Have your nerd cake and eat it too

We've come a long way since the days of yore where cakes made of semolina wheat were lumped together with some water as a treat for the bride and groom that would often then be crumbled over the newlyweds' heads for good luck. Today, the only thing standing in the way of a couple and their dream cake is a lack of creativity. Or a whole lot of nerdiness. Yes, that would be an XBox cake. Click herefor even more nerdy cakes.


On the complete, opposite end of the spectrum, courtesy of weddingish,we have monogrammed favor cookies so adorable they deserve their own section in cute overload





To me, nothing says thank you to a bridemaid, flowergirl or wedding guest quite like sugar. And a tip from one in the trenches: If you choose to hand out monogrammed cookies as a reception favor, make sure your wedding coordinator or trusted envoy rounds up some extras to pack along as a post-wedding snack. Because nothing says scary, borderline hypoglycemic meltdown quite like the lack of sugar after a full night of mingling, not eating and loving your newly-hitched.



*I am days away from giving birth to my first child, so in the likelihood these posts disappear for a bit, rest assured that I am not indulging in some wild, second honeymoon or taking a sabbatical to finish pre-production on the book (which IS coming out late summer 2007, by the way). Just giving birth. To a real live baby. I'm not freaking out or anything. No, not me.