Posts Tagged “wedding cakes”

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

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!

We get requests for “packages” AND we get requests for individual items.  Which is best for a wedding?  Everyone shops differently — some people like the fit and feel of a package — many of our brides who ask for a package, then make so many revisions to it that it no longer resemble the original “package”.  Some brides choose so many things individually, they all would have been present in a package.

There is no right, there is no wrong – just make sure that you understand each and everything that you are ordering and paying for.  Ask questions until you get the answer — make sure you understand the answer.  Dont be afraid of your wedding vendors — all of us love weddings and want to make our brides happy.  So ask away!

Here are some photos from some of our recent “packages”  that include flowers, cakes, catering, linens…..you can see some different packages at our website.

Flower Centerpieces for an event located at Events@1418

Deck decor for event located at Events@1418

Blackened Artichokes with Kalamata Olive Hors d Oeuvres

Chip and Dip Bar

Art Deco Green and White Round Cake

White Chocolate Shavings on 3 tiered Wedding Cake

We had the pleasure to be a part of Weddings the Bridal Show this past weekend at The Nashville Convention Center.  Last week we showed a sneak peek of the new wedding cake designs that our decorating team created for the show.  Here are the final results.

We designed these new cakes off of beautiful wedding dresses from Arzelle’s . These dresses gave us inspiration to show many different ways that you can incorporate your dream wedding dress into your dream wedding cake!

Here is a look at all the new cake designs  we took to the show!  a BIG thank you to Kristyn Hogan for taking these photos

Cake inspired by pleated wedding dress with a silver broach.

This beautiful leaf pattern was inspired by a lace overlay that was featured on a dress at Arzelle's

This cake was inspired by a dress with beautiful flowers and drapes that flowed down the side of the dress.This breath taking design was hand piped to replicate the detailed lace on the elegant wedding dress.

This breath-taking design was hand piped to replicate the detailed lace on the elegant wedding dress.

This cake was inspired by 2 dresses that we loved and wanted to create a design that brought several patterns together as one.