My phone never rang, but I see I have 2 missed calls. Crud.
We will be in Ames tomorrow. Call when you are done picking up the rental car and we'll figure out timing. It sounds like we should be able to meet for lunch. I've got appointments and then we're going to pay for tuxes, etc., in downtown Ames.
Only 40-50 minute drive from the DesMoines airport, so it should work pretty closely.
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I think the stegasaurus one is absolutely adorable.
But the triceratops won't work -- no creature representing me would ever wear pink. It just wouldn't happen.
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Ooo! Ooo! Now I know how the dinosaurs died out!
They were made out of lead, and they were too heavy and got bogged down in the cheesecake and suffocated!
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Thsi thread is so cool. It's making me think of weird things I'd put on a wedding cake if by some fluke someone wanted to marry me. Such as ninja, samurai....... All of the members of Dir en grey despite the fact that that has nothing to do with getting married.. ah, well. *Thinks the stegasaurus idea is priceless*
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Syn, I know what you mean. I wish I could go back and do something wacky with our cake topper. Ours was a ceramic Manti Temple, the temple we were married in. I still have it. Posts: 7050 | Registered: Feb 2004
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Aw that sounds so cool! It would be nice to have maybe... a small scale model of Minias Tirith because that building just looked so cool Maybe a ring wraith or one of the wraiths with the fell beasts... so cool
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O, I also vote for the lava lamps. One's sparkly and white and one's black! How perfect is that!!?!?
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Toys R Us usually has some really nice realistic looking dinos in the science section. If you have a Natural History Museum nearby they should have nice dinos as well.
Toys R Us and K-Bee should both have appropriate lego sets, maybe even dino legos.
If you could find dino shaped candy molds, that might be kinda fun, an edible couple on top, but not if you want it as a keepsake.
Our wedding cake was a sheet cake frosted sky blue. A small heart cake was off near the corner and frosted white. rainbow made from sprinkled colored sugar started at the heart and descended to the pottom of the cake on a diagonal. It was pretty, but neither of us wanted a cake keepsake.
We had some friends who got a knight and a princess from toyknights.com for their cake. Someone else got two dragons (a red and a blue) from the same place for their cake, that was cute.
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What about marzipan? You can make anything out of marzipan and it's not super expensive. If there are any Greek bakeries near you, they should have some.
I wanted glaceed fruit on my cake, but the stupid baker didn't do it and refused to get it from anywhere else (I had to use the baker contracted by my venue). On the way to the rehearsal dinner, my attendants and I stopped at the best Greek bakery in NYC (Omonia in Queens, 4 blocks from where I used to live) and got 5 pounds of marzipan fruit. It turned out to be about 4 pounds more than we needed, but we decorated the cake ourselves and it turned out great.
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The Poseables come through. Once again success comes to those who are too dumb to give up. I have picked up the dresses, found Krabby's shoes and other stuff she didn't think about until on the road, and most assuredly procured the cake top. Now all I have to do is figure out how to carve a wedding dress. With an empire waist of course. This ought to be a two or three beer job. See ya tomorrow.
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There is also the very real possibility that Posable just can't spell. I know that seems remote in this particular case, considering the change the mistake made, but it is possible.
No I did not try on any of the dresses. They were all too large, or at least you hope that is true as large will be easier to hide than too small.
After putting up with her for 40 or 50 years or however long it has been I have the right to call Krabby by her first name.
There have been many things that I have made or done for my daughters that I have said I would never do again. Wooden wedding dresses have just moved to the top of that list. This thing is getting so thin that if anyone touches the skirt it will crack. Too bad we don't have time for an epoxy coating.
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