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So, I guess only the married bees that are still hanging around will be able to answer this, but let's see your cake inspiration beside a picture of what turned up on your wedding day. I think my baker did a pretty good job interpretting the picture I brought her. The cake was really good, and it was fairly inexpensive. $300 for 120 servings. Inspiration here:
My cake
Wow, that is a fantastic job at replicating the inspiration! And I love your simple elegant style!
This was my inspiration (in the wrong colors):
And this was our cake in the right colors:
I really loved it, the only thing that I would have liked to seen differently is a more rounded pearl-like border. I thought our border was a teeny bit sloppy. But really, on the day of I was mesmerized!
This is such a neat thread idea, and great cakes ladies!
Inspiration: I wanted flowers to match my bouquet and different flourishes.
Executed:
@JoJo Bananas: Gorgeous scroll work! I actually like your bottom tier better than the original, I'm a sucker for those kind of details.
The cake was one the things I was most nervous about, because I felt like I had very little control over it. You can do mockups of centrepieces, and invitations and obviously you try your dress on before the big day, but the cake just seemed to be this big mystery. Our baker did really pretty cakes, and SAID she could replicate the picture I gave her, but I didn't get to see the real finished product until it would have been too late to change it.
I love both of your guys' cakes with the scroll work. I went back and forth between wanting something with scroll work - which we had over all our paper products - and a much simpler design, but in the end simplicity won out.
EXECUTION - totally the word I was trying to think of that was escaping me when I wrote the title of this post :)
We didn't have an inspiration picture to show our baker. We just had this mystical hope and dream of what we wanted - and tbh didn't think we would be able to get within our minimal budget! What we showed the baker was this:
The top 2 pictures represent spaceships that my hubby and I fly in an online game called EVE Online. We really wanted to tie EVE into our wedding, because it was through this game that we met each other!! The bottom picture shows what it looks like when 2 teams of players meet in combat in the game.
Our idea was to have our 2 ships somehow incorporated into the cake layer and have the cupcakes represent 2 fleets fighting around/below/above us. We had no idea how to execute that though and make it work. After talking to several bakers, we found the baker that we ultimately decided to go with who suggested doing edible ink photos on the cake layer of the 2 ships and liked our suggestion for the "fleet fight" cupcakes. Here's what we ended up with:
Here's some better photos of the edible ink photos on the cake (one was in front and one behind - they were supposed to be side by side, but I love how it came out anyway). Me with my ship showing:
Anton with his ship showing:
Oh I like this! my inspiration and my actual cake look TOTALLY different :-( :-(
Inspiration:
Actual cake:
@PitBulLover: Yikes! That is not at all like your inspiration :(
@PitBulLover: wow that inspiration cake is beautiful! sorry it got a little lost in translation :( but at least your guests didn't know what it was supposed to look like, and it still looks like a pretty cake!
@dodgercpkl: What a great interpretation of what you wanted!
Enjoying everyone's pictures!
@PitBulLover: i'd submit that to cakewrecks.blogspot.com
They have great posts comparing wedding inspiration pics to failure to executes!
Inspiration cake is the first photo and our wedding cake is the second photo..
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@creme_de_violet: ohhh yours turned out great! :)
i am seriously so scared about the cake... i know the bakery i am using has gotten rave reviews and my cousin used them and her caker turned out perfect and exactly like the picture.... but i cant help but be super nervous... :( i swear if it it doesnt look like the picture i might scream!!! i mean... all they have to do is copy the design... how hard could it be?
My grandmother is making our cakes. I know how much she wants to and I know how good her cakes are, but I know she isn't very modern in her execution of cake design. So we are keeping it simple and having the florist add flowers to the cakes while she's decorating. My dream cake would have a woodgrain effect on it, but I'm not getting my hopes up that my gma can do it.
We didn't really have an inspiration photo because I wanted simple. I just told them cream, tiered and I wanted carved "banding" around the top.
Weird thing was that they called to ask what I wanted on the cake so I took them some artificial flowers and ribbon that matched our stuff and the cake showed up with different ribbon and handmade sugar flowers. So strange - but it was good!
I didnt have an inspiration I just told her to do whatever (gave her my theme for the weedding) She sent me a draft drawing and then gave me this :)
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@camrie: okay so I just have to say... I love EVERY pic you post of your wedding. I think we must have very similar taste because I would actually use anything you had at your wedding at mine! Your cake is making me second guess my design! lol
Inspiration and real photo! I was really happy with our cake table.
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@CorgiTales: Haha thanks! I'm going to say you have great taste! :)
I'm sure your cake will be great. I had no idea what ours was going to look like and didn't care enough to worry about it, so long as it showed up and was red velvet!
@creme_de_violet: wow that looks really neat, what is that wrapped around the cake? is it just embossed fondant? great job by your baker replicating the original.
@PitBulLover: hmm... not the best interpretation, I'm afraid. Hope it was delicious!
@dodgercpkl: very unique and a great way to bring in some personalization. I think it's great when people have some fun with their cake!
@creme_de_violet: they did an awesome job. I don't think I've ever seen a cake like that, so to be able to interpret it was great on their part.
@camrie: Ooh, love your cake. I (obviously) enjoy a simple all white cake a lot.
@Baileyh: those make me want cupcakes NOW!
So glad to hear most people's worked out and made them happy!
@SapphireSun: It actually was really delicious!! We only had a couple bites but our families said they ate it all night after our reception! :-)
Mine is a little far off, but I did it myself with zero experience so considering that I think it turned out fine.
Inspiration
Mine
@babymilka74: Not bad at all! I think sometimes the pictures that make it to inspiration are so HUGE that it's difficult to interpet them for a smaller group and still keep the look.
I'm really worried about this. My FI wants to really encorporate a dragon on to the cake somehow. I'm so nervous on how it's going to look but if it can be done well then I'm all for it. He wants a pretty cake with a dragon spiraling up the sides but I'm not sure.
I was not at all happy with our wedding cake...I started out with the inspiration photo and wanted it in red. I was told the scroll work would be very expensive but we agreed on the same look in the lattice type design.
I thought it looked like it was drawn with crayon and the monograms were very messy not at all elegant and delicate the way that the inspiration photo looked.
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@Derbybride: wait... is the 1st photo supposed to look like the 2nd photo? it isn't scrolly at all. It is just diagonal lines/boxes...
First is the inspiration photo, second is our cake (with some changes we requested).
@PitBulLover: Did the cake decorator even look at the picture of your inspiration cake?
@littlenikki: Thank you! I was worried that we would have to use fondant to get a nice finish (which I really dislike), but our baker did an awesome job using only buttercream icing!
This is such a great thread. There were some beautiful cakes on here! I wish I had a cake place that would do things like that. Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a selection (of decent ones) and the top one down here has crappy customer service (that would be who we have)
But, my inspriration photo would be the beach cake that was on here. Beautiful!!
@Loribeth: Lol, yes but it was Publix grocery store so I guess I got what I paid for!! Unfortunately countless people had told me that Publix made great cakes.....um, no. At least it tasted delicious!!!
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