Decorating miniature weddings cars are actually much more complicated than their actual-sized counterparts. It took me nearly seven hours to complete decorating everyone one of them, including making the miniature roses.
Here is a bridal bouquet with pretty earthy hues of green dendrobiums and creamy champagne roses for a pre-wedding photo-shoot session. I always love to pair some dendrobium orchids with flowers of softer look such as roses, because it brings out an edgy touch to the overall feel of the bouquet. Don’t you think that the green dendrobium orchids in the bouquet resemble so much like butterflies?
Sometimes, I have clients who requested for artificial butterflies in their bridal bouquet and wedding centerpieces to complement their garden or fairy theme. You know, those butterflies made of wires, nylons, and tons of glitters. As I have always believed in using natural ingredients in floral designing, I usually prefer to substitute these artificial butterflies with orchids because it’s more organic and natural. Moreover, it is more cost-effective to use natural substitutes than artificial factory-made ones.
My best friends are tying the knot today! A sweet bouquet for the bride filled with luscious imported fresh cream roses accented with pink eustomas. I called it ‘My Strawberry Parfait’ because it looks so edible and soooo deliciously sweet!
My Strawberry Parfait
Congratulations to the lovely couple, Justin and Gracie!
This year also mark my 10th year of friendship with the couple! Time flies but I sure hope we all stay happy and healthy forever. =)
Cheers and lots of hugs to the newly wed!
On another note, thank god the bad haze had toned down a little bit. The past two weeks was dreadful! Have a great day y’all!
This fabulous cake was one of the main attractions at the fairytale wedding of the two lovebirds, Tony Parker and Eva Longoria, in Paris last year. Created by celebrity cake artisan Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings in Napa, California, who also made Oprah’s 50th birthday cake, over 1200 sugar-dough handcrafted red roses adorned this edible work of art. Apart from the insanely gorgeous roses, the cake itself was a vanilla-bean pound cake filled with crushed organic raspberry preserves and white buttercream.
This five-tier wedding cake in bold monochromatic red color is softened by its quilted fondant covering and the addition of cascading bows, made of colored white-chocolate fondant. However, pretty cake does not come cheap. This cake reportedly costs the couple a whopping US$40,000, since it was flown with an escort from Los Angeles to Paris – first class!
Source: Spring 2008, InStyle Weddings Magazine (U.S. edition).
This one is for the orchid lovers out there! Hand-crafted sugar-dough white orchids cascading against a three tier pale cantaloupe-colored cake. White dots of royal icing and the hexagonal shape of the cake convey a fresh and different tone from the usual round wedding cake. You can always opt for fresh dendrobium orchids instead of the sugar flowers for a more tropical vibe. Alternatively, you can also go for cymbidium or phalaenopsis orchids if your wedding theme and setting is going to be a more intimate and classy affair.
All featured cakes are taken from the Spring 2008, InStyle Weddings Magazine (U.S. edition).
The fourth floral wedding cakes in this series are these graphically delicious cakes. If your budget permits, try a “display of multiples instead of a normal, single colossal cake”. Varied sizes of anemones on the cakes resulted in a combination of a modern and Victorian twist in a very subtle way. All stamens were individually sculpted and were hand-placed inside the sugar-dough anemones to create a more realistic look to the flowers. You may also substitute the anemones with your favorite flowers to match your bridal bouquet. I envisioned these cakes to appear in a very stylish Victorian-themed wedding!
All featured cakes are taken from the Spring 2008, InStyle Weddings Magazine (U.S. edition).
For a long time, wedding has always been associated with white. Nothing speaks more than a bride donning her beautiful white wedding dress walking down the aisle holding a bouquet of white flowers. So, if you have always been dreaming of having a classic white wedding, this two tier rolled fondant with sugar-dough stripes and a bouquet of sugar-dough lily-of-the-valley spray will be the perfect cake for your big day!
All featured cakes are taken from the Spring 2008, InStyle Weddings Magazine (U.S. edition).
A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.