The Wedding Cake

This past weekend Laurie and I made the most important wedding-related decision--choosing a wedding cake! No seriously! Laurie contends that a good wedding cake really isn't that important but for me it is key. While some people focus on the dresses, flowers, reception hall, dinner, etc, my focus is the cake. I always remember whether or not the cake was good at weddings. Is anybody else like this?

Anyway, on Saturday we went to Paielli's--a local Kenosha bakery--to find a cake. Like most other couples we looked through some pictures to determine what we wanted our cake to look like. Surprising we both liked the same type of cake--a traditional three-tier cake. The baker we met with also had three mini-cakes for us to sample--something Laurie had arranged beforehand. The three types included carrot cake, chocolate cake with a raspberry filling, and yellow cake with raspberry and buttercream frosting mixed together as a filling.

Rather than digging in ourselves we decided to take the cakes home to Laurie's family for the true test. After much taste-testing from multiple members of the Herzog, Saladis, and Murphy families, first place went to the carrot cake (which was rated as "breathtaking"), second place went to the yellow cake (which was rated as "sensational"), and third place went to the chocolate cake (my personal favorite). Since Laurie and I don't like to discriminate--and since all three tasted so good--we decided the we would go with all three flavors--one on each layer. What a deal! We even had enough leftovers of the sample cake for Jack--Laurie's dad--to have cake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner over the next week. [For those of you that don't know, Laurie's dad can go through some serious cake--or any other sweets for that matter.]

So...with the biggest decision behind us I declare we are finally ready to get married!!! Oh...and by the way...if you don't like our wedding cake pretend that you do or just tell Laurie! Until next time...

Which of our cake flavors is your favorite?
	Carrot
	Chocolate with Raspberry
	Yellow with Raspberry/Buttercream
	I don't like cake!
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(Thanks Brian - 'Life of Dad' - for the polling idea!!)