Details, details. Honu motifs, sage green chocolate brown and ivory

All images courtesy of David Murphey Photography

For Jennifer and Mel's wedding on 8-8-08, luck was all around them. They had one of the luckiest dates of 2008, the much sought-after 8-8-8 date. Their motif of the wedding involved honus, the Hawaiian sea turtle, which many believe bring good luck when you see them, and they had an awesome coordinator to bring it all together, Veronica Trujillo from Parasol Events. Jennifer and Mel are also obviously madly in love with each other and had the support of their family and friends who flew from all over the nation to celebrate with them. As if that wasn't enough, before their wedding, they were featured in the Honolulu Advertiser for an article on 8-8-8 weddings, and on 8-8-8, Rick was filmed by KITV news making their cake, which aired the night before.

This morning as I came into work, I had a lovely assortment of photos sent to me by Jennifer and Mel, (Thanks, guys!!) taken by their photographer David Murphey. David's website is www.killerphotos.com. Killer, indeed, check out these beautiful images! I chose to focus on the details of the wedding, especially the honu motif, which was present throughout the wedding, not just the reception. See for yourself how it all came together. We wish Jennifer and Mel much luck and happiness in their new life together! Thank you for allowing us to create such a fun and fantastic cake design. We will always remember you two!











See Jennifer and Mel's wedding cake and many more on cakelava.com soon!

Aloha!

Puffins and Honus (Turtles)

Today I thought it would be fun to marry (pun intended) a couple of our previous themes of the week -- volcanos and 6-7-08 weddings. Like Taryn and Jessica, Kerry was also one of our 6-7-08 brides. For Kerry's wedding, her colors were periwinkle blue and a soft sage green and she fell in love with the tall unusual shaped white swirl/plumeria wedding cake on cakelava.com, a design previously featured on our blog back in June called "A Glimpse After the Cake" . She wanted the same shape with the handcrafted plumerias but wished to include a honu motif. Honu is a Hawaiian sea turtle, which many believe bring good luck. I know we do, especially when Rick and I are swimming at Kailua beach and they come up to us. It's magical! In Hawaii the Honu is often represented by a petroglyph design of a turtle, and for a wedding with a Hawaiian motif the honu is common to find on invitations. We thought the plumeria flower worked well with the honu/ocean motif that Rick used on the cake.

Kerry surprised her fiance with his own sculpted Groom's cake, representing both Hawaii and Newfoundland, where he was from. She thought it would be fun to do a volcano, with a puffin, commonly found in Newfoundland, and have the puffin sit on an iceberg. Well, it's cake and fantasy is allowed. The result is shown above.

Kerry put as much importance on the taste of the cake as the look and she carefully chose her flavors of Lemon Pucker and Local Kine Special for the wedding cake and our Chai Latte flavor for her volcano/puffin cake. You could say their wedding was a HOT, cool, and spicy affair.

See both of Kerry's cakes on cakelava.com

Aloha!