Love through a lens!

It's always lovely to hear back from a Bride and Groom after the Big Day, and hear how it all went. It's great to hear how the cake top played it's part on all manner of wonderful cakes.

Cutting the cake is of course one of those wedding moments that everyone likes to have a picture of! Sonja and Shane, along with their photographer Gemma Williams, were kind enough to share lots of wonderful wedding photos with me... and with you!! Gemma really has captured the magic of the day, and all those lovely little touches that the bride and groom put into thier 'apple -country' wedding. (Handmade signs and moustaches being my favourites!!) It really is beautiful, and i am so pleased that i was able to contribute a tiny wee part of it, by making thier caketop.

The happy couple are booksellers, antique books that is, so there is a pile of leatherbound books sitting on the cake top... and their wee boy is cheerily waving thier country flags on there too! It was a great fun caketop to make, and a real treat to have an 'invite' to the day, by being able to view all the photos on Gemma's blog, it really does tell the story of the day!

CONGRATULATIONS Sonja and Shane!!!

http://www.gemmawilliamsphotography.co.uk/        http://www.tarringtonbooks.co.uk/

Hallow-weenies!

October time!! Pumpkin!! Hats!!! Monstas!!! yes.... still caketopping as well, never you fear, spookiness has only arrived for one day....

Yes, so a wee etsy shop has opened for the season. First in the shop are a handfull of halloween goodies. Little pin brooches made with polymer clay, and providing a bit of an autumnal smile i hope. As wintertime can be a bit quieter in the way of weddings, i am planning on fitting in a few festive brooches and random things as time allows, during the next few weeks, which i'll put on etsy. Also i will list one or two BARGAIN caketops for you. Oh yes! I have a couple of 'ex display' caketops i've used for a bit of experimental photo taking, and if i manage to i will make up one or two more for you too... so look out you may be able to grab yourself a cake top bargain on etsy. Will keep you posted. Regular personalised caketop orders still very welcome as usual of course!! Just get in touch direct for those. Orders are being taken for 2012, and my diary is now open!

In the meantime, back to spooky!!!!

Party crashers!

Weddings can be a tricky buisness... you just can't leave someone out! What would your pets say if you forgot them on the big day? They may have to stay at home, since no doubt they may be easily worn out by so much dancing and may be a bit tempted to munch on the wedding cake when you're not looking.... but who's to say they can't star on the cake instead of eating it?!!

Oh! But there is always one isn't there!! Just has to crash in on the wedding party, burst out of the 'cake' no less..... well at least he made the effort and wore a top hat for the occasion!

Congratulations to of all these wedding people, and their various furry and feathered and top hatted friends!!

Ladies in red

Isn't red such a wonderful colour for a wedding... it definitely suits a bride, especially if it has some sparkley beads and shining embroidery on there too!!! Beautiful brides with bling!!

Congratulations to all our bride and grooms, who wear it so well!!

Globally yours!

There's been a whole lot of flag waving going on lately... i think that coo started it. And why not, if you have a flag lets wave it!!! yay!!

Of course it's not just country flags..... you've got to keep and eye out for the eighteenth hole too... even on a wedding day!!! fore....!!!

Sounds of the summer

Well it has been a busy Summer for weddings of 'People I Know'. People I Know have been getting hitched all over the place.... Andy and Zoe made a day of it way down in Englandshire, so far from here it was nearly in France. Still caketops travel well and the cake top i made for them got there no trouble at all. However, to be on the safe side there was a wee sandwich on the cake top and a flask of tea should the caketop people get peckish en route... and they had football tickets should they have time to take in a game.... maybe a strum on the guitar.... Fuzzy the cat came too, to make sure they didn't get lost....

The guests had a great feast of course with a fantastic cake made for the day by friend of the family and expert cake decorator Margaret, who obviously has a very steady hand and great attention to detail as she got the tricky design from the couples wedding rings beautifully iced onto the cake. Making for a very dramatic and individual cake, which was a big hit. Nearly as big a hit in fact, as Andy playing the drums....but not so agressive on the ears....much better for the tastebuds...

Congratulations to the new Mr & Mrs, may your married life be happy and never short of loud music and yummy cake!! xx

highland wedding!

Of course it was not just coos that attended my cousin's wedding!!! No they had a 'proper' cake too!! It was a dinky cake, but i made it a tall one so in fact it didn't look so dinky at all in the end! We enjoyed a lovely wedding at the Old Pines Hotel, at Spean Bridge, which was just perfect with yummy food and just the ideal setting for a cosy wedding. The Highland coo cake got munched on the day, while the 'proper' wedding cake was eaten later as the newly marrieds celebrated all over again at the weekend!

Congratulations to the happy couple! It was a great day! The cake top i made for them gets all the fun tho, i tell you.... it gets to travel home to Norway with them for another party, and then again to Paraguay for even more wedding cake and celebrating!! Send us a postcard!!