It's Always Wedding Season!

Weddings, showers, engagements...these are the current cycle in my group of 50 something year old friends.  Cookies are very cyclical.  A few years ago my busiest month was May because of the graduations...I did so many cookies, more than Christmas.  Well, those kiddos are grown up and getting married.  Even some baby cookies in the fray these days. So here are a few of the latest in the wedding theme.  Interestingly enough, 2 of the following are for friends my age getting married again!  How wonderful that love knows no limits!

 I did these shower/bridesmaid cookies for a friend getting remarried.  All of her girlfriends showed up in old bridesmaid dresses.  What a hoot!  I decided the pink was perfect for a bunch a gals toasting the bride! I love the little marbleized hexi cookies as a filler.  Great size and sparkle too.

Here comes the bride!

Autumn brides have such a deep palette of colors to choose for the season, and these cookies were some of my favorites.  I love that plum and the deep blush together.  I think it is stunning against the white. 

These were for a shower/dinner and she wanted another little dessert for the party.  I think the gold dress them up nicely and again there is that hexi cookie!

One of my golfing friends is getting remarried in Hawaii.  She wanted tropical cookies for the party, but she wanted favors as well.  I made this Hawaii cookie after I saw a gorgeous on made by Fancy Custom Cookies on Instagram.  I decided this was the perfect centerpiece cookie.  I late found out that someone ate it at the party!  Yikes!  Not the bride or groom mind you....people, people, people...do not eat a cookie with someone else's name on it without permission.  Geesh. 

And these Hawaiian shirts were the party favors.  How fun to send everyone out of the party with a reminder that you are heading to Hawaii to get hitched and everyone else gets to see it on Insta!  LOL, I saw her after the trip and it was as lovely as you imagine. 

Something for breakfast tomorrow!

So that's all for now.  I am in full blown Christmas mode....So there'll be cookies....   So. Many. Cookies.  Stay tuned.

Engagement Rings and Monograms

Lots of engagements and weddings.  Perfect celebrations for cookies.  Either as favors for a wedding or shower, beautiful platters for an engagement, a little happy for the couple for a smaller get together.  I love them all.  Monograms, the date, the rings, the cakes...so many ideas to put on a platter!  And the colors! These are the more formal. 

The ampersand has made a big comeback.  I do love it, however the ampersand cutter I invested in was a bust.  Very fragile and almost lost its shape.  The ampersand in icing seems to work well. This grey and lavender shower was different for me.  I like the subtle colors for fall. 

I love the rose pink color with the silver, such a classic combination.  The pearl airbrush really popped in this picture, but truthfully it is very subtle.

 These cookies were special for me to make.  This was for my son Nic and Madison's engagement. I would never have believed how fast that year passed from engagement to wedding!!!  The champagne bottles were made with edible paper labels.  I just love them, they make such a statement.  The gold roses were not my favorite.

These wedding cookies have a more formal flair, I think it is the addition of the black tie cookies.  I just love that pop of black on the platter!  The rose cookies add a lot of depth to the platter and I use them quite a bit.  They are a nice eating size and really stunning to look at.  The small roses are something I always (ALWAYS) have on hand.  Takes a simple plaque to something special for sure.

The roses make another appearance here and the gold with the pink is stunning. The stripes are a favorite and I suspect this may have been a "blush" request, but that pink grows darker...

Same, but different!

This platter is a much more subtle pink, and it was gorgeous.  All the usual suspects on the platter plus some wonky roses  ala Sugarbelle and that ampersand cutter I don't love.

 So just a sampling of the wedding fever.  What are you waiting for?  Get in there and bake!