gnu, that bring a memory for me....
my grandmother, Maggie McConnell, was the wedding cake baker in the little town of Roundup, Montana. Their homestead was in Musselshell county, but for a time, when my mother was young, my grandmother worked as the ranch cook at Ringling, Montana, for the summer ranch of the Ringling brother's circus.
(The town that inspired Jimmy Buffet lyrics - Ringling, Ringling, slippin' away Only forty people livin' there today.)

I remember seeing the wedding cake, waiting for a bride's family to pick up, in my grandmother's kitchen. It looked like it had white lace hanging from the edges of the layers.

I inherited the hand made icing tips and the rose nail she used to make the frosting decorations.