My First Formal Cake Decorating Class

In the midst of being busy on the wedding preparation, I did something extra. Come to think of it, why the heck did I choose to do it at this time? Haha! Aren’t wedding preparation busy enough yet?
Yup, the title says it all, just 2 months before my wedding date I was busy attending cake decorating class by Wilton. The class was not expensive (in my opinion) as it was a hands-on class. And also we have a starter kit and lesson plan book to start with. Meaning, you do not have to have any decorating tools prior to this class.The starter kit.
Complete with all the tools and a lesson book.
Since it only will take me 2 hours per week and this course is only a 4 week course, so I decided to sign up with a friend. It’s not a very big class as there were only 8 of us in the class.
Just when I thought 2 hours per week would not take much of my time, I suddenly notice that this is actually a cake decorating class. Meaning, we are requested to bake cakes and bring it to class for decorating session. L So, I will need to spend some time every Friday after work to bake my cake and also to frost it before bringing it to class.
Although its only 2 hours class for 4 days, but to my surprise, I learnt a lot in this décor class. All this while I have a lot of those tools at home but I have no idea it can make a lot more design just by a bit of extra twist & turns.

2^nd class: The 1^st cake that I ever did with a proper frosting. J
On the 3^rd class, the instructor thought us on how to decorate a cupcake.

Why didn’t I think of twisting the piping bag 90 degrees to get the above flower design?


I’m very satisfied with this design. Simple and nice. J
On the 4^th (Last class) we learn to make the famous Wilton rose.

And then we decorate the frosted cake that we prepared with the roses that we did. Erm.. Although it did not look good. But hey, this is my 1^st attempt making those roses. So please excuse my skill. :p
We are also given certs for completing this course. Yeah! I’m graduated from Wilton’s Decorating Basics Class.

Our Pre-wedding shots…

Wow!! It’s been so long since I last blog anything here.. hmm.. I think I’m going to blame it on the wedding preparations. Hehe…

Let’s start with the 1^st thing we spend for our wedding (omit the apartment). Of course the one thing that all ladies would not want to miss out – The Pre-Wedding Shots!!!! Believe it or not, we made the booking almost 1 year before our wedding date because I’m afraid that time will not be enough. We did not really walk-in to every bridal shop to ask on the price as we already had in mind which bridal house we wanted to choose. Yeah!! REDBLISS BRIDAL was the one we had in mind all the while. It is located in SS2, Petaling Jaya. Although the package they offered us is a bit pricier than the other bridal shops as expected, but we still took the offer crossing our fingers hoping that their quality will be better than the others. And also, I felt that their choices of gowns are quite a lot as I had hard times choosing too. Their staffs are also good at recommending which suits me well.

It was a very very tiring photo shooting day. Too tired till we did not really had any food until when all is done around 5pm. The whole day photo shoot took use from 6.30am till 5pm. Almost a 12 hours shoot.. My contact lenses were drying up in my eyes. And I was struggling to get off those fake manicured nails once I reach home before I could put my fingers into the eyes to take off the contact lenses. Come to think of it, is it worth to be tortured like that for a pre-wedding photo album?? LOL!!!

I guess my answer will be: DAMN WORTH IT!!! As I was absolutely satisfied with both the make-up artist & the photographer’s skill & technic!! Haha.. Why?? It’s because they can really turn an ugly duckling to become swan in the end result.

During choosing the picture session, it was hard for us to choose 40 poses out of the approximately 200poses. We were really trying our best to scarify pictures so that we can get the best 40 poses. As I said, it was a very very difficult decision to make. Haha.. So in the end, we gave in. We had to pay extra to ‘buy’ more pictures. Which is not much pics actually, only extra 12 pictures and that cost us few more hundreds. Mind you, this happens to almost every couples.. haha.. You will sure pay more to add in more pictures into your album. But again, we still think it was worth the money as we were very satisfied with the pictures.

Below are some of the pics:

I like this pic as both of us have a very nice smile. Note: Hubby had difficult time smiling in front of the camera. Haha.

We got a lot of compliments on this shot. :P

This gown looked plain as it does not have much detail on it. But it came out well in the photos.

I chose to wear a ‘kua’- instead of choosing another dinner gown as a woman can only wear this during her wedding.

I love all the outdoor pictures.

The most important thing is still on how the photographer captures the pic on its best angle.

My hubby look so ‘yeng’ in this shot!

OH! After a so tiring day, he still managed to carry me for this shot! LOL

Does it look like I’m going to ‘eat’ him up? :p

Nice effect with the long veil that I was wearing.

Did the wind really blown the veil up?? Hehe…

Hubby was actually all soaking wet in this shot. Yet, the pic came out well. Of course with the help of some touch up in the computer. Hehe.

Loved this gown very much!

BY the way, in case you were wondering, the outdoor location was at FRIM, Kepong. We also did some shooting at the streams. But we did not really like the outcome (both of us not wearing heels & shoes). We felt it did not look like wedding shots. So we did not really choose any pic from that session.

And so, that was the final result for paying a handful amount for the Pre-wedding photo shoots at REDBLISS Bridal.

In case you were wondering, my make-up artist was Ai Ling & the photographer was Kelvin.

So, now do you belief that make-up can really make an ugly duckling to turn into a Swan? LOL!!