Missing my nephew's wedding ceremony

My nephew got married in early June.  I am very very upset because I missed the wedding ceremony itself. Yes, I missed it. I was there, yet I missed it. Why? Because the stupid woman, I'll call her ding-dong, my sister's  friend, who made the cake is an incompetent idiot. And I am being more than kind by calling her an incompetent idiot. 

Now I don't know if ding-dong figured since I'd be there I could fix the cake if any mishaps occurred, of if my sister told her not to worry because I'd be more than happy to take care of any problems. BUT, a competent cake decorator would not take the word of any one. He/She would contact the person who would be messing with their cake to make sure they knew what the cake was suppose to look like and to make sure they were aware they may be needed. I was not made award of this.

My sister gets a phone call from ding-dong's husband around about an hour before the ceremony  telling her that the cake is in need of repair.

The cake arrives 10 minutes before the start of wedding. I see the cake and am in tears. It's a mess. Elmer had to find another table because the cake is 100 pounds and the little card table will not hold it. I run to find my nephew and tell him that the cake is in horrible shape and that I will do my best to fix it, but that I will miss the ceremony. He tells me to do it after the ceremony. I tell him it has to get done before the guests get out to eat because they want to see the cake. He tells me that he and bride to be will be happy with what I can do, that he knows I'll do what I can to repair it.

Ding-dong sent the cake frosted and decorated in butter cream frosting. Dumb, stupid, idiotic. Where was her brain?? The bottom two layers were on something but frosting, trim and decorations were strewn all over. The third and top layers were still in CAKE pans!!! Like the bottom two layers the frosting, trim and decorations were strewn over the cake pans. Elmer went to both kitchens to find 4 spatulas so we could lift the top two layers from the cake pans onto the bottom layers. The third layer did have a hole in it the bottom so the dowel from the next to bottom layer could go into it. But we had to manuver the cake onto the dowel. We did that. We got the top layer on top then I sent Elmer in so he could watch the wedding.

Ding-dong did send some extra frosting and frosting tips. I was not about to try and repair the cake with the tips. There wasn't enough time and my blood sugar had taken a nose dive when I saw how bad the cake was.

I managed to patch the worst of the damage and put on several fresh flowers that Ding-dong had included. The topper for the cake was a glass jar filled with real flowers. Dumb, stupid. Several people asked me if I made that cake. I told them, NO, the woman who made it wasn't here, I had to fix it. I then quickly packed up all the stuff and left the scene of the crime.

Granted I could have told me sister No I wasn't going to fix Ding-dong's mistake.  I was going to watch my nephew get married.  But then he and his new bride would have the memory of a horrible wedding cake.  I didn't want them to have that.  I tried fixing the cake for my nephew.

I can't believe that Ding-dong did not ask me or this other gal if we wouldn't mind fixing the cake if it got damaged while being transported to the church.  I also don't know why she didn't get it there the day before the weddding.  That is when it should have been there.