A Month of June Weddings

June is a beautiful month for a wedding and you would be surprised at the variety of styles, colors, and themes we see.

Chasity and Andrew celebrated their wedding this past weekend. Each guest received their own mini, two tiered cake. The style, cake and fillings variety for each design and oh the detail! Theses little beauties are almost to cute to eat.

Corie and George selected beautiful draped cake with touches of hydrangea. The silver polished monogram was the perfect final touch.

June wasn't all weddings so we thought we should show you just a little of a gorgeous graduation party. Hats off to Jodi and Jenn for their always fabulous event and floral design expertise! On to the cake!

Hats off to Jen Kroll for her beautiful image. It's hard to believe June is almost done with but we are really looking forward to kicking some wonderful cakes for the rest of the wedding season.

Kid Cakes

Even though we are starting to kick of our 2009 wedding season we are still able to sneak a few fabulous birthday cakes. An there is nothing better then seeing a 4 year olds favorite cartoon come to life.

Who doesn't love the Backyardigans?!

The gangs all here!

We are able to create almost anything your kids can think of and here are few of our favorites. Boy kids sure do have creative imaginations!

Cookies are always a crowd favorite!

And finally, who doesn't like to host a great Cinco de Mayo fiesta?

Like I said wedding season is up and running so it's back to the kitchen for me but feel free to give us a call so we can bake you something sweet for any occasion!

Wedding season has begun...

...and we'll begin those next week :) This week we have quite a variety of different celebration cakes.


Here is Dominic's birthday cake for his second birthday. We did his first birthday cake last year, and we happy to do another one for him this year! Hopefully he'll stay with us for his cakes all the way up to his wedding :)

This awesome orchid cake was for a baby shower! How cool is that? So totally different. Jennifer dropped off a plate and a napkin for us to get creative off of. I think the result is great!

I love this one year olds birthday cake. The flowers remind me of some sort of zinnia, maybe. Lots of bright and fun colors for this one-year-olds birthday... oh and her cute little smash cake to go with it.

Who wouldn't want an i-pod to cut into for their birthday?! This birthday boy's mom even knew his favorite songs to have written on the cake - that is one loving mom!

We did a baby shower cake similar to this before, but it was just one tier. Covering the 3 tiers of cake we these dots is just perfect for a modern, hip, classic mother-to-be. The top is adorned with some baby bottles, a few diaper bags, a pair of sun glasses and a snuggly baby blanket. I'm not a fan of big, poofy bows on cakes, but these simple bows are just adorable.

An adorable monkey baby shower cake was ordered from one of our favorite clients - who I hear throws amazing showers.

A simple birthday cake featuring spring colors and tulips is perfect for a mothers birthday.

We will most definitely have wedding cake pictures from this weekend next week to talk about and post. I cannot count the weddings on one hand and I don't think I could count the wedding and specialty cake orders on two hands... so be prepared for photo overload! - Sara :)

Gearing up

Hey Readers!

It has been a long time! We have spent the last few weeks prepping for our upcoming wedding season as well as preparing for last week's grand opening of A Modern Event. The opening went fantastically, we met and were re-united with a ton of great vendors and brides that night. So a large thank you to all who came and took part in the event!

As we begin gearing up and jump into the 2009 wedding season, we wanted to share with you some new cake flavors as well as some updates on our season's bookings this year.

First for the new delicious flavor combinations:
~ a caramel turtle mix, which consists of chocolate fudge cake, caramel buttercream, chocolate ganache, and if you'd like, a layer of praline pecan.
~ strawberry lime, consisting of our white chocolate cake, layered with lime buttercream and fresh sliced strawberries. I also think this combo would be delicious with our lemon cake (my fav!)
~ lemon blueberry... we use our lemon cake and layer it with blueberry compote and french vanilla - or lemon! - buttercream. The blueberry compote is made from fresh blueberries and is just fantastic.
~ a ginger pear flavored buttercream is currently in the works after one of our fall brides suggested it. I think it sounds delicious layered in a spice cake... fall has awesome, warm flavors to play with!
~ we love trying to flavor combinations and love suggestions from all you out there! We added two new flavors last summer that became hits after a local photographer's son's had some unique requests. Give us some ideas! We are also working on a triple berry compote for a wedding this coming season also... ideas are endless!

