Wedding Cakes!

Happy New Year! If you're wondering why I haven't posted in awhile, you must not know me very well! I'm up to my ears in wedding details. Thank goodness help is arriving soon in the form of my friend and day-of coordinator, the beautiful and talented CC.

For now, feast your eyes on wedding sweets! My uncle owns a bakery in Taichung, and he sent three cases of goodies with my uncles and aunt who were able to make it to the wedding. Yum! Pineapple cakes, lemon cakes, cream filled sandwich cookies, nougat candy, and Taiwanese pastries.

These he didn't make, but ordered from a colleague who makes more Western style wedding sweets. Taiwanese tradition is that upon engagement, the groom's father sends the bride's family a monetary gift, with which the bride's mother buys wedding sweets to pass out to the bride's family friends as a formal engagement announcement. Between not wanting to steal my uncle's thunder (he was married this past summer) and coordinating to get something cuter than we could find in the states, these ended up being passed out two weeks before the wedding and we weren't able to get enough to give every friend. But c'est la vie, we do what we can!