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How to Choose Your Wedding Cake
Scrumptious Wedding & Specialty Cakes
CHOOSING a wedding cake
for your wedding can either
be a very involved process
or simply a choice presented
to you as part of a wedding
package. In the past, wedding
cakes were simply an item
you would pick from a list of
pre-packaged choices with no
options to change the design,
color or flavor. Nowadays,
brides are starting to be a lot
more involved in planning their
wedding cakes. Designs and
color combinations are a lot
more personalized and driven
to reflect the bride’s personality
and the wedding motif. Every
bride wants her wedding cake
to be unique, memorable, and
a true expression of her own
personality. To avoid spinning
your wheels when it comes to
choosing your wedding cake,
there are a few pointers to
follow.
Before you start looking into
different cake shops and designers, try browsing as many
bridal and gourmet magazines
as you can. Copy or tear out
pictures of cakes you are interested in and add them to your
wedding binder. Once you’ve
collected a few ideas, start
comparing your favorites. Do
you notice a pattern starting to
emerge? Chances are, you’ll be
drawn to a particular look or
design element. This exercise
will definitely help you avoid
being overwhelmed when the
time to decide on a design for
your cake comes.
Once you’ve gathered up
your favorite ideas, you can
now start searching for the
perfect wedding cake shop that
can help you with your cake.
There are two things to keep
in mind as you start visiting
wedding cake shops. Make
sure that you take advantage
of any opportunity to taste test
their cakes. Unless you do not
care how your cake will taste
like, then we suggest that you
need to critique the quality of
the bake goods first before you
start discussing in detail your
design ideas. Secondly, make
sure that the wedding cake
shop you chose are willing to
do personalized cake designs.
There are still a lot of wedding
cake shops out there that operate off a standard menu of
wedding cakes with no desire
to customize orders.
The very best part about
shopping for a wedding cake
is sampling the merchandise.
Taking advantage of “Cake
Tasting” offers since this will
provide you the chance to
compare different combinations of cake and icing. Know
your options as far as flavor
combination from cake flavor,
fillings and types of icings offered. If you are not familiar
with some of them, ask to taste
them. With the emergence of
rolled fondant, choosing the
right icing for your cake has
now become one of those items
you need to decide on. Rolled
fondant is an elegant, smooth
icing used to decorate cakes.
It can be tinted to many colors
and allows for a wide range of
artistic touches to enhance the
beauty of your cake. Rolled
fondant is extremely common
in Europe and Australia and has
become more popular in the
U.S. in recent years. Its texture
and taste is quite different from
buttercream—if you are not
familiar with rolled fondant, we
recommend you sample it!
How far in advance should
you start planning your cake?
It is never too early to begin
making plans for your wedding
cake. Once you have confirmed
a reception date, booked a hall,
and selected colors and floral
motifs, it is time to plan your
cake. Some people book the
cake as far as one year in advance. Early booking increases
the chances that your cake
designer still has your wedding
date available in their schedule.
At the latest, you must book the
cake 3-6 months in advance
of a reception date to avoid
scheduling conflicts with your
cake designer.
My Thuan Supermarket:
A Shopping Destination, Asian Style
LOOKING for fresh ingredients for your oriental
masterpiece to show off to
your family and friends? For
every Asian and other curious
individual in America, there
is only one perfect place to
shop in the Westminster
area, and that is My Thuan
Supermarket.
My Thuan Supermarket is
among the full-scale Asian
supermarkets in California.
This supermarket offers a
complete line of products that
you think you need. If Asian
grocery produce, vegetable,
seafood and meat products
fill up your grocery list most
of the time, My Thuan Supermarket is the right stop for
you because it has a full line
of these items, and more. You
can always count on fresh
produce as well as a wide seafood section because these
are what they provide. You
will have no reason to worry
about the costs because it’s
only good prices that await
you, not to mention their
My Thuan is located at 8900 Westminster Blvd., Westminster CA 92683. From
weekly specials.