So, we are excited to say that we are booked for the rest of May, June, and July! We've got some awesome brides with awesome cakes this year! August is getting pretty full too, so is September and October... in fact, we are booking into 2010! Remember, we usually start booking about 8 to 9 months out for weddings, and June is usually the first booked.

If you have a cake order you need over the summer, 2 weeks notice is very preferred, its almost a sure-fire way to make sure we'll be able to do a cake for you! Graduations are just about booked up too! We are busy, and want to make sure we do not take too many orders that may comprimise our quality in flavor and design. We will be able to take a few small orders during the next couple months, but cannot guarantee every one. So, please call as soon as you know you need or want something to check our availability...we will try our best! We had one of our clients book her JUNE birthday cake in JANUARY this year. Awesome :)


Now onto some cakes:

This wedding cake used a combination of beautiful, rich colors - deep purple, charcoal black, with pewter highlights.

For a little boy's first birthday! I love love the colors, and think the elephants are just great!

Kristen has great tastes. I love this bird cake! We had one very similar on display in our lobby for awhile... she loved it and we were happy to duplicate it for her!

A mini cake wedding with bright hues of orange, blue and yellow. The cakes were accented with delicate royal icing butterflies.

These colors are great. This was for a local make-up artist's son's second birthday. Hope you loved your cake Jack!

We'll have more cake pictures and fun stuff coming soon. Wedding season begins in full swing next weekend! - Sara :)

BIG NEWS!!!

We are branching out even more!

We are excited to announce that we are now a part of A Modern Event, which is a group of professional vendors that have formed Michigan's first ever event design boutique, located right here in Grand Rapids. We've teamed up with the great Modern Day Floral, Ben Harrison Photography and In Any Event to make this boutique come to life.



Please join us for our grand open house on April 23 from 5-8pm to browse the new boutique, meet the vendors. Don't forget to RSVP to events@amodernevent.com. We hope to see you there!

Hope you're wearing your green today...

Happy St. Patrick's Day from everyone here at the shop!


To get started with some pictures from the past couple weeks, here is Isaiah's first birthday cake! His mom chose some really cute plates to use at his party which we used as inspiration to decorate his cake! My favorite part is the number 1 on top with the party hat, or the lion with the cupcake - too cute :)

Adoption is a wonderful way to expand your family, and a wonderful gift to give a child. This cake was for a couples shower, welcoming in their adoptive daughter. We copied a design from the invitation onto this cake, painting it directly onto the icing.


A Sweet Cakes one-of-a-kind design. The bride gave us her colors, and her ideas, and let us run with them. Once a couple books their wedding date with us, we are more than happy to draw and design sketches for them of potential cake designs. Its great for us to do - the couples will know exactly what to expect from us on their wedding day, and they get a unique cake designed just for THEM - Not just a cake picked out from a magazine for us to copy. This cake had a butter yellow colored fondant ribbon wrapped around the bottom of each tier, and was accented with a beautiful red fondant scroll coming from different corners on each tier.

A hip, modern cake design was requested for this mother-to-be. Her first baby, a little girl, is on the way, and they wanted to welcome her in with style. Diaper bags, a baby blanket, some bottles, and of course, some sleek sunglasses were added to the top of this polka-dotted ribbon wrapped cake. I love how this turned out!

Enjoy this beautifully warm weather we are and have been having the past couple days. From what I'm hearing, its not going to last too long. It's Michigan after all, and its only March! I'd like to get my hopes up that it won't ...snow... again, but let's be honest, IT'S MICHIGAN.

more soon! - Sara :)

SUPRISE and excitement!

We are more than happy, eager, excited, glowing (more adjectives please)... to announce that we will be featured in not one, but TWO bridal magazines this coming year!

The first will be in Bride and Bloom, this years April issue.

They are an awesome, high-end wedding magazine, covering everything from cakes, flowers, invitations, gorgeous receptions, wedding dresses, and much, much more. And they are FINALLY highlighting a fabulous place to hold a wedding - Grand Rapids! We were more than pleasured to work with other great vendors such as Jodi Bos of In Any Event, Jen Kroll Photography, and Modern Day Floral. You'll have to wait for the magazine to see anything!

And the featured wedding that will be in theKnot magazine is of Liz and Kurt, back in August of 2008 at Cascade Country Club. I loved their colors, their style, and of course, their cake! Mmm... plaid. Most of the same vendors that we worked with on the Bride and Bloom shoot will also be highlighted in this article to appear this spring I believe.

We are excited... look for our name in lights! - Sara