we just don&#8217;t have extra money to spare.  It&#8217;s getting frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>I asked for grocery stores and yummy cake bakeries on Twitter and got a few names. The question will be&#8230; do I really trust ordering a cake from across the country without tasting it? And do we really need a cake? Can&#8217;t we just have dessert at a restaurant after the ceremony?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image source I love this cake. I love the look and feel of it. It&#8217;s simple and elegant and just perfect. (Well, without the sprig on top of it, that is.) If i were to have this cake for our wedding, it would be a lighter blue color. and with our own cake topper on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,135,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake","category-vegas-vows","category-wedding-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}