A Cinderella Story
April 29, 2011 With all the royal wedding coverage out there, a lot of us girls have been spending this week imagining our own Princess Diaries moment.
Now, I don't know about you guys, but mine goes a little something... like this...
(Awww yeeeeah.)
Next, we sink straight into the Fire Swamp.
No, no, just kidding.Next we play BioShock together until 2AM.
Later, after dressing up as Venkman and Staypuft for Halloween (I'm Venkman, of course), and confessing our undying love for one another, there's a painfully romantic proposal:
Performed in an inflatable kiddie pool."Jen," my dashing prince would say, "Will you be my own Princess Peach?"
To which I would respond, "Are you kidding? Do Vulcans need the Pon Farr?
"(But we are going to Disney for the honeymoon, right?)"
And, BAM! I'm a princess! Next thing you know, I'm living in a castle...
"And over here is your TARDIS closet. As you can see, it is much, MUCH bigger on the inside."
(Modeled after crabby Space Invaders, apparently.)
("Talk about your trunk space, check this action out!")
(Ok, technically this would be a Princess Harley.)...and...and...wait. You know what? Other than the castle and crown stuff, I've already got my fairy tale ending, complete with BioShock playing, Princess Bride quoting, brownie baking prince. (Love you, Sweetie.)
So I guess I'll just end here by wishing all of you:
Reader Comments (77)
Twu wuv...
I want a TARDIS closet!
oh, and awesome post as usual
I don't know if it's my lack of sleep last night or what, but this post definitely had me laughing out loud for real. I'm sure my colleague in the next cube over thought I'd lost it.
It was the crown and the dress that really got me going.
Thank you!
The British Monarchy apparently has a Flickr stream. They also have pictures of the wedding cake and McVities Groom Cake. Take a gander at what are sure to be the most Wrecked cake copies in the coming year or two:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmonarchy/
The thought of all that frosting makes me want to puke a little... >.<
OOOH Jen! Your crown and dress are sooooo pretty. I'm tearing up.
Take good care of your fairytail!
Mawage is what bwings us togethaar today...
wv: susions- a blessed union between to Sues (not that there's anything wrong with that.)
I don't have much to say (having been up since 4 AM watching said wedding), but my WV is too good to pass up - "buripie"!
YAY FOR ALADDIN QUOTES!!!!!
I just love that in one post you combined:
1) Firefly (or Castle)
2) Three Musketeers
3) Princess Bride
4) Ghostbusters
5) Super Mario Bros.
6) Star Trek
7) Dr. Who
8) Spaceballs
and Bioshock.
You are a female geek after my own heart. (And my fiance would be so proud!)
Too bad about that last one...so. close.
are those pancakes on the Belle cake?
I'm glad at least one other person got the Spaceballs allusion.
Aladdin! and the princess bride!
So, John's no Prince Valium, then? :)
Ditto what Historian said. I'm so impressed by all the references and digging deep for the Spaceballs one!
What girl doesn't dream of Pokemon headwear and artichoke dresses?
If my other half started acting like Venkman I'd have to smack him upside the head. :P
@Fran Those do look like pancakes on the Belle cake, don't they? o.O
Ah, the bonds of holy MOLY!
I spy with my little eye some icing smears that look like bullet holes on that Princess Harley cake... I also like how, because it is a combined cake for Jeffrey and Sarah, the wreckerator split it down the not-quite-center with that red and blue piping.
Thanks for the laughs, Jen!
Kimmery
P.S. Here's your sound effect!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ-SMsaYZuM
It's a harp, but some royalty might indeed prefer the harpsichord. It has a lovely sound too!
Great post! My boyfriend once sent me a text saying he'd fight through all the levels of Mario and defeat Bowser to save me. It was the most romantic thing I'd ever heard. Geek love FTW! Maybe one day we'll have our very own fairytail wedding.
And yes, I'd like a TARDIS closet. Or possibly a TARDIS house.
My friend just sent me an email with pics of the Royal Wedding and mentioned how it was a fairytail wedding. Nice timing!
Also, that dress looks like a giant artichoke. That is NOT the flavor I want to think of when digging into a cake, eww.
Bahahaha - LOVE the Spaceballs reference. Having been up since the wee hours watching "the" wedding, I was actually quite a bit past that part of the post when I got it. But, I got it!
P.S. I'm too tired to think up something pithy like Chaucher would, by my wv is "gasinar." Maybe someone else can be pithy for me? There's gotta be something in there!
I just can't see a crown in that yellow one. It looks like a dead sheep with its oddly-arranged legs in the air.
Belle's dress looks to me like it's made of tree fungus - right color and everything. Now, as much as I love mushrooms, not sure I want a cake made of them! Then again, that might be one "special" cake!
Tardis closet...you're my hero
I'm sorry - I must protest against crossing Nathan Fillion with ANYONE. He is so yummy all by himself.
