Love is Where We Are: Cake and Such

Our wedding budget revolved around making enough room for food. We chose our venue based on their catering. I wanted our wedding to have an incredible seated lunch, decadent cupcakes for dessert, and a tasty candy buffet to serve as favors. Unfortunately, among our two photographers and all of our guest photos, I have yet to find any pictures of our lunch. The good news is that I have pictures of the rest of the food! First, this is what our tables looked like sans food...that is, here are our lovely centerpieces.

Some of our tables had this centerpiece: a mint julep cup filled with cotton blooms, white hydrangeas, white garden roses, yellow garden roses, and blue thistles.

The rest of our tables had this centerpiece: a vintage blue mason jar filled with white hydrangea, cotton blooms, fiddlehead ferns, and green hypericum berries.


Our grooms cake was Knightro, UCF's mascot.

Our "cake" was a cupcake tree filled with strawberry, margarita, and red velvet cupcakes. The top tier of the tree was a strawberry cake. Rather than using a cake topper, each cupcake had a little pinwheel to indicate which flavor they were.

Our desserts were served family style (despite some initial arguing), so our cake display included a key to guide our guests in choosing their cake flavor.

Here's another thing I didn't realize about wedding receptions: cake cutting is difficult! First, we had to come up with a plan.

Then, we cut a sliver that ended up being ridiculously small...

...but, we enjoyed it anyway.

The final item on our menu was our candy buffet. You can read all about the breakdown here. We ended up with the perfect amount of candy. There was enough for everyone and just a tiny bit leftover (which quickly got consumed on the drive to our honeymoon destination).

It was really fun to get to watch everyone enjoy our candy buffet.

What snacks are you most looking forward to on your wedding day?


Catch up on the Lioness recaps here!

• First, we got ready at my apartment.
• Then, we finished getting ready at the venue.
• The boys got ready and posed for pictures.
• We exchanged gifts.
• The girls posed for pictures.
• I admired every little detail.
• We walked down the aisle.
• We got married.
• We had some alone time.
• We posed for photos with family.
• We posed for photos together.
• Of course, we took a few goofy pictures.
• We had our first dance.
• I danced with my dad, and Mr. Lion danced with his mom.

*All photos by H. Photography unless otherwise noted.