A Cake as Tall because the Bride! See Shawn Johnson's 'well-nigh naked' 7-Layer marriage ceremony Cake - americans magazine

04/21/2016 at 05:57 PM ET

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She may be little, however Shawn Johnson East knows the way to make a large impact on her marriage ceremony day, appropriate down to the Olympic gold-medal gymnast's seven-layer cake. At almost 5 feet (including base and topper), the confection become as tall as the bride.

With 350 visitors to serve at the April sixteenth affair, held outside at a non-public farm in Tennessee, a large cake became a necessity—however Johnson (who wore an Olia Zavozina mermaid dress) and her new husband, Oakland Raider lengthy snapper Andrew East, made sure it become also a perfect suit to their personalities.

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"We did four different flavors—loopy flavors!" Johnson tells americans completely. "One is Samoa like the woman Scout cookies, one is chocolate chip, one is marble with Nutella, one is vanilla with strawberries. So it became in fact fun and it's similar to Andrew and me—we have a hard time making up our minds trigger we like every thing!"

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The towering confection, created by using Nashville's Dulce muffins, turned into designed to healthy with the day's "rustic, based" theme says the couple's marriage ceremony planner, Sara Fried of Fete Nashville.

"This become a virtually bare cake, so that you could see via a bit bit to the cake inside," Fried says.

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The gentle frosting medication narrowed the couple's decisions of flavors—no purple velvet peeking through!—nonetheless it matched the farmhouse tables and earthy greenery adorning the barn the place the reception was held. In decorating the cake, "we kept it simple," says Fried, pointing to the subdued white peonies and ivory roses adorning the aspect. "The greenery mimicked the pinnacle desk's decorations and the flowers were the same as in her bouquet."

Fried delivered a last very own touch together with her present to the couple, a glittering gold cake topper spelling out "Bro" and "worm," their pet names for each different.

—Eileen Finan