That being said, excellent post.
Jeffrey and Sarah's cake appears to be backwards unless Jeffrey's the one into princesses and Sarah's into motorcycles (not that that would be wrong!)
Fairytails, indeed.
I have nothing clever to say, other than a nod to the word verification.
havic - I don't need to add anything. This is Cake Wrecks, after all.
This morning, while Twitstalking FedCon XX
http://www.fedcon.de/
for Richard Dean Anderson stuff, I saw someone actually HAS a Tardis closet!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.444688787988.236924.573012988&l=b9fbd5e918
It belongs to this guy, who designed this T-Shirt Wil Wheaton was wearing
http://www.teefury.com/archive/1173/The_Gallifrey_Road/
I'll never understand why twins should have to share a birthday cake. (Tough enough to have to share your birthday when you're a kid!) I have twin daughters and as far as I'm concerned, the more cake the better!
Is the castle cake a wedding cake? It looks like a wedding cake (going by the cutlery on the table). And the Bride and Groom topper is a pair of dragons. The idea is cute, the execution, not so much.
All I could think of when I saw the first two was "Dear God, what is that thing?!"
Hee! Kiddie pool! Hee!
I was thinking pasta on that dress cake... but after reading the comments I am switching to artichoke. The color and all...
WV - skienyab: After eating Belle all by myself, I'll never achieve that skienyab.
Blech! So... Much... Babypoop... Yellow... Icing!!!!
LOL!
I should make the crown one for the lady who always comes in and wants a crown on a cake, which since we don't have any crowns I always have to say no. Maybe that cake would put an end to her asking for crown cakes...
Would it be too creepy if, in my first official comment on Cake Wrecks, I told you that I'm so impressed you managed to fit all of those amazing references into one super hilarious post that I'm convinced we need to be BFF's and buy matching Princess Vespas and hang out all day, every day? Yes? Too creepy? Okay then. Good to know.
wv: polike. Minding your manners with someone you're especially fond of.
My daughter (6 yrs) saw the first cake and asked "Did they use cauliflower? or is that frosting?"
Bell so looks like a tree trunk covered in fungus!
~Mikey @ Shabby French Cottage
www.shabbyfrenchcottage.com
I almost missed the misspelling of the last cake! I want the space-invader crown and maybe I can marry Darth Vader and we will live happily ever after, in a galaxy far, far away!
I am very glad to see that Wills and Kate's wedding cake is not a wreck! Pics are up on their flickr page! :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmonarchy/sets/72157626482739185/with/5669096457/
#1 Serving this must have resulted in a mess of epic proportions. It seems that the whole concept of the CCC (retentively equal servings, no cutting required, etc) is being gradually buried under amounts of frosting that must soon exceed the weight of the universe.
#2 Ditto #1. "Psst! It's 'Jake', not JaK!" "No problem, I can fix it!"
Do I detect an Emeril reference in the segue to #3?
#4 If the wreckerator had spent just a little more time on it (or some, anyway)...
#5 The artichoke theory isn't bad, but these are lily pads. With pink...blobs. Or split pea soup. With pink blobs.
#6 How cool that Jeffrey and Sarah shared a birthday and were able to be married that day!
#7 Aaand cue Jimmy Durante. I was wondering what today's soundtrack was going to be. (I propose the construction of an Earworm Shelter next to the Bunker(TM). Is there a second?)
When I first scrolled down, I only caught the upper half of the Princess Belle cake and was like this isn't that bad....then I scrolled down. It's like someone made her dress out of balogna meat petals. 0_0
I love fairy tails...
Oh, dear godmother! The last cake is actually quite pretty and sweet. And sullied by poor spelling. What a crying shame.
That crabby crown cracks me up.
Loloololol
I have a six-hoop hoop-skirt, and terrifyingly enough, that Belle skirt is about proportionally correct.
Princess Bride AND Doctor Who references in the same post? My day has officially been made. Thanks, Jen. :)
Aladdin quote with Belle picture?! What are you trying to do?!? *brain asplode*
Hellooooooooooooooo the Princess "dress" has to be that full to cover the fairytail...geez...
Love Love Love me some Princess Bride...may have to go home and watch that instead of the DVR'd wedding....
That link for Wills and Kate's official cake led to Page Not Found.
All those millions of people must have eaten every last crumb right down to the digital photos.
I didn't know fairies had tails, but maybe they do in fairy tails.
LOL, awsome post. I'm loving all your nerdiness here. Princess Bride, Star Trek... <3
That crown though... haha, you know what it actually reminds me of? A headcrab from Half Life.
-Meggie O
I'm living my fairytale too (no fluffy tails here). Hubby and I have "as you wish" inscribed in our wedding bands, we went to WDW for our honeymoon, and we loved playing Bioshock together (I'm the only one who screamed from time to time). We started playing games with things like Myst and Riven.