City Cakes

On Wednesday I designed my wedding cake!!! Chris and I went in to City Cakes to taste some cakes and decide exactly what our cake would be like.

City Cakes makes vegan and gluten free cakes. Now I'm not vegan and I can have gluten, I went to City Cakes for the price. And the taste. Just because it's a vegan cake, doesn't mean it doesn't taste the same. Chris and I both fell in love with their lemon cake (which will be the bottom and top layer of our cake). Chris didn't even know it was vegan until after. You cannot taste a difference.

 It's delicious cake! We tried lemon, chocolate (the middle layer of our cake), red velvet, poppy seed (that had a beautiful red frosting-poppy on top that I was in love with because I considered red poppies as one of my wedding flowers), and a spice cake. All of them were delicious and it was a hard decision to pick which flavor to have.

Our wedding cake is going to be beautiful! The girl I worked with, Emily, was very friendly and sweet. She drew my dream wedding cake right in front of me. The bottom two layers look like this:

The cutest cake ever right? And then the top layer will have some black piping decorations on it. I'm so excited for my cake! I can't wait for it to be real!!

For our three layer cake it cost about $350 (and I think that's a lie, I honestly can't remember the total cost, but I do know it was a little more than $300). It was one of the cheaper places I looked at and I loved working with them. Everyone there was a delight and so friendly!

I do recommend City Cakes! I think that they are amazing and absolutely delicious!!!

Wedding Cupcakes!

I personally am a HUGE fan of cupcakes. I think they're amazing. Usually I like them better than a cake. That is why I want cupcakes at my wedding.

I've recently come across people using cupcakes instead of a wedding cake and I am very happy to share these photos with you (as usual, photo credits go to Pinterest). One of the perks of using cupcakes instead of a cake is that different layers of the cupcakes could be different flavors. A downside might be that you may need an awful lot of cupcakes. Regardless, I hope these pictures give you some more ideas!

--Kaylee

Kaiulani Cake Artistry

So I am really excited about this one. :) I have a friend who told me about her relative's Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/KaiulaniCakeArtistry . And my goodness, these cakes are gorgeous! They can also be found on this blog, http://www.sweetlyinspiredcakes.blogspot.com/ , however, it says that it is being changed and a new website is being created (I'll most certainly post about it to keep you all updated as well).   I'm a huge fan of the TV show Cake Boss, and these cakes are probably the closest thing that you could get to that in Sandy, Utah (yes! It's in Sandy, Utah, my hometown!!). Here's some photos to get you even more interested....

The last one wasn't really a wedding cake, but how can a blog go without a shameful Twilight plug? This woman is truly amazing! I could not find any pricing on the cakes. I'm sure it will be included in the new website, or you could easily find it by contacting her. Please just check out http://www.facebook.com/KaiulaniCakeArtistry if you're looking for a wedding cake (or any occasion cake) and you're in the Salt Lake Valley. :)

Musings of a Want-to-be Wedding Planner

I feel that everyone is planning their own weddings lately. That there's really no reason to pay for a wedding planner. Yet despite this fact, I want to be a wedding planner. So if you're interested, please feel free to email me or post on this blog.

To further the need for a wedding planner... this blog is for me to post all these little creative ideas for wedding planning. Most are crafts, I'll post photos of wedding dresses and rings, cakes, exercises to lose those last few pounds, and then I'll write what I feel would be a beautiful wedding to go along with all of it (see, you could steal your entire wedding off the posts on here).

In reality, as a wedding planner I think my job would to organize ideas and make them happen. Some people have thousands of ideas for what they want in their wedding, but not all the ideas mesh together very well. So if you want someone to help organize your thoughts, let me know. If not, steal ideas from my blog. Most likely I found it off Pinterest anyways. Enjoy!