03/13/2026
I was both honored and terrified when asked me to make her wedding cake. I said yes because I love her and also because thereโs nothing I love more than whipping myself into an anxious frenzy over a baked good. Kimia and I moved to Boston together in 2020 for grad school, two San Diego transplants who didnโt know anyone else.
One night, I was home watching The Florida Project with a now irrelevant boy when Kimia waltzed in from her first date with John, somehow having located the only 6โ5 man in all of Boston. I watched their relationship grow while I personally sacrificed myself to the short king dumpster fire that is Boston dating ๐ค earned his keep in our household, dutifully hanging curtains and fixing stuff in our crumbling 100-year-old apartment.
Iโd bake them birthday cakes for fun and Kimia has always been Foxyโs biggest hype woman, so when she asked, I couldnโt say no. Am I cut out for a two-tier wedding cake? Absolutely not. Did I almost have four menty b along the way? We donโt need to talk about it. Anyways, CONGRATS Kimia and John on the most beautiful wedding ๐๐ค
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