Calling all brides, bride-hopefuls, and bridal vendors!  What are YOU doing Sunday, September 26, 2010!!?!?!?  If your answer is “sitting on the couch,” then your answer is wrong!  If your answer is “Attending the Franklin Bridal Ball”, then your answer is CORRECT!!!!

The Franklin Bridal Ball is Williamson County’s most elite upscale bridal event. Not only is it a chance to meet the area’s finest wedding professionals face-to-face and find those that share your vision for your perfect wedding day but it’s also an opportunity to try samples, win prizes and receive budget saving discounts!

Stop by the Main Event Productions booth and allow us the honor of meeting you and introducing you to our award-winning, memorable, excellence-driven service!  You will not be sorry you did!

We are also giving away tickets to attend the ball, so email us at dawn@thebakeshoppe.com or call us at 615-321-2394 to take advantage of this free gift!

Franklin Bridal Ball

Sunday, September 26, 2010, 12 pm – 4 pm
Franklin Marriott Cool Springs
700 Cool Springs Blvd.
Franklin, TN 37067

It is that time of year again!  No, not Thanksgiving or Christmas just yet!  It’s actually voting time!

The Nashville Scene’s Best of Nashville, is an annual reader’s choice poll, in which you write in your favorites from categories such as Food & Drink, Arts & Entertainment, Media, Home, Shopping, Kids and more.  The voting layout is simple and you don’t have to sign up for anything in order for your vote to count!  You can even vote multiple times (once a day).

So, here’s what Main Event Productions is asking of our friends!   Show your love for The Bake Shoppe for best Local Cake Baker, A Catered Affair for Best Cater and Best Chef, and any other category that you see fitting!  Help us be seen in the scene!

If you have yet to experience our remarkable service, please call Kellie at 615-321-2394 or email cater@acateredaffair.net

I think that if Kellie Bryson, creator and owner of Main Event Productions, could have Willy Wonka’s Chocolate river flowing through her office, she would in a heartbeat! Then again, who wouldn’t?!?!

When Kellie answered the question of the best thing she ever ate, her initial response was “CHOCOLATE!  CHOCOLATE!  CHOCOLATE!”  Obviously, chocolate comes in many forms and fashions.  With that being said, here’s Kellie’s top 3 Bake Shoppe’s Chocolate Delights:

1.  Chocolate Kahlua Fudge Cake drizzled in chocolate ganache-  This cake flavor was actually served at her wedding for the groom’s cake!

2.  Chocolate Panna Cotta-  This serves as a healthier version of chocolate pudding and mousse because it is made with milk and not cream.  Though light and silky, it is rich enough to seem sinful!

3.  Tiramisu- Epitome of perfection when this airy sponge cake meets a coffee-Marsala mixture and layered with Mascarpone and chocolate for the sweetest finish!

Though Kellie Bryson is a fine chocolate extraordinaire, there are some things that can’t replace good ole’, store bought, tollhouse chocolate chip cookies and Oreos!

Main Event Productions and The Bake Shoppe are redefining the meaning of “Birthday Cakes!”  Though there is a pleasant simplicity about a standard birthday sheet cake, we are coming into contact with more and more customers who are thinking  birthday cakes out of the box! Every pun intended!  3D cakes are the way to go!  Check out a few pictures from our latest sweet 16 Birthday cake!

Perhaps some of you reading this might think we are slightly crazy for thinking that the Christmas season has already approached!  Though I will not deny nor confirm that we aren’t all a little crazy, it is never too early to at least be brainstorming some ideas on how to make this year’s Christmas party or event stand out above all the rest!

The holiday season is my favorite time of year!  When it comes to family and friend gatherings and parties there is always the process of incorporating old traditions with contemporary twists, revisiting sweet memories and creating new ones!

Main Event Productions and all of it’s family members–Events @1418, A Catered Affair, The Bake Shoppe, and Fantastic Flipbooks–excel in creating just that balance!  So, this year, instead of waiting till the last minute, plan now and have a stress-free, glamorous, magical, tasty, memorable, one-of-a-kind holiday experience for you,your family, friends, co-workers, and/or company!

Pictures provided by Dove Wedding Photography

If you missed out on this summer’s Nashville Premier Bridal Show at the Convention Center, then you missed out on one crazy fun day of brides, rings, vendors, gift bags, cake, and food!!!!!!

For all the new friends we met….WONDERFUL TO MEET YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

For all our fellow vendor friends…..WONDERFUL TO CATCH UP WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!

For all who could not make it out on Sunday, here’s a glimpse of Fantastic Flipbooks debut and The Bake Shoppe’s new cake designs for the fall 2010!

