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The lead time for the production of the cake takes 7-10 days which involves procurement of supplies and the preparation of the “dummy cakes”

FYI. Not all the cakes that you see in a wedding are made up of  100% “real” cakes. Some of these layers are just made up of styrofoam inside, especially if the client orders a very tall cake. Most of the clients prefer not to cut the whole cake since these cakes are often used for centerpiece during the reception.

Here’s a sample of the very exquisite sugar flowers made by Judy Uson.

10 days before the event: 

Judy and her team are preparing the sugar flowers already… For this wedding, they had to finish 700 flowers of different sizes…

The first 2 to 3 days of the production involved cutting and shaping the different flower petals and buds and drying them.

6 Days before the event:

Sugar flowers were individually colored to the right shade to match the color theme of the wedding.

The dummy cakes were put together  4 days in advance of the wedding date.  That means the cakes were covered in fondant, stenciled and decorated with sugar flowers.

10 hours before the reception:

Judy and her team are finishing up the details of the cakes.

Judy and her assistant carefully removes the stencil to maintain symmetry of the pattern.

Here’s the cake after being stencilled.

8 hours before the reception:

The real cake was baked the day before the event and now its time to take it out of the oven…

Making the fondant to cover the cake was a long and tedious process that is similar to making dough.

7 hours before the reception:

Once the cake is cooled, it is covered with the fondant.

With the whole cake covered with fondant, decorating them was the next step.

The layers of cake were alternately decorated with stenciled icing  and meticulous icing embroidery.

When done, the cake was then studded with rhinestones and Swarovski crystals to give the cake a sparkling shimmering effect.  Imagine 1000 pieces of crystals carefully affixed in the cake.

6 hours before the reception:

The cake was then assembled at the kitchen to see how it would look like at actual venue.

4 hours before the reception: (2 pm)

The cake has arrived at the wedding reception.

The cake was brought down from van and assembled together with the glass pillars with dangling crystal curtains.

The staffs of Judy are doing some finishing touches.

3 hours before the reception: (3 pm)

Judy’s team are now gluing the glass pillars to make it stable for the cake layers.

Since this cake was 6 ft tall, the crew had to bring in a ladder for the top layers of the cake.

2 hours before the reception: (4pm)

It took almost two hours just to put the cake altogether and do the finishing touches and decorations of the cake at the reception. Just enough time to clean up and pack-up the setting up materials.

Here’s the Final Output of the 6 ft tall cake.

I never thought that wedding cakes can be as complex to prepare and assemble. Watching Judy and her team construct the cake from scratch gave me a new appreciation of wedding cakes as to how tough and intricate its details can be.

A photo of Judy Uson with her 6 ft tall cake masterpiece.

This is Dominic Barrios, reporting for Weddings at Work (W@W) Assignment.

Aya was one of the models featured in some men’s magazine. Just make a guess.

I suggested that since these two were in the “artists” category, I have the perfect concept for their prenup shoot…. “Adam and Eve”…

The problem was, only one of them was “up” for the challenge. Guess who…

Lovin’ the catchlight in Aya’s eyes…

Before the day ended, God still made the “Adam and Eve” concept possible… He did it in the most unexpected way…

The stories of Capt. Tobias and Lola Nena and the love that their families and friends has shared to them were extraordinarily heart-melting already.

Erp and Aya’s red-orange-peachy skies…That was God’s work.

Now who wouldn’t want to be the Lord’s instrument to create beautiful pictures …

How would I describe my year 2011? …Totally Awesome…

Looking forward to a more rockin’ 2012…

I once met Kristine from her brother’s wedding and Ryan was there taking pictures of their family. Didn’t know that just a few years later, these guys are getting hitched as well.

Fast forward to this day, everything went perfectly as planned. We had lots of time to shoot for preps and for our portraits and it must’ve been easier because of the people I was working with. Glad to be working with two of the most sought wedding suppliers of 2011. *wink*.

Here’s an interesting fact about Ryan and Kurly… Early in their relationship, Kurly told Ryan that she never wanted to receive roses because she finds these too typical. So Ryan squeezed his creative juices (or relied on his suki – Flower Farm in Alabang) to give Kurly different kinds of flowers. There were times when Ryan gave Kurly lisianthus, more commonly known as paper roses, which she really loved. But on her wedding day, the flowers requested by the bride for her bouquet are roses. (She really wanted English roses, but since these are difficult to source, Eduardian roses will do)

If you want to read about their story, please visit here.

Lovin the Grecian theme gown made by Tito Boy

Kurly’s mom crying and laughing at the same time… made me laugh as well…

One of my favorite moments that day… getting ready for the kiss…

Congrats Ryan & Kurly…

Point is, when we see celebrations of LOVE like these…I feel that it is just “a right thing” that we must honor the people who stayed  committed to their vows in front of God and their loved ones.

Congratulations to Capt. Romulo Tobias and Lola Nena Tobias for 50 years of holding, keeping and cherishing their commitment to each other.

Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…”

But don’t take my word for it, just look at them…

PS. We had this session on Aerick’s ancestral house at Batangas and we had an awesome time shooting and EATING… Yum!

(Disclaimer: Nevo gave the hotline number to Leanne for those people who plan to commit suicide. A hint that Nevo won’t take No for an answer…. Crazy Guy! haha )

So Leanne said “Yes”. LOL.

Want to see how their wedding looked like?

Preps: Marriott Hotel
Reception: The Blue Leaf
Couture by: Veejay Floresca
Flowers by: Badang Rueda
Coordination by: Teena Barretto (Hitched)
Video by: Jason Magbanua
Shots by Dominic Barrios http://dominicbarrios.com/
for Imagine Nation

This is just another milestone for my journey as a wedding photographer and a testimony on how God has blessed me all throughout.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

After 7 years… they’re getting hitched… God, you’re so goooood…