Indrani and Geoff

The Bride and Groom wanted a very hot, bright, colour palette. They described what they wanted to me in this way:
We want something really really bright and impressive looking. We'd rather it look impressive than taste great. We want it intense bright, deep pink, almost fuschia, with a yellow border, and the flowers on it to be hot pink, yellow, purple, and red like the other colours in the bouquets.

I was actually imagining something tropical and exotic, maybe even like the intense shades of saris - but simple in shape to highlight the colours and flowers. Because the flowers were such a key component to the cake I decided to work with Geoff and Indrani's florist, Aleya from Aleya's Floral Design. Despite not seeing each other's work prior to the reception, I think we colour matched perfectly. And upon delivery to the reception venue, it because obvious that we'd gotten the colours right -
the cake worked seamlessly with Indrani's colour scheme, matching the napkins, tablecloths, and bridesmaid dresses. I didn't get to see her face when she saw it, but I'm confident that Aleya and I achieved Indrani's vision!

The cake was vanilla with a dulce de leche filling and vanilla buttercream. It's quite yummy!

Emily and Bart

Emily and Bart are young at heart and had a wedding to match - candy filled carafes as centerpieces, a popcorn machine, and engagement photos at Toronto's Centre Island. Their wedding cake needed to match their fun-seeking personalities. The answer was a cupcake wedding cake. To make it their own, Bart and Emily requested that the cupcakes be capped with a 6" tier for cutting that featured a unique wedding cake topper: sugar cookies decorated to look like his and her wedding rings (sanding sugar was used to make the diamond really sparkle).

Bart and Emily didn't request just any old cupcakes however. They wanted cupcakes with umph, something with strong flavour impact and dramatic decorations. The colour palette of chocolate, ivory, and pink tied it all together but each cupcake was a stand alone piece of art. See the additional pictures below for descriptions of the three types of cupcakes that make up this elaborate cupcake wedding cake.

The Cupcakes --

Hazlenut cake cupcake, filled with cinnamon buttercream, and iced with whipped dark chocolate ganache. Cakes were adorned with gumpaste roses and blossoms and sugar pearls.

A lemon cupcake with raspberry pie centres and iced in pink lemonade buttercream. These cakes were adorned with large and small gumpaste blossoms and sugar pearls.

No such thing as plain vanilla, these triple vanilla cupcakes are filled with a burst of coffee buttercream and iced with Madagascar vanilla buttercream. These cakes are sparkling with sugar pearls.