Rinaldo's Bake Shoppe

We made the decision to get the cake from one bakery, but to get the food from another caterer. This was not a problem, but it did add extra work for us. I originally wanted a theme cake, but my family and friends talked me into getting a regular cake with buttercream icing. I didn’t know what fondant tasted like, and when I did taste it I was happy that I chose regular icing because fondant is really sweet. The cake was two layers, and was decorated with lots of icing flowers. It was really beautiful. I almost didn’t want to cut it. The staff at Rinaldo’s was also happy that I got a regular looking cake, because they say that always looks more classy at a wedding.

For the wedding reception, we had three different kinds of chocolate fountain, which was really nice. I still wanted to have a wedding cake, and I read about a Groom’s cake, which is something that you can serve sometime before the wedding. We had it on the Friday at his parent’s house. My gift to my husband was to have the bakers make a cake in the shape of Maui, since we would be going there for our honeymoon. I thought the bakers would have told me I was crazy, but they said it would be a problem and then showed me different designs of how the cake could look. It was expensive, very colorful, and my husband was so surprised! The cake tasted great, really good, but I only had a small slice because I still needed to fit into my wedding dress the next day.

I think the cake looked pretty and tasted delicious, but I would also say that the cake also looked different than what was promised. We wanted hot pink icing flowers, and they gave us light pink. It wasn’t that big of a deal, but it wasn’t 100% what I wanted. I would say that they were very nice about it, and sent us some cookies as a form of apology. I would also say that John and his team are some of the nicest people I have ever met and had the chance to talk to, and so that’s why I wasn’t so upset that the icing flowers were lighter than I wanted.