Cupcakes! (And spiders?)

Our cake tasting!

It's official- we're doing cupcakes!  Today the MOH and I went out to the burbs to try a cupcake place, and they were fantastic.  The bakery is called Aracely's, and it's a lovely little shop in downtown LaGrange (in the words of my MOH, "it's like a small town on a post card!").  The owner's husband met us with a plate of cupcakes to try- Carrot Cake, Red Velvet, Strawberry, Vanilla, and Chocolate.  They were all fantastic, but we choose two (if you know me well enough you can probably guess which two I picked).  He walked us through the options and helped us come up with a few ways to personalize them- Jason's will be Chicago Bears themed, and mine will have flowers.  We were going to try to do something archaeology related, but the best we could come up with that they could do would be a whip like Indiana Jones, and we thought that just might send the wrong message.  Aracely's even sent us home with a few for Jason, since he couldn't be there to try them (he just had them for dinner).

The cost for the cupcakes was a bit of a splurge (around $250), BUT it eliminates a lot of hassle on the day of the wedding transporting cakes/cupcakes from Chicago to Willow Springs.  We also took care of mapping out the table arrangement at the site, as well as making a rather unfortunate discovery at the picnic grove- spiders and wasps.  I think we'll have to go the night before and spray some Raid.

Die wasps, DIE!