One matter to which all those involved in the wedding are amenable has been the creation of a wedding cheese, in lieu of a wedding cake. It was in pursuit of this that we travelled to Whitestone Cheeses of Oamaru earlier this week. Bob, the managing director brought out a variety of cheese rounds for us to play with and we tried stacking different kinds and sizes of cheese on top of each other to create our lactic vision. This was a level of fun normally associated with childhood. A wholesale price list meant the costing of the enterprise was reasonable too.
Now we have our imagined stack: Moeraki Bay Blue upon red-rinded Airedale upon Windsor Blue upon Mount Domet Double Cream Brie. With fifty wedding guests and around seven kilograms of cheese, that works out at around one hundred and forty grams of cheese per guest: several slices, or a wedge. One of the cafe staff suggested separating each round with shot glasses. There were many descriptions of cheese cakes past: weddings and birthdays. Perhaps no-one has yet commissioned one for a funeral?
The delivery of the cheeses in the spring will, I hope, be one of the most fun parts of the final planning dash. Given the near-religious regard in which so many of us seem to hold cheese itself, perhaps a handfasting around a cheesy altar would be an appropriate sort of wedding blasphemy?
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Sara and Adrian had Mixed Cake G (http://www.houseofcheese.co.uk/acatalog/wedding.html) at their wedding; people kept saving me slices of the blue – can’t think why!
The opportunity to play with rounds of blue and build stacks out of them was a highlight of our visit to the cheesemonger. I will have to rely on our guests eating my share on the day, however!