How Did Kaley Cuoco Get Her Wedding Cake to Hang From a Chandelier? We’d like you to stop whatever you’re doing right now and take a moment to stare at Kaley Cuoco‘s wedding cake.How did the star—who got married to Ryan Sweeting in a fire-and-ice-themed ceremony on New Year’s Eve—get a six-tiered cake to dangle from a crystal chandelier? “TY to #thebutterend for creating our magical chandelier cake. Literally hanging above us. EPIC,” Cuoco posted on Instagram with the above photo, referring to The Butter End Cakery in L.A. The original plan for Cuoco’s wedding was to lower the chandelier almost to the ground and put the cake upright on top of it, says Butter End owner Kimberly Bailey, who has also done cakes for Drew Barrymore and the casts of How I Met Your Mother and Parks and Recreation. “But I had this vision: What if the chandelier was high and the cake was underneath it? So I told Kaley and she kind of lost it. She got very excited and said, ‘How do we even do that?'”

The answer: a few trips to Home Depot, a custom rigging built with event rental company Rrivere Works and enough sandbags to match the weight of the cake, which boasted a 27-inch bottom layer (nearly double the size of a standard tiered cake) and was covered in heavy rhinestones. “We hung sandbags off of the chandelier to see how much weight it would bear,” Bailey says. When they finally attached the cake, it wasn’t just for show: It was stable enough to be cut and eaten. “If you look at the second to bottom tier, there’s a big hole in it,” Bailey says. “That’s where she cut it. They cut it, they ate it.” The two-flavor cake—almond with toasted almond cream cheese buttercream frosting and chocolate almond cherry with cherry cream cheese buttercream frosting—sounds as good as it looks, but it almost didn’t happen: Bailey typically shuts down the bakery between Christmas and New Year’s Day to go on vacation. When Cuoco’s team called her a few months ago, she was looking at flights to Australia.

“It was a secret it was going to be a wedding,” Bailey says. chandelier hall bayonne nj“But they said the magic words: ‘She wants it to be over the top.’ chandelier nomenclatureI said, ‘Damn you, you just said the magic words.’ chandelier curry long eatonSo that was it. I canceled my vacation.” UPDATE: So many people have been asking about the cake, Cuoco tweeted this: Lots of people are asking about our cake and I’m happy to share another pic. — Kaley Cuoco Sweeting (@KaleyCuoco) January 2, 2014 FILED UNDER: Cake , Food , Kaley Cuoco , Weddings On a clear day, you can see forever—or at least that’s the wicked thought behind L.A. designer Agi Berliner’s transparent idea: see-through jeans.

Exhibitionists notwithstanding, most folks wear them over bathing suits or as attention-getting evening wear with halters, garter belts and body stockings. Created for the disco crowd, the $34 jeans are selling like, well, hot pants. In just six weeks, 25,000 pairs have already been sold in such major department store chains as Macy’s, Bonwit’s and Saks. “What’s limiting American designers is that we’re afraid to do something different,” says Berliner, 32, a Hungarian émigré who fled with her family to the U.S. in 1956. Agi thought up the gimmick in London while marveling at the way plastics were being employed by designers of punk fashion. In her L.A. office, where she designs for La Parisienne junior sportswear, Agi spent five days on the phone and six weeks testing to come up with the right plastic. Agi herself tried out the French-cut jeans with the zipper in front, and quickly found several problems: Some plastics tore away from stitching, others wouldn’t bend and all fogged with perspiration.

The ideal material proved to be a vinyl supplied by a bookbinder. The steam was eliminated with a series of vents behind the knees and in the crotch. “They’re no hotter than polyester pants,” claims Agi, “and if you wear them with tights, they won’t stick to your legs.” Whatever the discomfort and despite the problem of Saturday night feverishness, discomaniacs report one major advantage of the plastic pants: no laundry bills. To keep Berliner’s see-through jeans clear, all the wearer needs is a little Windex."Big Bang" star Kaley Cuoco had one of the craziest wedding cakes we've ever seen. Because it was hanging upside down all night, suspended from a crystal chandelier. You read that right -- upside down. Cuoco posted the photo below on Instagram, with the caption "TY to #thebutterend for creating our magical chandelier cake. EPIC", following her New Year's Eve fire-and-ice themed nuptials to Ryan Sweeting. The six-tiered cake was made by The Butter End Cakery in Los Angeles.

Owner Kimberly Bailey tells The Knot that creating the cake -- from planning to execution -- took about six weeks. As for how it stayed up, she said, "We had hung sandbags off the chandelier to make sure it would hold the weight of the cake. A center pull armature held the cake upright and board planks held the individual tiers." Bailey's hard work paid off; the cake turned so many heads that Cuoco tweeted an additional photo of it. Lots of people are asking about our cake and I'm happy to share another pic. Not only did the two-flavored cake look amazing, it was actually able to be cut while hanging upside down. “If you look at the second to bottom tier, there’s a big hole in it,” Bailey told People. Cuoco isn't the first celeb to have an over-the-top cake. Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann's 2004 wedding featured a seven-foot tall, six-tiered cake topped with Swarovski crystals. And in 2010, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky reportedly spent $11,000 on a 500-pound, nine-tier cake, complete with 1,000 intricately designed sugar flowers.