Scott has been waiting for this day for a long time, my friends!

So long that it’s got him speaking in the third person and it doesn’t even phase him in the least, and being the prolific writer that he is, he usually tries to steer away from sneaky antics like that, but well, I guess it pretty much goes without saying that chocolate can do funny things to people and at the end of the day our hero here is still only human.

Sorry about that, folks, but like the guy said, being a mere human who certainly isn’t immune to the sensual tauntings that chocolate has been known to set forth, I’ve really been looking forward to this part of the wedding planning process! Sure, the search for the venue itself was well worth it once we finally found someplace that didn’t require two arms and a leg to host our event for the evening (studies show that couples who don’t give their various appendages to pay for their weddings are much happier once they begin their married lives together). The tasting that said venue later gave us to sample the menu that will be served on our big night was certainly a highlight, too, but nonetheless the best of the best still can’t hold a candle to dessert!

The cake that we’re planning for our wedding is going to be packed with an extra helping of awesome, though, because we’ve enlisted my family’s very own cake-baking all-star, my Mom, to bake this delectable masterpiece herself. The design, of course, ties back into the general theme that we’ve chosen for our gathering, meaning that this bountiful pastry will be covered with seashells and coral and all sorts of other goodies found under the sea…or at least chocolate and sugar representations of them. I guess the real thing would be kind of gross, now that you mention it…

So while the “exterior” of this heavenly treat is pretty much in the bank, this weekend we’re faced with quite arguably an even greater task – determining what’s to be found underneath all of that delicious frosting and chocolate and multi-colored sugar. And oh, with so many choices – white chake, chocolate cake, yellow cake, strawberry cake, swirl cake …crème filling, fudge filling, fruit filling, merengue filling – I don’t know about you, but my mouth is a-waterin’ just thinking about it! By my approximations, we’re looking at roughly 843,000 cake and filling combinations, meaning that both A) the chances of my losing weight prior to this wedding are decreasing by about 843,000 : 1; and B) this is going to be the best part of the wedding planning process, hands down! I mean, not that choosing napkin colors or stationery shades for the invitations hasn’t been great and all, but stacked up against double-chocolate-swirl cake with a rich filling of fresh strawberries, all buried underneath a dentist-enraging mountain of fudge frosting, those linens never really stood much of a chance anyways…

I know, it’s going to be a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it, and seeing as I’ve got a good 27 years of birthday-cake-eating experience under my belt (and sadly also over my belt at this point…), I think I’m more than qualified to give this important task the dudiligence that it deserves!

If you don’t hear from me next week, chances are a sugar-induced coma got the best of me, but at least know that I went out with a smile on my face and at least three pounds of Mom’s incredible fudge frosting in my belly! Mmmm – said that way, it really doesn’t sound that bad…