Let it Snow! Winter Wedding Cake

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Image courtesy of Sieber Studio

Kat and Dmitriy were married on Oahu on December 30, 2010. For their wedding they envisioned a winter themed cake with an "enchanted" feel that would be fun, beautiful and elegant in their colors of Tiffany blue and white with touches of gold. The Save-the-Date artwork they provided to us had two very cute snowmen celebrating in the snow, under a palm tree that said "Chill with Us in Hawaii!" Rick designed a 4-tier wedding cake with unusual shapes with the snowmen found on their save-the-date, and a custom snowflake topper.  At the couple's request, he added two parrots on the backside of the cake, something hidden to their guests and special for just the two of them that they would enjoy.  When delivered to their hotel, the cake perfectly matched the colors of the decor and was a big hit with both the couple and their guests.

A special Thank you goes out to Kat and Dmitriy for giving us a theme that we could have fun with and to their photographer, the talented Julia Sieber of Sieber Studio for the beautiful cake images!

Happy Halloween! -- and Last Day to Vote!

photos courtesy of On 3 Photography

Happy Halloween everyone! We're going the unconventional route for Halloween and rather than feature one of our Halloween themed cakes, I chose a wedding cake incorporating the color orange we made this month for our couple Holly and Paul. Holly and Paul flew in from Manhattan to have their tropical inspired wedding at one of the lushest, most tropical locations on the island, Moli'i Gardens on the Windward side of Oahu. You can probably tell from their cake that they had a Bird of Paradise motif at their wedding with dominant orange and green tones, but what made this wedding more unsual is that Holly and Paul, who are huge baseball fans wanted to incorporate their love of baseball and specifically their teams, NY Mets and the SF Giants into the wedding. We made custom handcrafted figures of Holly and Paul and as requested, put them in an outfit suitable for a baseball game -- jeans and t-shirt for Paul and jeans and an orange tank top for Holly. When we delivered their cake, we noticed the linen was blue (Mets, perhaps?) They chose a flavor that would be as striking on the inside as the cake was on the outside, our signature, Rainbowlicious flavor, and Strawberries Chantilly for the top tier. Holly and Paul's wedding was another gorgeous event designed by the team at Weddings by Grace & Mona . As we were leaving, we noticed vehicle after vehicle pulling into the location next door, and was told that LOST was there filming. As stated before on the blog, Rick and I are huge fans of LOST (can't wait for the new season!) and this made our already happy day even better.

Holly and Paul's wedding cake will be up on cakelava.com soon, along with many other new cakes done in the past month.

** This is it. Last day to vote, folks. You decide our December Featured Wedding couple and so far it's looking like Leslie and Sam, Couple #4 will have their wedding featured on cakelava.com. Please vote by adding the number and name of the couple you would like to be Featured in the Comments section. If you are reading this via a subscriber such as Google reader, you'll need to visit the blog directly to vote. The nominees are:

#1: Renata and Rocky
#2: Jennifer and Andy
#3: Karla and Jason
#4: Leslie and Sam
#5: Reiko and Jason

To cast your vote, and "meet" our couples, visit this link:

http://www.cakelava.blogspot.com/2008/10/we-want-you-help-us-choose-our-december.html

Thank you to everyone who has participated by voting.

Happy Halloween!

Natalie and Justin - Absolutely Memorable in Waikiki

All photos courtesy of Absolutely Loved: Stefanie and Anna Riedel

If Natalie and Justin’s names sound familiar, it’s because they have been featured on our blog before. Remember the sweet couple who gifted us on their wedding day with a full cooler of fish they brought over from Alaska?

As a couple, Natalie and Justin are hard to forget. Not because they brought us fish or had two awesome cakes at their wedding, but two warm-hearted beautiful people, are especially difficult to forget once we’ve seen the images of their wedding. One of our favorite photographic teams, the absolutely wonderful Stefanie and Anna Riedel of Absolutely Loved sent us some of their favorite images from Natalie and Justin’s wedding in Waikiki last month. These images truly captured Absolutely Loved’s gorgeous romantic style as well as Natalie and Justin’s radiance on their wedding day.














Thanks to Stefanie and her daughter Anna, for sharing with us their amazing work! Visit absolutelyloved.com to see more.

Check out both of Natalie and Justin's cakes and many more new cakes on cakelava.com!