bad cake, bad baker!

Three cake tastings down, one to go.

I'd like to say they were all wonderful and everyone was fabulous, but it'd be a horrid lie. Our first tasting had a wonderful vendor, really a sweet woman and she was so accommodating! All of our questions were answered and our fears quelled. It was unfortunate that the cake wasn't impressive. Mr. Gummi Bear and I are both very easily swayed by how much we like the vendor as a person, so we felt bad that we weren't sold on her cake.

The next tasting, which we were very excited to go to, turned out to be the opposite experience. We sat, looked at books, ate cake and were impressed... only to wait an extra half hour to be greeted (or not really, she didn't say hello or introduce herself) by a woman with a calculator and a scowl. She was rude, unaccommodating, condescending, and was flat out making up numbers out of thin air. She claimed that what the first cake vendor said was possible, was impossible, and made sure to tell us that on a good day, without traffic, in a normal car, it would take over 2 hours to go to our venue. It takes 50 minutes with normal driving as it's on the way to my parents' home, so I've driven the distance numerous times. I let it go, I wasn't going to argue how ridiculous that time estimate was, she was just flat out mean to us. I politely tried to leave several times, only to be bashed about how I couldn't have what I want (so, I should give in and go with her - obviously). We left thinking we'd rather not have a cake than have one by her.

Which led us to our next vendor, who is located only 3 blocks from us. So we walked down the street, picked up two slices of pizza from the local bakery, and strolled in to chat. We were very disheartened and almost had decided not to get a cake at all, considering our last two meetings were not at all what we were looking for. But we were very surprised! She was sweet, funny, easy to talk to about her designs... and she also agreed with our first vendor, it IS possible to have a buttercream cake delivered to our venue! And then the tasting... GOOD! We got our estimate and left smiling, reconsidering our thoughts of foregoing a cake altogether.

We're very easily swayed by "clicking" with our vendors, so although we have another appointment this Saturday, we may have already found our baker!