The Wedding; Premier Bridal Show August 2010

Brides, don’t forget, you must book by September 1, 2010 in order to qualify for the show special!  Please call for details!

Behind every beautiful cake is a beautiful cake decorator!  Main Event Productions and The Bake Shoppe would like to introduce to you Shelly Barger Santana, cake decorator extraordinaire! Here’s only a small glimpse of some of her marvelous work!

You can’t help but adore Shelly!  If her dazzling eyes don’t captivate you, then her sweet spirit, striking smile, and spectacular cake decorating skills will astonish you!  Shelly started decorating cakes at the precious ago of 14 and it has been a part of her life ever since!  Here’s just a few facts about Shelly:

• First Wedding cake: tired, white buttercream with purple roses at the edges
• Most challenging cake: 3D standing golf bag cake
• Favorite cake flavor: The Bake Shoppe’s legendary Kahlua Chocolate..yummmmmmmmmm!
• Favorite kind of music to have in the background while decorating: romantic music!  Sending out those good thoughts and vibes to the lovely couples getting married!
• Inspiration: architecture, nature, colors, etc.
• Other hobbies: art, hiking, show coordinator for a networking artist organization called Untitled Nashville

There is no doubt that The Bake Shoppe has hit the jackpot of all jackpots with Shelly on the team.  She is a priceless asset and we’re so thankful to be working beside her!

For all you Brides and soon-to-be Brides, the Nashville Premier Bridal show is a MUST!  Not only can you plan, design, and book all your wedding day details in ONE AFTERNOON, you get covered in free stuff, coupons, chances to win trips, and my favorite…all the cake your little heart desires!

For all you exhibitors, this is the perfect time to see fellow industry friends, make connections with lovely brides, reach your marketing and sales goals, and get a good work out from loading and unloading!!!!

Main Event Productions will be featuring The Bake Shoppe and…drum roll please….FANTASTIC FLIPBOOKS….at this year’s Premier Bridal Show at the Nashville Convention Center August 1, 2010.  Here’s a few pictures of previous Bridal Shows!

Make sure you also check out the Nashville Premier Bridal show website for details!

http://nashville-bridalshow.com/#content=%3Fshow.id%3D757

Tags: bridal show, cake, catering in Nashville, cupcakes, Grooms Cake, nashville wedding cakes, wedding cake, wedding show

If you’re not from the south you may be wondering what is up with the extra cake accompanying the bridal cake!  The groom’s cake made it’s theatrical appearance in Steel Magnolias in 1989, but that was not the first groom’s cake!

The history of the groom’s cake is difficult to trace.  Here are a few legends:

• some believe it was served by the groom to the bridesmaids
• others say a bride wanted a chocolate cake for her wedding without forgoing the white color scheme.
• some believe it was to be served by the groom, with a glass of wine, to the bridesmaids
• some believe it was to be saved and subsequently shared with friends after the honeymoon
• in ancient times, it was believed that if a single woman put a piece of the groom’s cake under her pillow, she would dream that night of the man she would marry.

Regardless of it’s origins,  it’s a long southern tradition with unlimited potential to reflect the groom’s interests, flavors, and themes!

Here at The Bake Shoppe our Nashville Bride and Grooms come up with some of the most creative and out of this world designs for their Groom’s cake.  Here’s just a glimpse of such cakes….

Baseball Glove Cake

Sci-fi Inspired Cake

Sports Inspired Shoebox

Golf Inspired Chocolate Cake

Cigar Box

TN Football Helmet Cake

Football Stadium Cake

Dartboard Cake

Motorcycle Themed Cake

TN Football Field Cake

Baseball Hat Cake

Drum Cake

Recently we found a box of ancient photos and negatives ( yes, we have been around long enough to have negatives!) and the team thought it would be fun to do a little show-and-tell.

Today we begin Time Warp Wednesdays -a Blast from the Past!

First Cake from The Bake Shoppe - circa 1997

Hmmm, part of me hestitates to tell you about it – but here goes:)  This was the VERY first wedding cake ever made by The Bake Shoppe.  Many of you have heard me tell the progression of the business — began with desserts and added catering and so on.  This was the first cake — delivered to a bridal show in Smyrna Tennessee — I was so incredibly nervous, I was sick over it!

We were so new at it – we didn’t have a portfolio of pictures – so we copied ideas from Collete Peters – decorating diva with amazing talent.  I believe that we ended up making most every design she published!  Thank you Collete for putting out good instructions.

Today we are proud to say we no longer add fabric to the cake ( that is tulle hanging off there!)   and we have a very talented pool of artists who make really fun stuff — and they know what they are doing and don’t have to get sick over it.

Of course, this was the very best the company could do at that time – we were very proud of that moment!  As always, I say let’s move on and do something new and better!