Omg I'm I The Only One That Hates This???
Decorating By pinkbiz Updated 13 Apr 2013 , 3:23pm by kikiandkyle
Yep I like basketweave too. And I actually love that blue fountain and staircase on here. But then there are some really crazy ones on here too. lol!
This is a great thread....I had to chime in.
I can't say that I hate the stair/fountain cakes. They brought in quite a bit of money while the style was popular. Amazingly enough, I get an order for this arrangement at least once a year and if that's what the bride wants, it's what the bride gets. It's her day and I will do whatever I can to make sure she is happy. I have the same pride in doing the stairs/fountain cake as I do the more modern cakes. I even posted a stair/fountain cake in my pics. I would like to add that I do prefer creating newer styles.
The orange color scheme cake is my own. My sister and I did it together back in 1987. The other cake is one that I did about a year ago.
Everything from the 80's was just awful. You see 60's and 70's fashion and culture being revitalized all the time, but never 80's. What were we thinking?
Everything from the 80's was just awful. You see 60's and 70's fashion and culture being revitalized all the time, but never 80's. What were we thinking?
The 80s have made a comeback in the fashion-sense over the past 3 years. My baby sister wears quite a bit of it and has been to some "80s" parties. LOL She's asked me for some advice. I didn't know whether to be flattered or embarrassed.
Now, I will always love 80s music!
GRAMI - I love you since you love Sophia! LOL I love the Golden Girls. And that pic of you and your husband is adorable.
Ironbaker wrote:
"GRAMI - I love you since you love Sophia! LOL I love the Golden Girls. And that pic of you and your husband is adorable.
Thanks & back attcha Toots!
My dad offered us $500 & a good extension ladder if we'd elope but my MIL wanted a wedding....
LOL! My dad offered me $500 to elope and $1000 not to come back! But I insisted on a wedding. And he laughed every time I told him how much money I had "saved" him everytime I bought something. Actually, my dress was only $400. A mere pittance compared to what so many others spend! Again...it didn't cost him $400, it saved him hundreds!
I just went to a wedding where the groom's mother made the cake. She did a pretty good job, having been out of practice since the 80's. But they did the whole foutain/stairs & satellite cakes look. You'd think it was bad enough BUT...they dyed the water in the fountain blood red. Everyone asked if it was a wedding or a massacre.
Ewwww!! Makes you wonder where that marriage is headed.
This was my wedding cake so I guess that means you know where we are heading??? Just because people choose a different path from the rest of the herd it doesn't mean there is something wrong with us!
This has been so much fun to read! Here's mine. We were married in 2000. It was August and the church gym had no AC. We are still the only wedding I have been to with a centerpiece cake on each table. My bridesmaids' dresses aren't really dated (yet), so I didn't give you a picture of them. I wasn't into cakes then, so I didn't put much thought into planning mine except that I wanted a cake on each table. They were 2-layer 8" rounds. The three tier job was all cake so we had WAY too much cake. I especially love the silk ivy leaves.....NOT!!
For some reason, the first pic looks really small on my screen. I hope it comes through for you.
Kim wrote:
Actually, my dress was only $400. A mere pittance compared to what so many others spend!
Oh Lawzy! Mi\\y dress cost a whole $75 as it was on clearance... regularly $125. My dress, veil & shoes all came to no more than $150 & toss in another $50 for ALL the flowers in our wedding. The cake was around $50 - $75 as well... ain't that a kicker?
Jammjenks,
I love your tiered cake. The ivy is so pretty. Is it piped on and if so how?
Jammjenks,
I love your tiered cake. The ivy is so pretty. Is it piped on and if so how?
No, the ivy leaves are from silk ivory vines bought at the craft store. I wish they had been piped.
Has anyone looked in the La Quinceanera files lately? About half the cakes in there are stairs and/or fountains. Are they just out of style for weddings or for everything?
