Cake Lady Di

Chief petty officer cook David Avery with the royal wedding cake made for Prince Charles and Princess Diana

I’m not sure where to start exactly, except that this is kind of weird, maybe even a little gross. It reminds me of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

Apparently last week, a slice of Princess Diana’s wedding cake was auctioned off for about $1,800. For those of you who don’t know or weren’t around to remember, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married in 1981. That cake is 27 years old!

There were 23 official wedding cakes for the wedding that day and this slice is fairly large, about 9 inches, with a marzipan base. It apparently has a sugared onlay in red, blue, gold, and silver of the royal coat of arms. There is also a small silver horseshoe and leaf spray.

After 27 years, I wonder how great it actually looked since it was stored in the attic in cling wrap. Mmmm, tasty!

The slice of cake belonged to Moyra Smith. Mrs. Smith worked for Queen Elizabeth at Clarence House during the 1980s. This is what the MSNBC story states:

“When the cake arrived at Clarence House Moyra was told she could have a slice from the top tier to keep for herself,” said Diana memorabilia specialist auctioneer Chris Albury of Dominic Winter Book Auctions. “This piece is special because it was from the cake sent to the Queen Mother at Clarence House. Moyra must have been very well thought of by the Royal Family to have been given this slice from the top of the cake.”

The cake was auctioned off last Wednesday (August 27th) and the lucky bidder also got a letter from Charles and Diana thanking Mrs. Smith for a wedding gift.

This is not the first time a slice of the royal wedding cake has been sold. In 1998, a year after Princess Diana

died, a similar slice of wedding cake was sold for 17,000 pounds — about $30,000!

I knew Diana still resonated in the hearts and minds of people all over the world, even eleven years after her death, but I never knew there were pieces of her wedding cake floating around and being auctioned off! People really will buy anything.

XOXO

M, J, and S

Lifelike Wedding Cakes…Really?

Two weeks from this Saturday, my sweetie and I are going to the Sundy House (the wedding venue) for our menu tasting. I’ll definitely be posting about that event as well as our initial visit to the Sundy House which solidified it as our #1 choice for our upcoming nuptials, but for now, just a quick thought.

When we have our menu tasting, we will also be doing our cake tasting, since we’re rarely in the South Florida area; figured we’d kill two birds with one stone. (Blegh…after writing that and saying it out loud, this will be the last time I use that phrase…I like birds and don’t want to kill them.)

So, thinking about the upcoming cake tasting, I’ve been wondering what flavors, what style, and what design the cake should take. I really haven’t thought a thing about it until just the other day, really. So I did a little research online and came across this…Click the link, you know you want to.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/01/07/cake.irpt/index.html

I saw this and felt confused and a little freaked out. By the way, doesn’t the groom look a little afraid?

Who does this? Besides this couple, I mean.

I really don’t even have the words…why don’t you share yours and leave a comment here.

XOXO
M, J, and S