Eric and Carol's Wedding Cake

Of course, me being who I am I had to post a photo of the cake. It was beautiful and very tasty. There was also a groom's cake. I had never heard of a groom's cake before, but according to this website, the groom's cake is a Southern tradition and any single women should take a piece home and put it under their pillow so they will dream about their future husband. Does anyone know if this is the real meaning of a groom's cake? Anyway, whatever the meaning of the tradition, it is kind of fun.

The wesite also said that sometimes the groom's cake is served at the ehearsal dinner and it should be the groom's favorite type of cake. That sounds doable...German chocolate cake at the rehearsal dinner! (Or baked Alska but I have no clue how to make that. It sounds hard.)

Eric and Carol get married!

My cousin Eric got married last weekend...the first Yeckel cousin to tie the knot! It was a gorgeous Southern California day, and an intimate, mostly family ceremony and reception. The colors were a vibrant and warm orange and magenta. I loved the dress Carol chose for here bridesmaid, hopefully I can find something as cute for my bridesmaids!

I love this photo...it is such a tender moment, with Eric fixing Carol's dress. So sweet!

This is Carol with her bridesmaid in the too-cute-for-words dress and another guy that I don't know.

Wedding Planning

I recently took a trip to San Diego to begin planning Matt's and my wedding. Matt proposed while we were in India, which was in February, and I didn't make it out to San Diego to start looking at places until the end of March. Originally, Matt and I had wanted to have our wedding in Mexico, but when my mom and I went down to check it out, it seems that everything had been booked up! Baja California is really popular for San Diego weddings I guess. We looked at a few hotels and other place, but in the end Matt and I decided that we just want an extremely casual wedding. So for all of you that will be coming to the wedding....don't expect anything fancy! It is just a fun wedding...our main hope is that all of our family and friends can get together in a relaxed environment to have a good time. So...be prepared for a much more relaxed wedding than usual. We are getting married on December 31, 2007 in San Diego. Luckily for me, mom has agreed to take care of most of the details. Thanks mom!
I couldn't resist putting this picture in...this is Makayla and her desk. Everything was perfectly organized and arranged on the desk and I thought it was really cute. Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of the other girls, cause I was mainly taking pictures of wedding locations and stuff.