Lemon Poppyseed Wedding Cake

My daughter, Elizabeth was married this summer.

It was a perfect day.

The bride was beautiful.

The groom was smiling.

The parents were tearful.

But… their spectacular day that we had planned for almost a year and a half was somewhat altered. The 120+ guests at a local ranch, strings and keyboard muscians playing classical music for the ceremony, bluegrass band for the reception, caterer serving mouthwatering Montana beef tenderloin and salmon, mountains of flowers, horse drawn carriage to the reception, bridesmaids luncheon, rehearsal dinner packed with family and friends traveling from all over the country….none of that was to be in the era of the Summer of 2020 Covid Wedding.

Our daughter and her handsome husband did have a their special day in our backyard in Montana. Only twelve of us attended including our priest and good friend who performed the ceremony. The wedding party dined at the local golf club with a diminutive, but delicous, cake and we offered a few toasts out on the putting green.

Honestly though, as different as it was form what we had palnned, it was so perfect, I don’t know how we could have improved a thing.

The grooms sister and her fiancé were part of the collateral damage of Covid. Their wedding planned for last April has been moved to December and not knowing if they are going be able to have it, we decided to bake them a wedding cake and during our makeshift backyard BBQ rehearsal dinner, let them have their “cake cutting” moment. Kimmons, our youngest, has become a proficient baker so she took the lead creating a lemon poppyseed cake with meringue decorations.

This is for you Lindsey and Jack and all the other couples who have had to pivet, postpone, cancel or elope during Covid.