cake dilemmas

Hello people!  yeah, i know, its kinda been like almost a whole month...  well I have good news! my speech class (which was wasting up all my time with homework etc.) is now finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so happy i am making a cake! well actually my mom made the cake, but i am going to decorate it!!  Do you guys bake/decorate cakes to celebrate things other then holidays/birthdays/other occasions that fall in this category?

I am having some frosting issues though... apparently my dad doesn't like chocolate frosting (it is a yellow cake)  and my mom does not care for homemade butter cream. :/ I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do about this predicament...

anywho, I'm thinking about decorating it something like this:

 

I think that the ones on the right are wedding cakes, but they are pretty cute.  I like the blue one right in front.

Well, wish me luck with my cake! :) 

~Kiara

pictures from pinterest