$10,000 Wedding Cake

I’ve played at some pretty fancy events.  One of my craziest gigs was a wedding at The Pierre, a 5^th Avenue hotel (circa $800/night).  It was a magazine wedding.  Legit.  Often I am asked to play for weddings months in advance, but for this one I was asked the week of (and of course all communication was with the wedding planner.  I had no contact with any member of the wedding party at any time).  I was practically an after-thought.  They already had a small orchestra lined up for the ceremony.  Want to know what my job was? I was the hallway music.  No kidding, I played outside of the ceremony while people walked in and out.  They hardly even noticed me.  It was so bizarre.  Usually people are at least a little surprised by the sight of a harp.  But hey, the wedding cake alone cost a staggering $10,000.  It was dazzling; probably ten tiers covered in sparkling silver-tipped white flowers (all edible, of course.  I really wanted to try one.  I’m sure they wouldn’t have noticed…) I’ve been googling to find a picture of something similar, but nothing even compares.  Although for your entertainment, I did find this horrifying picture of a bride-shaped wedding cake:

I guess throwing a harpist in the hallway is no biggie when you’re used to living like that.  Nothing much has changed in the past few centuries; clearly musicians are still the low-class slaves of royalty.  This happened only a few weeks after my own wedding.  My entire wedding cost less than their wedding cake.  It’s okay, self.  You had a really nice wedding too.      




Follow up:
Well, I guess my memory exaggerated the size of the cake.  Turns out my husband took a picture of it. 

So it was only six tiers.  But still.