A Home for My Cupcakes

I'm not a big cake person. (I'll pause here so you can gasp in shock.) I don't know what it is, but cake has never been my favorite dessert. I LOVE anything chocolate, and I have a mean sweet tooth, but cake just never did it for me. So I decided to have cupcakes instead of cake at my wedding. I'm even going to have a giant cupcake so that we can have a cupcake-cutting ceremony--and because the idea of a giant cupcake just makes me smile.

Check out this beautilicious giant wedding cupcake I found here.

On my hunt for the best "cupcake dealer" out there, I came to the realization that the markup on dessert for weddings is ridiculous. I mean, $4 for each cupcake? (Yes, I did come across a place that charged that.) At 200 guests--that's going to almost double the cost for food! Upon this discovery, I decided we should not have cupcakes at our wedding--one giant cupcake, yes; but cupcakes for everyone, no.

I was okay with this decision. Then one day at a bridal expo in town, we passed a cake vendor's table, and they had a nice spread of different flavored pieces of cake and a plethora of frosting choices to sample. I would have walked on by, but my future mother-in-law was on the hunt for a good cupcake vendor for her own daughter's wedding (my future sister-in-law is getting married a couple months after us...let the parties begin!).

So we stopped to take a look at this vendor's table. Tyler took this opportunity to grab a sample of chocolate cake with coffee frosting. It was love at first bite for him. And since we had to test out some of their other flavors, I tried a piece of white (is that a flavor?) cake with champagne frosting. Wow. These people don't mess around! The best part? They are reasonably priced! Needless to say, I left that bridal expo excited like a kid on Christmas Eve. I will have my cupcakes after all--and they'll be delicious!

Okay, this whole back story leads me to my purchase this weekend at World Market (love that place). This adorable cupcake stand was on sale for $9.99--and I had to buy something.

                                               

It won't hold all of the cupcakes I plan to have, but it will add some serious adorableness to my dessert table.