katherine sprules cake designs: A cake inspired by one kick ass dress

It all started with a dress.

Jessica and Peer are New Yorkers, through and through. They were in love and just wanted to be married. They are totally no fuss, no non-sense New Yorkers :) They decided they wanted a small wedding in their West Village neighborhood. In fact, when they got engaged Jessica didn't even go dress shopping. One of her girlfriends emailed her a picture of a dress... and Jessica loved it and bought it without a second thought.

That little dress her friend emailed her? A completely kick ass Alexander McQueen designer wedding dress. Did I mention Jessica is like 6 feet tall and gorgeous (and super duper smart)?!

Yeah, she can pull off a designer dress :)

When Jessica and Peer first contacted me about their wedding cake, they only knew two things.

1) Their venue: which was a super cute, neighborhood restaurant called the little owl

2) Jessica's amazing designer wedding dress (pictured above)

They were super open to different ideas and we had a great time throwing around ideas. Jessica and Peer wanted a classy, clean, garden party inspired cake. Jessica forwarded me a few pictures of flowers (roses, lilies and orchids) and told me to run with the cake design.

and that is what I did...

After talking with the lovely couple I came up with the following four ideas.

I usually provide couples with 2-3 sketches. After I created the three sketches for Jessica and Peer I couldn't help but do one more sketch inspired more by that kickass dress I told you all about earlier in this post... remember the Alexander McQueen one with awesome lace? Yeah, that one.

I really wanted to incorporate the awesome lace work of Jessica's dress in the cake design. I threw in the fourth sketch on a whim. But you know what? They loved the fourth sketch. They said it won by a landslide.