Elegant Cakes by Carolyn Featured in Journal Gazette

During this past weekend Fort Wayne Bridal Extravaganza, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette featured a photo including Carolyn Pruden and her cakes. Delicious works of art in themselves, Carolyn offers wedding cakes, groom’s cakes, bridal shower cakes, and sugar-free and gluten-free cake options. For more photos and information on all that Elegant Cakes by Carolyn offers, check out her website.

Redneck or Not…A Truly Elegant Wedding Cake

Even when you think that you want a unique or different wedding cake, you should really look for an idea that personifies you and your groom. Most couples opt for a more traditional approach to their cake. Creative ideas are always something that you should share with your baker. A true cake artist will be able to create a masterpiece fit for a king and queen (or even a bride and groom).

 

Elegant Cakes by Carolyn provided the wedding cake for the recent episode of “My Big Redneck Wedding.”  Melissa and Bradley from Venedocia, Ohio had their cake and ate it too. Their cake included a pickup truck and trailer so who said that “elegant” and “redneck” should not go in the same sentence.

 

Thanks Carolyn for creating this signature, redneck masterpiece!!

Cake Cutting Theme Songs Set a Tone for Your Celebration

by MC-June Hoffman of Megasound

 

Cutting your wedding cake is one of the “big” traditional events at a wedding reception (right up there with toasts and the first dance). Whether you have a traditional wedding cake, cupcakes, or some other sweet treat, you use music to help set the tone for the rest of the evening.

The bride and groom feeding each other some sweet delicacy is a transitional event that helps kick off the celebration and move into the first dance. You can create excitement for the festivity or continue your wedding theme. It is also fun to get a paparazzi excitement going by asking your MC to announce for the cake cutting so that family and friends can bring cameras up to capture the moment.

Be careful with “how” you treat the cake cutting experience. You might think “ahead of time” that it is funny to “smash” cake in your new spouses face. Be aware that unpleasant results and messy pictures may result in this type of mayhem.

You might consider having your DJ/MC or band play one of these cake cutting themes or pick one of your favorite songs to kick off the party.

“Chapel of Love” by the Dixiecups
“Cut the Cake” by the Average White Band
“Grow old with Me” by Adam Sandler
“How Sweet it is (to be Loved by You)” by James Taylor
“I got You Babe” by Sonny and Cher
“Ice Cream” by Sarah McLachlan
“I’m so Excited” by the Pointer Sisters
“Love & Marriage” by Frank Sinatra
“Pour some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard
“That’s Amore’” by Dean Martin
“Sea of Love” by the Honeydrippers
“Sugar, Sugar” by the Archies
“Unforgettable” by Nat King and Natalie Cole
“What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong
“A Wink and a Smile” by Harry Connick Jr.

“My Big Redneck Wedding” Hits Close to Home

Just when you thought that you have seen it all…stay tuned for the Season 3 episode of “My Big Redneck Wedding” on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2pm EST. The Country Music Television channel hit show features Melissa and Bradley from Venedocia, Ohio. The Wedding Connection’s awesome cake artist Carolyn Pruden’s (of Elegant Cakes by Carolyn) wedding cake will be a part of the “redneck event.”

 

The episode proves to be very entertaining with this couple bringing together a mess of kids and a whole lot of fun. “From redneck jousting with soda bottles on a PVC pipe to the groom rapping his wedding vows, these lovebirds have put a twist on every wedding detail. This also includes a toilet paper theme, a striptease by Melissa at the altar and an “eat the pudding out of the diaper” competition with grandma for dessert. It’s a not-to-be-believed-until-seen show.”

 

 

 

 

 

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