When was Nic and Wall's wedding? I loved the dropping the cake scene.
The cake arrives
[Ian] “I promised Will I take delivery of his wedding cake with my own fair hands”
There’s already a problem with the cake, though. Rather than Eddie delivering it, they’ve had to entrust it to Joe (as Eddie had a last minute job). Will is not amused.
[Ian] “I’d be in a state if I thought my wedding cake was being transported in a pony and trap!”
Joe eventually struggles in with the cake – though it sounded like Ian and Caroline were more worried about Joe dropping it, than him feeling the burden on his 90+ bones. Seems he decided to carry all the tiers in at the same time rather than have to make 3 trips back and forth to the trap.
[Joe] “Clarrie out them in three boxes so it wouldn’t have hurt if I’d dropped one”
(eh?)
Anyhoo – Joe hands over the cake safely. So all is well …
Joe’s fixing the chandelier?
I thought Roy had said that it wouldn’t be a Del Boy and Rodney farce …
But all Joe wanted to do was have a look at it.
Caroline tries to stop him going up a ladder to do so.
[Joe] “Cause of all that health and safety nonsense?”
[Caroline] “Because I don’t want you spending Will’s wedding in hospital!”
Never one to listen, Joe tries to climb on the ladder that Caroline is already on. She manages to shoo him down before they both end up in hospital.
[Joe] “I just wanted to tell Will I’d checked the chandelier with me own eyes”
[Caroline] “You’re lucky it’s still there at all, if I’d had to hold onto it to steady the ladder!”
[Joe] “Sorry missus … Will’s last wedding turned into being a fiasco
The cake gets sat on
Ian and Caroline have opened the wedding cake boxes, and reckon it’s a stunner. Such intricacy.
[Ian] “Clarrie certainly knows how to ice a cake”
I’m still not clear why, but Caroline felt the need to pick up one if the tiers, and walk across the kitchen.
She slips. And comes down with a rather heavy bump. Onto the cake.
Oh dear.
[Caroline] “Never mind about me. Look at the cake. Oh Ian. What are we going to do?”
Ian blames himself for moping down the floor after Joe’s muddy boots,
[Ian] “A wet kitchen floor is an accident waiting to happen, second rule in the chefs rule book”
[Caroline] “What’s the first?”
[Ian] “Don’t drop the wedding cake!”
Ian doesn’t seem too panicked. He has time to make up a new tier, though it’ll have to be sponge rather than fruit cake. He reckons the guests won’t notice (they’ll have had enough to drink by the cake cutting part of the day), and if Caroline makes sure that Nic and Will cut another tier, even they won’t notice. Though Ian is worried about the icing.
[Ian] “Icing a cake. It’s like a signature”
[Caroline] “Oh good lord, the top tier. Some people ask us to save it so they can use it as a christening cake!”
[Ian] “Well at least they won’t notice it was sponge until after the wedding … Do we even know Nic and Will want children, haven’t they got enough already!”
[Caroline] “I don’t know Ian. I can hardly ask them on their wedding day”