Weddings, Aniversaries and Birthdays

Since my parents came back in March we have had a lot of people interested in cakes, my mum has been making a cake a week which we have never had before. A cake a week for a term helps pay for one child at school.

We have also had a number of weddings too. Two wanting just cakes and one big wedding where they wanted the cake, decoration and dresses. It was such a successfull wedding. Its the biggest wedding we have done. The bride bought one of our going away dresses, and her maids hired some of our dresses which were donated by a friend last year. We made the cake - 14 tiers. We decorated the cars and church. The reception was an outdoor wedding in tents. It was a sit down so we decorated it with chair covers, table cloths, baskets for cakes in the middle, sweets, and other table decorations like candles. We had to decorate the tents and the walk way. Each person had a glass for a drink it took along time and had most of the boys and two other friends helping setup.

When we arrived the tents or tables weren't put out, the sun was so hot and we thought we would never finish in time but the place looked beautiful and loads of people took our business cards. From that wedding so far we have decorated another wedding last Saturday which is the purple decorations below. It was outdoors with just one tent for the bridal team. The decorating ran smoothly. However, right when we had finished the wind picked up and blew a lot of the decorations over and then when the bridal team came it started to rain. A lot of the table cloths were stained and a lot of a glasses were broken. So this week Namuya's mum has been scrubbing all the chair covers and table cloths to get them clean again for our next wedding this Saturday.

Friends of the first wedding say they are interested in us to decorate for them and friends from the last two weddings are also interested. Maybe this is the real start of the business. We hope so it has helped us to pay a lot of debts at the children's schools. We have all enjoyed doing it, even though its tiring, its a really good day together, all the boys come and extra friends, like our housekeeper Lois. We spend the whole day there if its an outdoor one and the kids work so hard putting up and taking down. You can see in the pictures below of some of them working.