wedding bells ringing at home
sweet looking cupcakes from carnival & co. in assorted flavours - chocolate, lavender, strawberry and vanilla, 30 boxes in all. these were meant for mainly friends and relatives, the relatives were given traditional cakes instead. they also ordered 60 more cupcakes for the tea ceremony and solemisation events, to display them as mini cupcake towers, think it's going to be so sweet! since having a real tier wedding cake is so expensive, i guess having a real cupcake tower is a good alternative, and better still if it's homemade (rather, self-made) and decorated with fresh white and pink flowers....ahhhh, sweet.
anyway, i'm not going to be too ambitious, probably for the guo da li* next sunday, i'll opt for just one batch of either chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting, or apple banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. chocolate will probably be more popular, especially with the kids. wish me luck! :P anyway, there's lots to eat that day, mum already ordered buffet lunch from neo garden to feed an army of 50, and if she's crazy enough, she might just decide to make another huge pot of chicken curry. :S
*taken from wikipedia:
In Chinese culture, an auspicious date is selected to 'Ti Qin' (literally meaning 'propose marriage'), where both families will meet to discuss the amount of the bride price demanded, among other things. A couple of weeks before the actual wedding, the ritual of 'Guo Da Li' (literally meaning 'performing the rites') takes place (on an auspicious date of course). The groom and a matchmaker will visit the bride's family bearing gifts like wedding cakes, sweetmeats and jewelry as well as the bride price. On the actual wedding day, the bride's family will return a portion of the bride price (sometimes in the form of dowry) as a goodwill gesture.
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sweet looking cupcakes from carnival & co. in assorted flavours - chocolate, lavender, strawberry and vanilla, 30 boxes in all. these were meant for mainly friends and relatives, the relatives were given traditional cakes instead. they also ordered 60 more cupcakes for the tea ceremony and solemisation events, to display them as mini cupcake towers, think it's going to be so sweet! since having a real tier wedding cake is so expensive, i guess having a real cupcake tower is a good alternative, and better still if it's homemade (rather, self-made) and decorated with fresh white and pink flowers....ahhhh, sweet.
anyway, i'm not going to be too ambitious, probably for the guo da li* next sunday, i'll opt for just one batch of either chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting, or apple banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. chocolate will probably be more popular, especially with the kids. wish me luck! :P anyway, there's lots to eat that day, mum already ordered buffet lunch from neo garden to feed an army of 50, and if she's crazy enough, she might just decide to make another huge pot of chicken curry. :S
*taken from wikipedia:
In Chinese culture, an auspicious date is selected to 'Ti Qin' (literally meaning 'propose marriage'), where both families will meet to discuss the amount of the bride price demanded, among other things. A couple of weeks before the actual wedding, the ritual of 'Guo Da Li' (literally meaning 'performing the rites') takes place (on an auspicious date of course). The groom and a matchmaker will visit the bride's family bearing gifts like wedding cakes, sweetmeats and jewelry as well as the bride price. On the actual wedding day, the bride's family will return a portion of the bride price (sometimes in the form of dowry) as a goodwill gesture.