WOW, that center diamond looked great in your 3-stone ring...but what a MAKEOVER!  

It is definitely going to be hard to wait for that beauty to come home again! I can't wait to see it on your hand...

May 11th 2012, Jen!!!!!  I am already looking forward to it!!!   

As long as your sweet hubby isn't making cupcakes......   Honestly, that would be lovely!   

I can honestly say he has never tried to make another cupcake. You're quite safe.
 

I cannot wait to see it.  I know you are excited!!!!

Nothing. The main ingredients were smoked salmon, icing sugar, butter and chives, if I remember correctly.

I'll tell you, but if you ever meet him, you mustn't mention this...

When I was pregnant, I had a craving for lemon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. We live in a fairly small village, there were none to be had for miles around, so DH suggested we bake some.

I wrote the ingredient list and he went off to the store. I didn't think I needed to specify that the cream cheese should be plain, but apparently I should have. He came back with Philadelphia Cream Cheese with Smoked salmon and Chive.

I should have kept a closer eye on him, the kitchen is not his natural habitat.

OMG that sounds positively nasty... funny too.  I promise I would never mention it.  Sad when some people can not cook/bake much at all.  I remember a time when I was going on vacation with friends and I just blanked on making a pasta dish for him.  Totally ran out of time.  I gave him instructions on how to make it and told  him he had to buy a jar of pasta sauce (I make from scratch so we needed something easy).  When I came home from vacation it was literally inedible - and he had been eating some of it while I was gone.

To this day I have no clue what the heck he did to the pasta to make it so darn nasty.  He claims he followed directions... but if he did it would have been at least average in taste.  Poor guy.

Pasta boiled in stock is the nastiest thing on that list, but it was a close run thing!

A stunning ring DJ but does your husband know he married a diamond junkie lol ? The addiction is kicking in ......
PS Nice cake Jen, where were you when I needed someone to bake me a wedding cake lol?

Sadly I had written out exactly what to do with bringing the water to a boil, add pasta, cook for x minutes, drain etc.  It was a baked pasta recipe too.  I don't know where he went wrong and to this day he won't admit to messing anything up or not following the directions. 

I think he either didn't measure the sauce right or over baked it.  I came back and the sauce was nasty as all get out - I tossed it.

My poor man cannot cook to save his life.  I love him anyway.

Happy Anniversary to your parents Jen   I think that cake looks lovely!  I never did learn how to do flowers like that but I always wanted to.  My mom had a ton of icing tools and books.  She was amazing but she never had a chance to teach me. 

Candy them - candied violets and rose petals are easy to make, if boring like hell...

Aww bless you Jen. We wanted a wedding cake but we didn`t want to follow the Uk tradtion of having an iced rich fruit cake ( pah pah shudder shudder ) because neither of us like it. So we opted for a chocolate mud cake instead. Hopefully it will look and taste just fine.
I can`t stand marzipan, nor fruit cake nor traditional icing, neither can Ellis but with 80 guests we needed something big enough to call a "wedding cake".