“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.” Paulo Coelho
Finding a rainbow is a truly magical experience, but with a vast array of basic colours and colour-combinations to choose from, it’s easy to become lost when trying to immortalize the experience… Being a bride, it is not simple to chose a theme for the big day….should it be her favourites? Should it be matching? Should it be accepted and approved? Should it be fashionable?
“My love was green—new and alive. Her love was red—full stop. Occasionally and cautiously we’d meet in the middle at yellow.” Jarod Kintz
I personally find it incredibly enlightening when a bride comes up with some delightfully unique colour schemes that will surely leave the entire personnel of the wedding preparation inspired! Some experts say the choice of wedding colours tends to be a subconscious reflection of the couple’s personality and an indication of how they imagine their future marriage should be. Of course some brides will choose their colours based on the theme of their wedding, for example a beach, a garden , a vintage romance, or a traditional love…Some will choose colours to fit in with the time of year, such as soft pastel colors for summer, deep, rich, jewel colors for winter, bright contemporary colors for spring or muted tones for autumn or fall…
Daffodil and black must be dramatic retro chic at its finest! While yellow and black may not seem like a bridal favourite, when put together, the combination creates a look that is as one of a kind as the love of the couple! From friendly cupcakes to the beautiful wedding cake, these are two gorgeous hues that will leave viewers breathless!
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
Yellow is illuminating and uplifting, relating to the mind and the intellect. Yellow in the wedding colors creates a warm, welcoming, cheerful and happy mood which will lift up the spirits of the couple and the guests. According to the spiritual professionals creative, original still practical individuals choose yellow as a wedding colour, who are a good communicators and make decisions clearly and easily, but are still impulsive and spontaneous rather than thinking things through before acting. A marriage with yellow as a wedding colour will allow independence as well as needing logical and practical order in the everyday life to allow you the space to inspire and create new ideas…Have a happy life together Aneliese and Wil!
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ” Oscar Wilde
Traditional carrot cake
Ingredients
250 g self-raising flour
2 teaspoons mixed spice
400 g caster sugar
350 ml vegetable oil
4 eggs
350 g grated carrots
120 g chopped walnuts (optional)
Grated zest of 3 oranges
Cream cheese filling
225 g cream cheese
2 tbsp orange juice
Grated zest of 1 orange
110 g butter
500 g icing sugar
1 teaspoon orange extract
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Grease two 25 cm round cake tins. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, mixed spice and sugar. Add the oil and beaten eggs, mix until blended, then stir in the carrots and orange zest (finally the nuts if chosen). Divide the cake mixture evenly between the two prepared tins. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven. It is ready when a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool cakes on wire racks before removing from tins. To make the icing cream together the butter and cream cheese in a medium bowl, then add the sugar and mix well. Stir in orange zest and orange extract, then fill the cooled cakes.
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