You Knew (H.G., S.M.)

Cake, Wine, and melt downs

Today:
-Cake Tasting
-Wine tasting
-dress fitting
-decorating
-last minute arrangements?

I'm super packed today with all of the stuff I have to do, and the wedding is in a few days. I'm a nervous wreck. The girls already have their little flower girl dresses on, they are so excited for the wedding.

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Shawn has a brief meeting today so he won't be able to try the cake or wine. Taylor, Kenny, and Cam are supposed to come over so we can drive to the hall to try to wine and cake. Chet, the baker, said that he had some "superb" cakes to try for the wedding, he said that I will adore a white chocolate cake with a touch of raspberry. Then Misty, the wine expert, thinks that I will fall in love with a semi sweet wine that will compliment a sweet cake. Cam and Taylor pulled up in Taylor's new galaxy car, got out, and both gave me a hug. Then Kenny pulled up in his car with a small bundle of roses, he got out and smiled.
He handed me the roses and gave me a hug.

"We are so proud of you!" Cam said smiling.

"Taylor," I start. He lets me go from our hug and nods.

"I know that we've been close, I mean we all are," I continue, Cam looks at me concerned.

"And I don't want to start anything between any of the guys or you two, but, I'd like for you to give me away at the wedding. Cam, I know you would but you are already Shawn's best man. I'm sorry Cam, I figured you would want to be his best man, and you can help with everything and I know everything is going to be fine." I explain. Cam nods.

"I understand." He replies. Taylor's face lights up and he smiles wide.

"I would love to." He replies. Thank goodness. We go inside the hall.

Chet puts a cake down on the table as we walk into the hall. He grins. His arms raised in the air, I'd hate to say it but he looks like the Pillsbury dough boy that ate too many cookies.

"The lovely bride!" He says greeting me, he shakes my hand firmly, a little too firmly. Then turns to the guys and smiles.

"This is Cam, the best man." I say pointing to Cam, he shakes Chet's hand.

"And Taylor, who is one of Shawn's groomsmen and he is going to give me away in place of my father." I say pointing to Taylor and Chet then shakes Taylor's hand. We first tried a raspberry cake with white icing and little fondant flowers, which was beautiful but didn't taste very well. Then, a triple chocolate cake with dark brown fondant ribbons, which was too chocolatey. Then a chocolate cake that tasted like chocolate muffins which was good, but we had to try the cake Chet was talking about before. The cake was beautiful, five tiers, white fondant icing, small edible fondant pearls around each tier, a black fondant "ribbon" and bow around the second tier and then small white fondant flowers around the cake with clusters of flowers at the top and bottom sides of the cake. We tried that cake and God it tasted wonderful, the guys wanted to eat the whole thing.

"Chet, that was divine. You were right, I do love it and I have a strong feeling that Shawn will love it too." I say and his grin spread from ear to ear.

Then came the wine tasting. First a semi sweet red wine which was horrible, and had a bad aftertaste. Even the guys didn't like it.

"I'm more of a Pepsi or Coke with a little bit of whiskey kind of guy." Taylor said which made me crack a smile. Ever since his girlfriend, Everly, drank too much whiskey and drove off a bridge causing her to go into a coma she didn't come out of, Taylor never drinks. I'm not going to pressure Taylor to drink anymore or a whole lot of any of it.

"You can sit if you want, Taylor." I say while he takes a sip of his Mountain Dew he brought with him. He shook his head,

"It's your wedding Ang, I want to be a part of the details and wedding. Just like your dad would be." He replies, I can't help but smile and walk over to him, and hug him. He was like my dad, dad didn't drink either. And Taylor is right, he would've been a part of the details.