Initial Discomfort
July 19, 2017 Monograms can add that perfect crowning touch of elegance to your wedding cake.
Or, they can look like this:
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Proof that sometimes it's better to quit before letting your five-year-old write on the cake.
Still, it could be worse.
The monogram could match the rest of the cake:
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Hey, it's not easy to make tinfoil look this good.
If you do find a mistake in your cake's monogram, don't panic. There are plenty of seamless ways for your baker to fix the error.
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This isn't one of them.
Now, I'm all for sharing new words, broadening folks' horizons, furthering education, etc, but if you have to explain to the baker of your wedding cake what a monogram is - a "T, J, and H" put together, for example - then maybe, just maybe, a few alarm bells should go off.
Or I suppose you could just take your chances.
After all, what could go wrong?
Heh.
Aheh.
Heh.
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At least the quotes add a little something "extra."
Thanks to today's wedding wreckporters Anony M., Hilary R., Cyndi P., & Cyndee M., who think all bakers should be required to ask, "Can I quote you on that?"
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Reader Comments (19)
I'm not understanding what's wrecked with the "B" monogram cake. It looks very nice. Can some one please explain what I could be missing?
The flowers on that yellow cake were an unfortunate choice. They resemble nothing so much as sliced bananas!
Lori- the "B" monogram looks like that ovalish piece-I don't even know what to call it- was added to cover up something wrong underneath it. Maybe it was meant to look like a nameplate, but it just looks like an error was fixed. Otherwise, the B is rather nice!
Lady Anne -that's just what I thought too. I wondered if it was a munchies cake since their initials THC also stand for Tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical compound in pot. A cake with banana flowers would probably just fit the bill. :-P
Other than the spacing being off on the "K OS"....... It's fi--- oh, wait...has the decoration turned a "Havisham" mold green, or is it me?
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Lori, the baker stuck a piece of fondant with the fixed monogram over the mistake. Methinks it is more noticeable in person.
Took me a minute to realize it myself.
Was the B cake supposed to be B& someone? And then someone called off the wedding at the last minute but B said to hell with this I'm still gonna have my cake AND eat it???
I would be afraid to eat a cake that said "THC" without a designated ride home. Don't get stoned on wedding cake and drive, people. But, I guess, at least it's clearly labled?
Glad I'm not the only one who went immediately to the THC cake and thought "hm. Maybe a monogram isn't the best choice in that circumstance?"
The second one resembles a family plot tombstone!
If you enlarge the picture you can see that is a cut out just stuck on top of the cake.
The tragedy of the first cake is that before the 5-year-old wrote on it, it was lovely.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the "THC" cake and thought, "Oh, dear, they didn't think that one all the way through."
@sendingtheclowns: The term "Havisham mold green" is nothing short of genius. It tickles my old Goth heart, and I plan on appropriating/stealing it as brazenly as I do everything else in life. Cheers!
Your Pal,
Storm
Oh man those quotes add something to that last cake alright lol. Something horrible but maybe just turn the cake the other way and no one will notice?
In every case, if the monogram were executed better, they would be very nice amateur cakes. And I think the "B" cake is not that obvious. Practice your lettering bakers, over and over and over...
Can I admit that I didn't see too much wrong with the second and third cakes? Especially the third until someone pointed it out? (what's wrong with the second cake? The inscription doesn't match the rest of the cake?)
Nathan R. -- the second cake has layers that aren't squared off (the top two layers drooped on the edges), the third layer from the top isn't fully frosted, the draping is unevenly draped, the frosting or fondant looks kind of melty all over, and the bottom layer's treatment is unprofessional and strangely pinchy looking and there is at least one bare spot in the third layer. Just my two cents.
Aside from the actual KOS initials, I"d happily have that cake at my wedding. It looks really nice (to me). I also plan to have that kind of blue hydrangeas so that's perfect!