So here it is, after months of designing and agonising over the fact the little flowers on top kept losing petals.
The top tier is daisy and blossom flowers cut with plungers from tylo hardened fondant icing, brushed with ivory/gold lustre to make it sparkle(it looked a bit like pollen actually) with ivory dragees (silver balls to you and me) in the centres. This bit took the longest because of the fail rate of the flowers, and having to learn how to mix up the special edible glue and stuff.
The middle tier is buttercream icing that I coloured and textured by adding in coarse brown sugar, which worked really nicely, despite the women in the cake shop insisting that it was a silly idea. Pah! I say unto them, pah!
The bottom layer just has a ribbon round it. I spent ages thinking of stamping flower shapes of sprinkling it with lustre but in the end I decided not to risk going over the top.
It was very nerve racking to have it driven over the ford and up the track to Townfield Barn where the wedding was. The flowers were done by another sister, the Talker for the Smiley one's wedding. The flowers were all kinds of fancy in purple and green but my favourites were the simple Ikea jugs of sweet peas. I love sweet peas and she had found ones in beautiful colours.
It was nice that we put the wedding together as a family the day before. It felt much more 'us' than a do in a hotel. We're the type of people who are more comfortable in a field and up ladders I guess.
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