It is time for a little Sweet!

Mar 8 | Wedding Dessert | by Cynthia

It is no secret that we love dessert. It doesn't matter if it is cake, tarts, cookies, fruit, chocolate, vanilla modern or vintage and everything in between. If it is sweet, we are all in! These dessert buffets are inspiration for your own sweet fest to share with your guests.

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Vendor Spotlight | Scratch Cupcakery

Today, we are showcasing Scratch Cupcakery. Holy buckets are these cupcakes good and they are oh so pretty to look at! Scratch has over 120 cupcakes flavors, three Iowa-based store fronts in Cedar Falls, Waterloo, West Des Moines, and another store in Coralville set to open next month. Scratch Cupcakery is a Preferred Wedding Book Vendor and also a sponsor of this Sunday's Preferred Bridal Show!

If you have never had a Scratch cupcake, you need to try one! Sunday's bridal show would be the prefect opportunity as Scratch always brings yummy cupcakes for our guests to enjoy. Check them out at Jasper Winery from 12-3 at The Preferred Bridal Show, we know you will love them!

Visit the Scratch Cupcakery website for more information or visit their Facebook page!
To learn more about The Preferred Bridal Show or to pre-register, visit their website or Facebook page!

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xoxo,

Ashley

Bridal Show Updates | We Love Decorating!

We can't lie, we love decorating!  If there is an opportunity to create beauty, fun, the unique or the different, we want to be involved in it!
Here are some pictures from a spring Bridal Show that we were involved with. We had a lot of fun designing a Head Table as well as coordinating Cake Table in elegant black and white.

Details can make a huge difference at any event. The addition of a

black feather reinforces the black and whtie theme as well as

adds a whimsical element to the table setting.

Mirrors are often used at a wedding.  We love them massed as a runner!

 

 

Decor Notes ~

Pictures | Peri Strong :: Venue | Howard Johnson, Burlington, IA :: Decor | Special Events, LLC :: Flowers | cynwhd b. designs :: Cupcakes | Burlington Hy-Vee

Vendor Spotlights: Scratch Cupcakery | Dutch Oven Bakery | Heideman Photography | My Photo Impression

We are lucky to have amazing vendors featured on WeddingsinIowa.com.
Here are some of our newest Premier businesses  that have recently joined our "family."  You can use their services with confidence, knowing that they care about your wedding almost as much as you do!

If you are looking for cupcakes, Scratch Cupcakery serves a mean cupcake!  These are perfect little gems of delicious, yummy cake in a variety of flavors and colors to serve to your Guests.  Scratch is located in Des Moines, Cedar Falls and Waterloo.

If you are more of a traditionist and want to serve a beautiful wedding cake, not to mention "work of art," to your guests then Van Hemert's Dutch Oven Bakery in Ames Iowa is worth the trip.  Gorgeous cakes, delicious desserts and pastries and excellent customer service. They also have a bakery in Boone.

If you are looking for a photographer, look no further than one of our very newest WeddingsinIowa.com Premier Photographers, Heideman Photography.  Located in Waukee, this artistic couple loves shooting weddings.  They are always looking for the new and different and are always up to a challenge.

If you are looking for something different to capture a special moment from your event, My Photo Impression is perfect.   This is not a photography company! Choose any photo and My Photo Impression carves the impression of the image into a translucent material, which captures the wonder of the special moment. When unlit, the piece resembles a marble carving. Just turn on the light, and the varying thickness of the impression creates the illusion of the original image.

 

DIY Projects | I love these.....

What did we do before Pinterest came along?  Hours and hours of web site browsing!  Now we just let others do our work for us and we reap the benefits, so when we came across this DIY project, we instantly fell in love.  Then we asked, how did they do that? 

Who would guess that this beautiful cupcake flower topper is a dried pineapple!  Beautiful and edible. We are wondering if you could use food paint to create more colors?

We are thinking that these would be adorable lined up on a dessert buffet.   Of course, your guests would ask, "How did they do that?" 

To learn how to make these, click here.....

Wedding Inspirations | Let Them Eat Cake....Cupcakes!

Move over Wedding Cake, Cupcakes and Dessert Buffets are taking over for the standard tiered cake dessert to serve at your wedding.  Need more inspiration?  These pictures of cupcakes have us drooling at the office!  Of course, no better time to try them out than for celebrating Valentine's Day next week. We are sure that we would not turn turn these beauties!

These are almost too pretty to eat, don't you think?  

Interested in serving cupcakes at your own event?  Contact us for bakeries that specialize in these and more. We would be happy to help you coordinate a lovely dessert buffet in your wedding colors or theme that shows off your style.  Guests love the fun and you receive the compliments!

Images courtesy of calligraphybyjennifer.net | Velveteen Baker | Martha Stewart | BHG | Steph Thom | Eat Live Shop | Cupcakes Take the Cake | Bella Cupcakes | Flicker

Vendor Spotlight | Let's Talk Cake

Whenever someone mentions cake, our ears perk up around the office.  Yes, we will admit that we love cake; the smell, the shape and the taste of that wonderful flour-egg-shortening-sugar creation.  So when Traci from Let's Talk Cake sends us pictures of her delicious creations, we have to share them with you.  These are beautiful!  
Traci's cakes travel all over the state, are custom created and are as delicious to eat as they are to look at.  Call Traci to have her help you create a one of a kind wedding dessert for your event.

This is a 7 tier cake with hand sculpted

sugar roses, lace and scrollwork

Wedding cakes don't always have to be traditional,

but they should reflect the bride and groom.  

This Texas Longhorn wedding cake was a 4 tier topsy

turvy on top of half sphere cake.

Glass tile design on wedding cake is not your traditional wedding cake. 

Accompanied with a pool table groom's cake, is a great way

for a groom to have his cake and eat it, too!

Pleated wrapped wedding cake with matching side cakes,

 adorned with hand sculpted sugar roses.

The ultimate groom's cake for the ultimate sportsman!

4 tier off center square with scroll work and custom hand made sugar cake topper.

For the bride who LOVES purple and a little bling.

4 tier off center square with quilted design and pearl inlay,

tipped with hand sculpted sugar roses.

2 tiered cake on top of lighted cupcake tower

filled with cupcakes topped with sugar flowers.

 

Cupcakes on lighted cupcake tower topped with

sugar flowers and custom monogram chocolates.

This cake offers a lot...texture, shape, beauty, elegance....

designed to take on the effect of the brides wedding gown.

Let's Talk Cake is a Premier Member of The Wedding Book