Posts Tagged ‘wedding’

Showdown: Italians vs. Twitter

July 7th, 2009 by Christina

3:56pm Dad calls me to ask if sending out Save-the-Dates for the wedding is entirely necessary, he wants to not send them at all to save money. I’m frustrated because I’ve been saying that all along but at the insistence of the family, designed them anyway.
4:10pm I call my Dad back to [...]

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For the Love of Chocolate

May 12th, 2009 by Christina

I think this calls for a day of girly baking (and writhing in sugar) followed by a chic party (I’m thinking sexy 1940’s jazz soiree!)

Orange Berry Wedding Cake

Ingredients

For THE 30cm CAKE:
1.8oz. butter, melted and cooled plus extra For greasing
8 eggs
7.1oz. caster sugar
3.5oz. ground almonds
zest 2 oranges
7.1oz. plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
For THE 20cm CAKE:
0.9oz. butter, [...]

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My Grandma bought a wedding dress…

February 18th, 2009 by Christina

for me!! It’s gorgeous, but at the risk of a certain someone accidentally seeing it ‘m not going to post pictures here. My bridesmaids picked out their dresses too, and we a have begun planning a little surprise for all of our guests This is gonna be a piece of cake.

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