From the 22 and 405 free- the 22 and 405 freeways you can either exit Brookhurst or Beach Blvd.
ways you can either exit
Brookhurst or Beach Blvd. to
Teacher Tetchie in the ‘Happiest...’
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grounded. It’s safe to say that
I’m living the happiest time of
my life. I see myself as a working actress who has another
world outside of show biz.”
Screen granny
Before landing the grandmother role of Vesta in the
GMA 7 prime time series “Super Twins,” Agbayani played
mom to Jolina Magdangal in
“I Luv New York.”
“It’s nice that I can play a
grandmother role,” she said.
“I’ve played mother several
times over. I think it’s indicative of the cycle I’m entering
in show biz. To be playing
grandmother at my age means
that I would have a longer life
in show biz and would have
continuous work.”
Before she played mom
and grandma, Agbayani took
on roles of sex sirens and
Amazons, conquering Hollywood in a limited way. But
then she felt homesick— so
she dropped the opportunity
before she could even make
a dent.
She said she went to America “to be a normal person”
and to pursue her studies.
But six months into her stay
in the US, she began to land
roles in films like “Emerald
Forest,” “The Money Pit” and
“Gymkata.”
In 1984, she auditioned
for a role in a “Rambo” film,
but passed it up when she
learned that filming would
take place in Mexico and not
in the Philippines as originally
planned. She was yearning to
return home, she said, especially after she had discovered
Boracay.
Not ‘showbizzy’
For a time, Agbayani, who
had bought a house on the
resort island, lived by the sea
and went to Manila only when
there was work.
“I can’t remember the last
movie I made,” she said. “I
don’t take note of [my film
projects]. Even in my house, I
don’t have framed pictures of
myself. I don’t have posters of
my movies. I’m not “showbizzy” at all.
Career highlight
“Had I stayed longer in
Hollywood, I could have continued working. And who
knows what would have happened?”
Throughout her Hollywood
sojourn, Agbayani said she
never disclosed her stint as a
Playboy centerfold.
“My agent advised me not
to mention it,” she said. “She
felt that it would have boxed
me in sexy roles.”
But the Playboy experience
would always be a highlight of
her career.
“It certainly made my mark
in the business and made
me a household name,” she
said. “But there are always
two sides to everything. I
lost some and gained some.
There were the perks, but
there was also a downside to
it. I got a lot of flak for it, and
it threw my life into a cycle of
introspection. In hindsight, it
taught me a lot of lessons, like
getting knocked off your ass
and falling fast. Now, I see it
for what it is.” (Inquirer.net)
The Garden Cake
Scrumptious Wedding &
Specialty Cakes will create
cakes to fit every occasion.
In addition to weddings, they
cater to a long line of different
occasions like Anniversaries,
Debuts, Birthdays & Corporate
Events. They offer free cake
tasting and design consultation by appointment in their
CA 92683. My Thuan has ever
since been of big help to thriving Asian communities nearby,
who come to do all their shopping on the weekends.
My Thuan Supermarket
only wants to make Asians,
especially Filipinos, aware
that a complete line of Filipino
grocery products is standing
new shop located at 1722 N.
Tustin Ave in the City of Orange. You can contact them at
(714) 974-6881 or by email to
[email protected].
If you like to browse for great
cake design ideas, you can visit
their website at www.ScrumptiousWeddingCakes.com.
(Advertising Supplement)
close to them, with a nice,
clean and comfortable shopping environment to boot.
So next time you are thinking of having an oriental affair, or a Pinoy cooking spree,
My Thuan is here to always
bring you closer to your roots
and heritage.
(Advertising supplement)
reach My Thuan’s great, conMy Thuan has allocated its own Lunar New Year Section which awaits
venient location at 8900 Westshoppers their gift bakets and other gift ideas to usher the Lunar New
minster Blvd., Westminster Year!