My GLITTER filled DISNEY inspired WEDDING day!

      A little over a year ago I decided to stop mass manufacturing my cupcakes and start focusing on the part of Amanda Cupcake that I love ♥. Oh goodness, I still have these WILD dreams of opening up a cupcake mansion with glitter walls and all things fantastical, I’d even love a chain of them like Starbucks! Those dreams will never go away. But what I did know is that I’d never accomplish those dreams going at the rate that I was. This cupcake queen was staying up all night almost every night for a little over 4 years, baking up a storm for big box retailers. My problem wasn’t that I didn’t have enough business. It was that I was making these little art pieces by hand by the thousands..and they were in such great demand I couldn’t do it all myself!
And perhaps I wasn’t the one supposed to be mass manufacturing? Amanda Cupcake should have had a team of bakers helping her, so she could go out and sprinkle glitter all over the world like they loved to have her do. Not be stuck behind closed doors, slaving away in the kitchen.

I had tried to partner with Shark Tank and find an investor to help me build some capitol and with that, a team of cupcake bakers to make this dream come true. I got very close! One of the casting directors called me and I went through the process. But I didn’t make it all the way on the show. But just that experience showed me that the vision of Amanda Cupcake was very unique and enough to get noticed. When Amanda Cupcake was noticed by Shark Tank but not selected, I realized that I needed to do something different. Maybe mass manufacturing wasn’t what Amanda Cupcake was truly about, for now.  So I decided to take a little hiatus, rest, and do some soul searching. My inner soul just said to “Be Still.” What I found..was time to spend with my family again. I did get a day job as a business manager (and in that, I have learned a lot of business skills-I look at my job as my investor, paying me to learn)! I got healthy again through the practice of hot power yoga (I was starting to pack on pounds making those cupcakes)! I found some new talents (and of course they mix very well with my Amanda Cupcake persona, you’ll see what they are shortly)!

I married my Mister Cupcake (Kyrik) on September 17, 2016

One big score..I met my future husband (Kyrik) when I opened the Cupcake Mansion in New London. He lived right down the street. When I met him I was so focused on my business that I never knew he’d be my husband. 

….Until he swept me off my feet. He wouldn’t leave me alone. He supported my business. He spent many long crazy messy nights in a blur of powdered sugar with me. He was there during my many triumphs but also stood next to me, proud of me during my failures. And even when I was weary, he saw my beauty.  If it wasn’t for Amanda Cupcake, I would have never met him.

Planning my wedding with Kyrik also helped me discover new  talents. Event planning! We decided the theme of our wedding would be enchanted fairytale, inspired by DISNEY (because we are both such kids at heart and dreamers) !

 

The inspiration for my look was Ariel, The Little Mermaid. All of my bridesmaids were dressed as different Disney Princesses!Can you tell which is which? (From left: Cinderella, Tinkerbell, Snow White (my matron of honor), Belle, Aurora, and Jasmine). I didn’t want them to look “too costumey”, I wanted each girl to feel like a beautiful princess. 

My bouquet was inspired by my fantasy vanilla rainbow cupcake recipe ♥,
I added a “dinglehopper” of course since I was The Little Mermaid!

We designed the bridesmaid bouquets ourselves ♥ My mother in law helped us make them! Can you tell which one belongs to each Disney princess?

There were even Disney Princess cupcake charms on each bouquet! (to combine Amanda Cupcake & the enchantment of Disney)

We threw  a”glitter heels” party before the big day where my bridal party hand glittered all of their own heels for the wedding!!!

Time with my mom before the wedding.
I gave my mom & future mom-in-law magic fairy godmother wands, with glitter shakers attached! (So they could sprinkle magical glitter on the guests all day and all night!)

No one left our wedding without glitter on them. Especially if you hugged a bearded usher.

Is that..King Triton and Ariel? (No, it is me and my dad!)

Little Ariel and Flounder  (Little Ariel is throwing glitter instead of flower petals if you look to the bottom right of her dress)

Vows exchanged in the middle of an enchanted forest, right on the edge of the Ice Age Trail.

We hired a chorus of Madrigal students from Waupaca High School to create a Disney Medley of songs for us as our wedding “soundtrack”. It was so magical.

One of our best friends was our officiant. As a surprise, he broke out in song here, “What Is Love, Baby Don’t Hurt Me?! No more!”  This is why we hired him. He is wise but also has a wonderful sense of humor.

 

or our unity ceremony, we mixed 2 different wines (handmade by Kyrik), and I sprinkled glitter in mine! 

 

Our first glass of wine together as Mr & Mrs. Rudd (ahem Cupcake)..CHEERS!

Our choir surprised us by singing, “KISS THE GIRL!” from The Little Mermaid during this moment. 

While we were frolicking in the woods after the wedding, our beloved guests were partying it up in the enchanted wonderland we created for them!

My aunt Margaret.. I never knew she was such a party “animal”! (get it, because she is wearing a unicorn horn?!)