The Wedding Cafe: 10th Anniversary Celebration

Photos courtesy of Kris Labang and Kristin Kato

The Wedding Café recently celebrated their 10^th anniversary with a big bash at the Ward Theatres.  And what celebration wouldn’t be complete without a cake?  The evening started off with a casual, bistro café setup with lots of earthy brown and greens (from their current logo) for a color palate.

For this setup we created a family of cakes – 5 individual cakes to be exact (a mixture of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Filling and Devils Food Chocolate Cake with Oreo Cookies N Cream Filling), and Mini Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing.  The cakes were all finished with textured buttercream (rosette, ruffle, stucco, vertical and horizontal stripe patterns) in an ivory, off-white and white color scheme, with different logos on each cake, representing the evolution of the Café from the past 10 years.

From there, guests were escorted into the theatres for the program.  One of the neat things they did was introduce everyone to the original owners of the Café, and honor them for the creation of The Wedding Café.

While everyone was inside, they flipped the outside area and turned it into an after-party, complete with gorgeous uplighting, a dance floor – everything was so sparkly and pretty!  For this setup we created one big grand cake – a 4-tier white on white fondant cake.  We envisioned a cake with lots of texture and movement, and somewhat wedding-like, since it is The Wedding Café.

The cake was topped with a whimsical chandelier with hanging drop crystals, followed by a layer with subtle white pearl detail and TWC’s currently logo (the fork and spoon).  The next layer was white on white, with textured, pearlized sugar flowers and leaves, and the bottom layer consisted of a faux tier of ruffled rose petals.  Each tier was separated by a double row of Swarovski rhinestone crystal bands.

Congratulations to The Wedding Café for 10 wonderful years of business – we wish you many more!

Vendors:

Cake: A Cake Life

Venue: Ward Theatres

Photography: Kris Labang

Catering: Beaches and Backyards

A Chic Baby Shower for Alison

 Photos courtesy of Taryn Reid Photography

We were contacted by Shilhi of Passion Roots to provide a cake for a baby shower she was throwing for her Business and Client Relations Manager, Elana.  The baby shower was originally planned before Baby Alison was born, but due some complication they held off on the party till after Baby Ali was born.

The “chic soiree” held at the former Cupcake Boutique in Ward (now a pop-up shop) had a pink color scheme – using all shades of the color.  The table was set with vintage glass plates and cups, colorful cloth napkins, a bath salt and loofah favor table, and guests enjoyed an array of delectable bite-sized treats: chicken salad croissants, strawberries, truffles, muffins and tasty chips.

 

 

 

 

 

The main cake was a 3-tier buttercream iced cake, with the top and bottom tier embellished with textured buttercream.  The bottom tier included a silver pearl detailing trim, middle tier: sugar detailed appliques with top boarder ruffle trim, top tier: sugar brooch accent.  The topper (looking down) was a flower burst buttercream iced pattern with loop accents.

The cupcakes were Yellow butter cupcakes with Fresh Strawberry cream filling iced with white buttercream, textured silver and white sanding sugar and brooch accent.

The Cupcake bouquets were mini yellow butter cupcakes with white buttercream icing and crystal butterfly picks arranged in a vintage crystal vase

 

 

 

From Left to Right: Shilhi of Passion Roots, Karine of Seasons of Life, Ashley of Taryn Reid Photography and Me =)

We enjoyed working with Shilhi, and some other fabulous vendors.  Congratulations Elana, and welcome Baby Alison!

Vendors of Alison's Baby Shower:

Venue: Cupcake Boutique

Floral & Event Styling: Passion Roots

Event Coordination: Seasons of Life

Cake: A Cake Life

Photography: Taryn Reid Photography

Katie & Bobby's Wedding

 

It was an absolute pleasure working with fun and laid back Katie & Bobby for their November wedding at the luxurious Oceanfront Oasis Estate.  Karine Matsumoto of Seasons of Life Wedding & Event Planning introduced us to Katie & Bobby, a young San Francisco couple who were planning their Hawaii destination wedding.  Katie's vision of her wedding was a colorful party where their 70 guests could have fun.

For their wedding cake, Katie knew she wanted cupcakes instead of a traditional tier cake so her guests could party the night away and grab dessert at their leisure.  Katie decided on this modern style square arrangement that held 260 mini cupcakes made up of 9 different flavors.  Some of the flavors she chose were Red Velvet w/Cream Cheese icing, Devils Food Chocolate w/Chocolate Buttercream, Coconut Cupcakes w/Buttercream icing and Mocha Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream.  To top off this stunning cupcake tower was a 6" Yellow Butter Cake filled with Lilikoi Cream and iced with Buttercream.  The arrangement was decorated with colors from Katie and Bobby's wedding palette of turquoise, orange and chocolate brown.  Several of the mini cupcakes were topped off with delicate, handmade blue hydrangea flowers to match the couples invitations and orange bauhinia orchids matching the floral decor were placed around the cake topper.

The cupcakes were a big hit with Katie & Bobby and their guests.  Katie left this review on our WeddingWire.com vendor profile:

"Kristin made our beautiful cupcake tower for our wedding. Nine delicious flavors of over 250 mini-cupcakes arranged artfully with a small square topper - vanilla with lilikoi filling (heaven in cake form) - amazing! Our guests absolutely loved the cupcake tower idea and thought the cupcakes tasted better then most wedding cakes they'd had - even a Wienstock cake!  Kristin was an absolute pleasure to work with - she's responsive, creative, smart and can create whatever you envision. And if you're suffering from wedding decision making overload she'll gently lead you in the right direction. Cannot recommend her highly enough!"

 We had a lot of fun making Katie & Bobby's wedding cake.  Congratulations!  We wish you many years of love and happiness!

Images below courtesy of Rachael Robertson Photography