Creating a Monster

I've been seriously bummed out all weekend because I couldn't go to Missouri for Cory's brother's wedding. Let's face it... since I'm an only child, it's pretty much the closest I'll ever get to having a sibling get married.

Last night at work, I was so depressed about not being at Casey and Nicole's wedding, my New Orleans roomie, Liz offered to take me out to dinner. So, while she was waiting for me to get my act together after the 6pm newscast, she was looking at wedding cakes on the computer. Liz is getting married in October and is in the serious stage of wedding planning (unlike me, who is "just browsing"). Let me tell you, there are some pretty ugly-ass cakes out there. In fact, I'd venture to say that there are even more ugly cakes out there than there are ugly dresses... and there's a lot of damned ugly dresses.

We ended up spending about half an hour of our dinner break cruising the wedding websites, looking at cakes and dresses. She showed me the dress that she's wearing... and it's gorgeous... though she says I didn't ooh and aah nearly enough when I saw the picture.

I think everyone else in the newsroom thought we were a little crazy. We were getting way too excited about looking at pictures of cakes. To be honest, I'd rather be taste-testing cakes... but the pictures will have to do for now.

If I can find some of the uglier cakes online again, I'll be sure to leave a link later on. Right now, I'm running late for work.