Since everyone else is sharing their stories here is mine:
I must confess when I got married back in 88 I too had to have the fountain cake. I saw them delivering it just as I started to walk down the isle. (Wasnât nervous until then) It was real pretty with blue flowers down the sides and cupids on the pillars, I hated my cake top but couldn't find one in such a small town. The cake was dryer then saw dust! The groomâs cake was just standard chocolate with sugared grapes. It tasted good so everyone ate All of it. I had never heard of a groomâs cake before. I thought it was just something done in the South. We got married in my hubbys's home town. A tiny town in Ga. with one blinking stop light in the center. The groom was stationed in Guam, and I was in England with my parents so much of the wedding planning was done through letters and a few phone calls. When I asked where to send the wedding invites I was just told to write the name and town and they all got delivered. We got married a week after Valentine's Day and were told by both the bakery and florist that they were just going to be too busy but would try to fit us in. There was no one else in town. We did all the food ourselves. My husband-to=be ex-girlfriend's mom took in my wedding dress (barrowed from a fellow classmate in Ca.) and who ever fit in the bridesmaids dresses (also barrowed from the school I volenteerd at in England) were in the wedding party. Neither was old enough to sign as a witness to the wedding. There was one store in town that had pictures of all the engaged cupples on tables. To register you just picked out what you wanted and set it on the table. Over all the entire sitution was kind of sad. I did have two firends who were suppose to stand up with me but one in Fl. was 8 months pregent and the other's parents decided to split up and she couldn't make it. If I knew then what I know now we could have done it so much better and just as cheep. I think the entire wedding ended up being around $500. We had about 50-75 people from his church show up. No one would sell us a car since we were moving to Wa. so two days after the wedding we took a 36 hour bus ride to our new home, with a cooler of left over wedding food at our feet. What a way to start a marriage.
But it sounds to me like you're still married! I think that if two people really love each other, getting married is more important than the wedding itself. Not that people with big weddings can't be in love. But, I know a lot of couples around here who have spent $20 - $30,000 or more on their wedding and their marriage didn't last 6 months.
We had a tight budget, had to convince the venue to allow us to rent the place without them doing the catering (around here if you rent the venue, you have to let them do the catering). I paid $250 for a cake, which I thought was a lot. We prepared all the food and my dad provided the beer. If you wanted liquor, there was a cash bar. No honeymoon, just a night in the Presidential Suite at the Hilton 20 miles away.
But after 19 years, we're still married, have two beautiful daughters and have finally purchased a home. We got married because we loved each other and we still do (most of the time )
"Don't be hating on my basketweave!"
I just finished a birthday cake tonight for my girlfriend and I thought it would complement the bright flowers. And, believe it or not, my girlfriends are BLOWN AWAY when they see basketweave because they have no idea how it is done. So, when I uncover that cake at lunch on Tuesday, they will "Ooh" and "Aah" and my head will swell until I feel I can't hold it up...And this is the first time I try basketweave after my Wilton course a couple of months ago, so I'm not that great at it (had to take out the book to remember how to get started)!
Man, I love having friends who are easily impressed! LOL!!!
I'll post it in my CC pics.
I just went to a wedding where the groom's mother made the cake. She did a pretty good job, having been out of practice since the 80's. But they did the whole foutain/stairs & satellite cakes look. You'd think it was bad enough BUT...they dyed the water in the fountain blood red. Everyone asked if it was a wedding or a massacre.
Ewwww!! Makes you wonder where that marriage is headed.
This was my wedding cake so I guess that means you know where we are heading??? Just because people choose a different path from the rest of the herd it doesn't mean there is something wrong with us!
See, I think YOUR cake has an actual THEME going on that WORKS with the red! I like it, "Till Death Do Us Part"... Heh, AWESOME... The randomly red fountain would just be out of place creepy, but you had a LOT of red going on, so it worked!
I don't think it is "elegant" enough for many brides. They want the swirls these days!
I think the dots/scrolls that are so "in" today are very, very plain looking!
