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October 15, 2006

A Sticky Situation


cream puff dress

Did everybody see this on Yahoo News? Dee sent this link to me. It seems that a fairly-obsessive pastry chef in the Ukraine designed a pastry wedding gown for his bride, made of 1500 cream puffs and weighing twenty pounds.

What do you say to a guy that wants you to wear a dress made of pastry? "Oh, that's so sweet of you?"

"At first, it was even a little embarrassing," Viktoriya Shtefano said of the dress she wore to the couple's reception in August at Uzhhorod's 1,200-year-old castle. "Cameras, interviews, but after a couple of hours, I didn't even want to take it off."

Okay. She didn't want to remove a heavy, sticky, probably fly-covered (it was August, people) pastry dress? That's love. Or something equally insane.

Oh, well, at least her wedding dress didn't also serve as the wedding cake, which sounds like a scene from a Peter Greenaway movie.

posted by Erin @ 10:03 AM  

18 Comments:

  • At Oct 15, 2006 11:14:00 AM, Anonymous Madeleine said…

    I wonder how she got that on.

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 12:04:00 PM, Blogger SDMC said…

    I wonder if she did any nervous nibbling. :-)

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 1:45:00 PM, Blogger MinaW said…

    It's not very flattering… Probably not what she dreamed of wearing. That's love all right.

    At least, a dress which won't last beyond the day is no more wasteful than a gorgeous dress which will never be worn again. Maybe we should praise disposable wedding dresses?

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 3:47:00 PM, Anonymous maureen said…

    He should have made it out of Twinkies. They have a longer shelf life and then their daughter could have worn it for her wedding. It could have become a family heirloom, to be passed down from generation to generation.

    I had a crazy great aunt who use to put out the same plate of Christmas cookies every year. I don't even know how old they were -- but they were old! Every Christmas she'd pull these cookies out of storage and put them on a Christmas plate. Year after year, after year, after year!

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 5:39:00 PM, Blogger Jen ~ MOMSPatterns said…

    1st edible undies now this. What a world, what a world. :P

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 6:50:00 PM, Blogger Danni said…

    I think the story is kind of cute. Not at first, but when you see the art he's trying to create. I agree, it must be love. But I admire him for trying to bring colour and creativity to Ukraine. :)

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 6:59:00 PM, Blogger iopine said…

    Well, thank god it wasn't toilet-paper! He did a wonderful job. A guy who shows interest in his bride's dress must really love her.

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 7:21:00 PM, Anonymous Robinson said…

    I can't image it would have tasted very good since it was made over a two month period.

    I wonder how the first dance went.

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 8:39:00 PM, Blogger Nancy said…

    Okay, I can't resist, but he should have been wearing pants made of...eclairs? Or cream horns?? Some male pastry to compliment her female pastry. Oh.. oh I know....ding dongs, a suit made of ding dongs! Or ho hos! I can just see it now.....

     

  • At Oct 15, 2006 10:00:00 PM, Blogger Zazzu said…

    Yes, she's a woman truly in love to wear such an unflattering gown. She looks like she's really nice and slim under all that pastry, and would have looked wonderful in a fitted wedding dress.

     

  • At Oct 16, 2006 8:02:00 AM, Anonymous Bellaleigh said…

    Oy, the dress! Mostly I am amused (?)at the groom. Seriously, tennis shoes and a pastry chef hat? Good grief, he really must have some fantastic qualities to forgive THAT!

     

  • At Oct 16, 2006 8:49:00 AM, Anonymous La BellaDonna said…

    Hmmmm. I wonder if he, oh, asked her if she wanted to wear a gazillion pastries in August? Or if he just went ahead and made it, assuming she'd wear it?

    I think the best I can do for this dress is that He Meant Well ... and I'm not entirely sure he did. What an ad for his business, after all. He couldn't have just made some pastry fantasy object at the wedding? No, he had to load that poor girl into it.

    It seems obsessive, all right, and I'm not entirely comfortable about it. It's a gesture that seems to be more about him than about her.

     

  • At Oct 16, 2006 9:41:00 AM, Blogger Gigi said…

    I guess there was no kneeling or sitting required during the ceremony.... Sigh, what we do for love.

     

  • At Oct 16, 2006 8:21:00 PM, Blogger Kate said…

    Perhaps she's just not as dress-obsessed as we all are. It's kind of hard to imagine, but it does happen. Perhaps he promised to nibble it off her. ;)

     

  • At Oct 17, 2006 6:45:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Obviously, that guy really loves his job. And that girl really loves him.

     

  • At Oct 18, 2006 1:27:00 AM, Anonymous Sarah said…

    Such a unique idea from a talented chef. He will eat them all during their honeymoon night...til everything is gone...

     

  • At Nov 2, 2006 11:12:00 PM, Anonymous jenny said…

    I just keep imagining a cartoon “*splat!*” sort of sound when, as the evening wears on, the bride forgets that she’s covered in pastry and plops wearily down in the nearest chair. Tee-hee!

    Actually, she looks like a character from “Candyland” come to life. “Countess Creampuff” or something like that.

     

  • At Mar 13, 2007 11:33:00 AM, Blogger Wendy said…

    I'd be worried about bugs! What did she do when she had to use the ladies room? Maybe that explains the look on her face!

     

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