While planning my wedding, my aunt suggested that we use a bakery that she goes to quite often, Edelweiss in Prior Lake. Given that she had recently just planned two weddings for her daughters, I took her advice.
When we went to sample the cakes, the owner, (I can't remember his name,) was very professional and discussed everything about the cakes with us. I brought a picture of what I would like and he said he could easily do it. I also made to other stipulations, the actual cake must be chocolate and the cake must be frosted with butter cream frosting and not top with whipped topping. He took down my order and took the picture I brought. He told us to pay him about a month before the wedding.
When we came back to pay, about one month later, a very unprofessional teen girl sat us down and started sampling us cake again in a way that only someone who doesn't care about you, your wedding or your cake could... very snippy. When we tried to tell her that we were not there for another cake tasting, she told us that she was told to sample us the cake. Then she stormed off. We were horrified and asked another employee to speak to the owner. He came out reassured us and told us he didn't have our order any longer and that he had to go finish up some work. The same teen girl came out to take our order... again.
I remembered everything that I wanted, my aunt also wrote everything down from the first time we ordered and we reordered. She read the order back but I still felt slightly uneasy. Our money was taken and we left. We didn't have the time to find a new baker, so it looked like we were stuck.
One month later and our wedding had gone perfectly. When we arrived at the reception I couldn't wait to see my cake, after all, the picture I had given the baker was from the Martha Wedding mag. The cake looked amazing, perfect. I had never seen butter cream frosting look so luminous. It was pretty strange but absolutely lovely. It wasn't until the cake cutting that I found that the actual cake was vanilla, a horrible blow to a chocolate lover. Then like a cruel trick, I noticed that the beautiful gleam on the cake was not brought on by some kind of baking voodoo magic that I had never heard of, but by whipped topping, the awful fad that leaves a bad taste in mouth, both figuratively and literally.
I am fortunate enough to say that this was the worst thing that happened on my wedding day, but since I was little girl, I always wanted chocolate cake. My advice to anyone who is considering Edelweiss is call every week, better yet, everyday up until your wedding to make sure that you get what you really want and my advice to the owner, get better employees, this is your livelihood, my friend.
