We knew from the beginning that we were pretty lucky regarding a lot of wedding, because of our family relations. One of those examples is my new sister-in-law, Alex. She's graduated from the pastry part of culinary school and has worked in bakeries, making all kinds of yummy goodies - and she also makes and decorates cakes. We knew we wanted her to make our cake. Nate insisted on it since her cakes are always so tasty. But we were very surprised when she offered to do it for free.
Again, I felt that warming feeling in my heart as another person offered to help us because of the love they have for us. No words can adequately express how grateful we feel to everyone.
As one of my bridesmaids, here is Alex:
She's cute, yea?
A few months before the wedding, Alex was home from school for a weekend and the family had a session of looking through bridal magazines. I thought it was fun... maybe not for Nate or his dad, Doug... Anywho, I was noting different cake designs and Alex was doing the same, looking for a cake to make for an upcoming bridal show she had in Utah. She came across one that I absolutely loved, except the coloring. It had 4 tiers and the edge of each tier was covered in little tiny fondant flowers. I thought is was lovely. It was clean looking, sophisticated, and I loved the use of one color of various shades. It had dark peach flowers on the bottom layer and then they gradually got light towards the top. Alex took that design back to Utah, but was having trouble with the peach coloring. Mom-in-law, Tammy, suggested she try doing it in teal-turquoise, knowing those were my colors and knowing I loved that design. Alex tried it and it worked.
See her show cake on her website:
Alex created the same cake for us for our wedding. We had (from bottom to top) chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate in the tiers. She makes each tier with 4 layers separated by Bavarian cream. The outside was butter cream, which she smoothed so well to look like fondant. We wanted our cake to look beautiful, but we also wanted it to taste yummy. And fondant is not yummy.
A note on the pictures above: the only thing I did to make this table pretty was tie the ribbons on the cake cutting utensils and rent the tablecloth...
Nate didn't have many opinions about the wedding. There were really only 2 things he cared about: the bride and chocolate cake. He got both. :)
I had wanted some kind of cheesecake element (my favorite dessert), but she just couldn't work it into the cake itself, so she made little cheesecake bites, especially for me. It was a good thing, too! The only piece of cake that I got was the bite. You know, the bite I shared with my husband in the pictures below. Alex said that she'd never seen a cake go so fast. It was gone as soon as it was cut. But she saved the cheesecake bites for a little later, so we got some of those. :)
Alex made each of these little flowers by hand. She is so incredibly talented.
Amongst all that she had to do with the wedding cake and the cheesecake bites, she also made Nathan a grooms cake. His favorite show in the world is Lost. She created a hatch and added the wedding topper. This particular topper has never been my favorite since it implies that the groom doesn't want to get married. This was never the case with Nate. But topped on the Lost cake, I feel like I'm dragging him from the hatch after we've been blown up or shot or something... It made me giggle. I loved it. :)
I would love to see her business grow. I recommend her to anyone needing a wedding cake. Alex is a professional in every sense of the word and your cake will be fabulous, beautiful, and tasty. Hire her!
Her website: www.sweetalexscakes.com
All photos in this post are by allichellephotography.com.
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