2 days...

...and 48 hours from now we will be dancing at the reception. 

It's just getting from here to there - from now to then - from planning to doing - from vision to execution - and keeping it all in perspective - keeping the main thing the main thing which is S&K get married.

The layers are thawed...

...and most are stacked and trimmed and crumb coated.   

I think I may be tired and not able to form really good thoughts, so I think I'll just post a few pics and let them do the talking for me.  I may not get to post again tomorrow since it'll be Wedding Eve, but I will do my best to post pics of the final finished cakes as well as the bride, the wedding, the reception over the next few days.  

Crumb coated base of wedding cake

Crumb coat before smoothing

Crumb coat after smoothing (see the difference?)

Wait - I have to say one thing before I close.  These are my 2 favorite fondant geniuses ever!  And may be my 2 favorite people for today.  These 2 fondant geniuses spent an hour - yes, you read that right - an hour between the two of them needing WHITE white chocolate marshmallow fondant into BLACK white chocolate marshmallow fondant.  That is an AMAZING feat and a HUGE help to me.  If you have ever spent 5 minutes kneading fondant, you can appreciate the muscle and humor and sheer love for bride and groom (or self...I suppose, since one of the people in this picture IS said groom!) it took to do this.

Random thoughts since I'm tired.  My son, D, flew home from CA today, and then he and S&K went out for a white shirt and black shoes for him to wear.  We (not my son, D, but we as in bride, MOTB, MOH and GMOTB) went for manis and pedis today and for the first time in my life, I can honestly say that I'm shellaced.  My fingernails feel like they are 3 times their normal thickness.  I almost put the gold side of the foil on the wedding cake boards instead of silver.  (Don't tell S, the bride, that; she hates the look of gold, and her color scheme includes silver, gosh darn it!) 

I think I need to go to bed.  In fact I'm pretty sure of it.  Tomorrow is a big day followed by an even bigger day.  And there is still so much to do.  And I'm not sure this post is making any sense at all, but S is looking for one of the bridal party gifts that's lost, so I'm out. 

G'night