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Millie Becker, owner of Creative Weddings & Floral Designs, creates “wedding cakes designed
to your wishes.”
Iomance touches flowers and cakes
Details mark trend toward elegance
I Sara Bauder
ff Reporter
Elegance and extravagance seem
>e what couples are looking for in
dding cakes and flowers.
Millie Becker, designer and owner
Creative Weddings & Floral De
ns, 70th and Vine streets, said the
id is toward anything that is more
reme and more extravagant.
An important part of that trend is
or. Becker said that red and black
the most popular colors for wed
“ The red and black have just taken
:r this summer,” she said. “Peach
I teal arc still popular, too.”
Becker said that while some brides
1 plan a pink or blue wedding,
se colors have been seen so often
t brides have been shying away
m them.
With the changes in color comes a
mge in the size of the wedding
;e. Becker said couples often order
re cake than the number of recep
fi guests would require.
“They want the cake to be for
>w,” Becker said. “They want them
>e as big as they can gel them, with
kinds of elaborate details.”
vSomcof those details include stair
ys, bridges, fountains, flowers with
I ights wound between them, molded
sugar bells, hand-tied satin bows
and icing rosebuds, Becker said.
Although the ideas brides have
for their cakes do not usually throw
Becker off, she said she was sur
prised by one recent request to in
corporate caged birds in a cake’s
design. Becker has never worked
caged birds into a cake design be
fore, but said she thinks it will work.
Rather than the traditional bride
and-groom figurines for cake tops,
many couples want the more
“cutesy” Precious Moments cake
tops or imitations of them. These
often depict a child-like couple in
wedding attire, Becker said.
Some couples wan*, flowers on
top of their cakes instead of figu
rines, but Becker said that trend is
not predominant among her cus
tomers.
Susie Coppock, owner of Susie’s
Floral Shoppe, 1401 N. 66 St., said
tradition is back in wedding flow
ers. She said brides are looking for
elegant, cascading bouquets of white
gardenias, roses or stephanotis.
Although some brides want to
hold a colorful bouquet, Coppock
said the color often looks too splashy
and draws the eye away from the
bride and to the bouquet.
“A soft color in the flowers gives
a glow to the bride and projects a total
look,” she said.
With the bride holding a white
bouquet, most attendants carry bright
colors in their flowers, Coppock said.
Red, emerald green, teal, peach and
black-and-white are the most popular
colors for weddings, and flower col
ors are just as vivid.
“The brides will hold the white
and then let their colors stand out
with the attendants,” she said.
Flowers for the groom should match
the bride’s bouquet, according to
Coppock. The largest boutonniere
should be worn by the groom, with
ushers and fathers having smaller ones
to coordinate with the wedding col
ors, she said.
Rowers for the ceremony and
reception sites vary depending on the
location and budget of the w edding.
“A lot depends on the church,”
Coppock said. “If it’s large, we usu
ally start with an altar bouquet and a
tall arrangement that can be taken to
the reception site.”
Coppock said one way couples
can save money on flowers is to make
sure flowers can be used at both the
ceremony and reception.
A long, low arrangement often
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sue higher educations beyond
the undergraduate level may have
a slightly higher divorce rate.
But generally, Johnson said,
people with a college degree
have a lower divorce rate be
cause their jobs are less stress
ful and more satisfying In addi
tion, college-educated couples
often are exposed to more people
and more situations.
But Johnson said the divorce
rate will remain high.
Johnson attributes this to the
fact that Americans won’t stay
married unless they can find
personal happiness.
Most people place more im
portance (Mi the married rela
tionship than they do on friends,
family, etc.
Couples need to realize be
fore they marry that the romance
and sexual attraction will de
cline. '
Once people realize that the
relationship is going to change
during the course of the mcr
riage, Johnson said they can work
through their problems.
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real happiness stems
from common decency
Few have the chance to see their
parents marry. At the tender age of
20, I, along with my sister and her
husband, six brothers, five of whom
are married, and all their children,
watched my folks pledge a life of
love.
It was a nice Catholic service; the
church was filled with friends and
members of the congregation.
They promised to love each other,
for richer or poorer, in good times and
bad, in sickness and in health ...
Lisa
Donovan
All these requirements for the sake
of love.
All this for love.
Love.
Many things have been written
about love. “Love conquers all,” and
“Love knows no bounds,” and, of
course, the famous song by the J.
Geils Band, “Love Stinks.”
Love and commitment, barefoot
and pregnant, tied down to one per
son for the rest of your natural life,
washing his underwear, him washing
my underwear (even worse), him
wearing my underwear. Too poor to
buy underwear.
One can contemplate many things
at those nice, long, Catholic services.
Anyway, Mom looked at my
wrinkled and balding 66-year-old
father standing next to her.
“Ido.”
Dad looked at Mom, silting there
in her wheelchair, worn from 19 years
of battling multiple sclerosis and 3£
years of motherhood.
“Ido.”
Only 45 minutes until church was
out.
It was the first time I saw Mom as
a fellow woman, not the person who
I made cry for dining ‘n’ dashing at
the local country club. This was not
the woman who said you’ll never find
a man if you eat like that.
She was right.
And she had found a person who
made her happy.
The priest went into a fire and
brimstone spiel about how people in
this day and age don’t know what it
means to be committed. That money
and material goods h. ve gotten in the
way of real happiness.
My parents were a symbol to all
couples of love and endurance... and
happiness.
The happiness of having eight
children. The happiness of watching
your eldest son graduate from col
lege. The happiness of being called
by the high school attendance office
because “your son wasn’t in home
room again today.”
This is all a part of love, the priest
rambled on.
A few of my friends think it’s
strange and even sad when I bring up
the fact that I don’t believe in love. It
is not some bitter conclusion that is
derived from several failed pseudo
relationships. Or perhaps it is.
I would like to think that one of the
most profound authors of the 20th
century, Kurt Vonnegut, helped me
mold my belief about love in his
book, “Slapstick.” At least it’s a
good pickup line.
“I have had some experiences with
love, or think 1 have, anyway, al
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