I do a lot of basketweave. Had one decorator suggeset that I remove "all" of my basketweave "...because brides are just not ordering those anymore." Huh..... glad I didn't tell that to my brides who ordered those basketweave cakes!
Do you dislike them, period? Or you dislike them at weddings?
Now that I think about it, that would be fun! A full decolletage and a pregnant belly draped in white lace with two hands holding a floral bouquet beneath it.
I wonder if it has ever been done?
Now that I think about it, that would be fun! A full decolletage and a pregnant belly draped in white lace with two hands holding a floral bouquet beneath it.
I wonder if it has ever been done?
HA! With a shotgun-shaped cake for the groom!!!! Hilarious!
This thread is a hoot ladies! Loving the pics and bravery! Heck, get all those nice pictures taken, you should show them off! More please!!
Sorry I can't share....(not getting married til Oct.) but I remember being at a few weddings as a child and seeing the stairs and eating the sugar birds and bells! I thought they were neat then!
Oh, and I like basketweave too! Sometimes it can look heavy, but done well it looks nice! I have a cake I do with brown basketweave and the top of the cake is covered in upside down fresh raspberries filled with liqueur.
Fun thread!
indydebi - well said - of course the fountains and stairs look stupid now! I was married in 1979 - big dress with a hoop under it, hat instead of veil, fountain wedding cake. It all looks crazy now but it was beautiful and stylish then. (I won't even mention the tuxes the men wore.) The same will be said 20 years from now of the current trends.
OK, Here is my cake and dress (shutter). I actually love my cake even though it is a blue fountain. LOL. These are from 12 years ago, and yes, he totally missed my mouth. The dress has more beads than material. LOL. It was the first dress I tried on. Had a train a mile long and NOONE could figure out how to pin it up correctly after the cerimony...but we did know the buttons for it was behind the HUGE bow on my butt. LOL. I had nothing to do with the cake design, just went and told her the color and told her to do what she wanted. I do remember her suggesting the fountain and agreeing to it though. LOL. I still have the dress too. I don't think my girls will end up wearing it though.LOL
WOW, 12 pages in this thread and no one has said they like fountains.
Well, I will!
I love fountains. I think that with subdued lighting and candles & fresh flowers on the cake table, a fountain looks quite romantic and lovely. I did this cake just a couple of years ago and I thought it was quite beautiful.
To each his own!
~ Sherri
I will admit my wedding cake had a fountain and some stairs too. I'll have to dig up some pics of it. I really liked it then but not really a fan of it now. I do like basketweave.
Cakepro,
I didn't think I liked fountains anymore until I saw your picture but I thought it was romantic and beautiful.
I guess if the cake has an updated look, the fountain can be "updated" also.
Amy
I got married in 1992 and I had been "doing" cakes for about 2 years but knew that I didn't want to make mine. The big fountains and satellite cakes were all the rage but I knew that wasn't what I wanted. I had a 3 tiered, stacked cake covered in cornelli lace and the topper was actually the bouquet that I tossed to the single woman (there was only 1 single woman there. ). We actually had way too much cake because we have a small wedding but I wouldn't have had it any other way. It was simple but perfect for us.
Actually, I had made a similar wedding cake only with 4 tiers for a co-worker so I knew what it would look like and had already decided that was what I wanted with just a few real flowers around and the florist came up with the idea for the bouqet topper. It looked nice, worked well and saved me a little money.
I would like a fountain if I could do that blood-red someone mentioned! That sounds fun and would be kinda shocking to some (and I like doing that! )
This from a lady who made an armadillo groom's cake that poured "blood" from the neck when the groom chopped off the head!
I was just in love with the "Til Death Do Us Part" cake a few pages ago! Great! Will be showing that to the future hubby for ideas!
Did that groom get married in the "evil inside" tee-shirt? Awesome.
OK, so maybe my answer came out wrong.
The fountains when done in a romantic, modern setting, I can handle. The plastic stairs (especially when lined with bridesmaids), not so much.
But I still LOVE basketweave.
That's my answer and I'm stickin' to it.
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