Final Cake Meeting

I went out and talked to my "cake lady" the other day.  That's how she signed my card at my shower =]  We finalized the design and cake flavors and got everything together that we would need.

Here was my original inspiration.  This was the sketch I came up with from looking at the picture.

We ended up changing the plans just a little.  Instead of doing ivory tiers, we decided it might look a little dirty, so the cake is going to be solid with with white-on-white designs.  The two skinny tiers are going to be "dummy cakes" so there will only be 4 edible tiers.  The top, of course, will be saved for our one year anniversary.  That one will be white with white filling.  Because I hate chocolate =]

The other three tiers will be the following flavors (I forget which goes where):
Chocolate with fudge filling
White with white filling
Lemon with raspberry mousse filling

I'm excited to taste the lemon one.  I just had a cupcake she made the other night that had the mousse filling and it was delicious!

We're doing solid black grosgrain ribbon for the bases of the tiers.  They're 1", 3/4" and 1/2" widths.  The only problem with this cake is that it's going to be huge! So I had to build a cake stand to go with it, instead of being able to just go buy one.  Look for that DIY post later on today.