New Wedding Cake People!!!! :)

After the huge craptasticness of the last cake lady (see previous entry), we learned a few lessons.  Robin had successfully bullied us into an oval, lilac, 3 tiered fondant cake.  I am not a 3 tiered cake person, much less a FONDANT 3 tiered cake person.  I had always thought I'd end up w/ a cupcake wedding cake that's fun and a little different.  So, after the whole debacle, Chris and I decided to go back and really decide what we wanted for a cake and find someone who could do that for us (and at a jew price).  I called all around town and narrowed the list down a lot.  I mean some people are charging $4 - $5 PER CUPCAKE.  No thank you. 
We then had a list of about 5 people to meet with.  We met w/ a nice young lady last weekend.  Her cupcake tasted okay, but mine taste just as good and Courtney's are better, BUT she could do what I wanted (decoration wise).  BUT THEN...she said her delivery fee was $75.00.  Are you kidding me?!?!!  Thank you, but HELL no thank you.  So then we set up two other interviews.  The first was last night. (Spoiler alert:  We enjoyed the first place (Island Cakery) so much that we cancelled the second interview and booked Island Cakery immediately)
We showed up to Island Cakery and the owner Gail wasn't quite ready for us yet, so we chatted with her husband, Frank.  Immediately we felt very comfortable and at ease.  We were at their business, but it felt very homey.  I was skeptical about pricing for this place because their cakes are $5/slice (that's a lot).  However, after everything is said and done, we are only getting charged $20/dozen cupcakes and $60 for the giant cupcake top tier (to hold our cake topper).  We will have three flavors w/ three different frosting colors (and are purchasing 12 dozen cupcakes).  Including all of this and delivery we're only paying about $375.  And let me tell you, the cupcakes are delicious!  I am thinking of buying a dozen just for the heck of it sometime.  So excited!!

I thought about not blogging about this because I need to stop wedding blogging since we're going to have a very small wedding and it may be considered a little rude, but I was very excited and it was time for a nice blog instead of a rant.