Cupcakes Instead of Wedding Cake for Carrie Underwood

Country star Carrie Underwood isn’t planning to stick totally to tradition when she throws her wedding later this year. “We’re kind of doing cupcakes.” The country star said this week on a radio show. “I consider myself a very traditional person. More than anything, we’re going to get married, that’s the important part. And we want everyone to have a good time, so we’re doing some things like that, that are a little bit different.”

Carrie Underwood

But Underwood isn’t settling just for any old cupcakes. She’s got her eyes set on those from IveyCake in Franklin, Tennessee. The country superstar proclaims that IveyCakes “makes the most amazing cupcakes in the universe.” There’s some sentimental value there, as well, as IveyCakes is run by Ivey Childers, the wife of Underwood’s bass player, Mark Childers.

Underwood admits that they’re trying to keep the wedding small. One thing that is not small, however, is that engagement ring. Diamonds of that size (a whopping five carats!) and shape (brilliant round diamond) typically go for large sums of cash. Experts from the Diamond Information Center estimate Underwood’s extravagant engagement ring to have a value of $150,000. Underwood previously expressed her affection for her fiancee by writing in the liner notes to her most recent album, Play On. “You make my life better in every way! I thank God for you every day.”

Carrie Underwood’s Simple and Glamorous Wedding Dress!

Carrie UnderwoodNews has been slowly trickling out about Carrie Underwood’s upcoming wedding–from a decision to use cupcakes instead of wedding cake to the massive engagement ring with a large stone and a bevy of diamonds in pave settings on her finger to the choice to have her beloved dog Ace as the ring bearer–we can all expect it to be a tabloid extravaganza for the Country crooner!  And while fiancee Mike Fisher and Country superstar Underwood surely have been busy with their respective careers these past few months, they have been able to slowly plan the wedding.  And now the latest news is that Underwood has chosen a wedding dress.

Underwood told reporters at the Bideawee animal shelter in NYC recently that the wedding dress is “in the works…It’s really pretty.  It’s very in the beginning stages and it’s very me.  It’s just girly and pretty, and it’s simple and glamorous at the same time.”

Expect a tabloid onslaught to ensue when everyone finds out who’s actually making the dress!