I Return Triumphant! (1St Real Wedding Cake)
Decorating By sweetamber Updated 28 Oct 2006 , 1:23pm by sweetamber
I am finally back from my friend's wedding and am thrilled with how well everything went! I was so worried about pulling it off, but it went better than I expected! I never would have had the confidence to try this if it hadn't been for Cake Central and everyone who is so knowledgable and helpful! This was a logistical nightmare (flying across the country with cake layers and fragile gumpaste and fondant decorations) But it worked out perfectly thanks to you guys 
I just posted pictures of the finished cakes in the gallery, so please go take a look....but I wanted to post a picture here of a minor repair job I had to do. I set up the cakes before the wedding and then rushed to the chapel (couldn't miss that part 
) and about 2 hours later when I got back to the reception site, I found that a couple of the flowers had not been placed correctly and had slipped. Here is a before and after shot, and a picture of both cakes together. Thanks for looking!
Good job! Very interesting design on the sheet cake. Glad things worked out!
Thanks for the comments 
. I am so pleased that I was able to do this for my friend- the cakes were my gift to her. I think my favorite thing about it was how excited all the women in the reception hall were about them- the catering manager asked me if they could use a picture of them in their advertising! I am so bummed that I live here instead of there, because they wanted my cards and I know I would have picked up some business from them 
. Oh well...My friend and her husband really loved their cakes and that's what matters most!
Amber
fantastic !!!! love the theme the tilel the colors everything !!!
WOW! The cakes look great! AND you traveled with them--omg--I'd be a nervous wreck!(and so would my cakes--lol).
Love the colors. Did you do the sheetcake too? How did you get the pattern?
WOW! The cakes look great! AND you traveled with them--omg--I'd be a nervous wreck!(and so would my cakes--lol).
Love the colors. Did you do the sheetcake too? How did you get the pattern?
I just traveled with the layers (unfrosted) and decorations. I made the smbc, cream cheese icing, and raspberry mousse there. For the sheet cake I made individual tiles out of fondant/gumtex and hand painted them with americolors thinned slightly with orange extract. You can get a better look at them if you peek in my pictures . I also coated them with confectioner's glaze to give them a glazed ceramic tile look and it worked perfectly!
Thank you so much everyone for your comments- they mean a lot coming from all of you ! It's hard for me to believe how much my decorating skill and creativity have expanded since I found CC 
Amber
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