Your Wedding Day magazine feature

This stunning black and white wedding by Izandi from I do was featured in the latest Your Wedding Day magazine. I had the privilage to make the damask print wedding cake.

Below are some of the photographs by Ryan Graham and a video clip by Missing Piece. What a beautiful bride!!

Video clip Nana-Marie & Follie

Giulio & Zelda

This festive wedding was held at Beloftebos near Stanford. Such a beautiful venue (not ideal to drive on a 14km dirt road to deliver a cake though) Zelda wanted an all white cake with icing replicas of the ruffle flower she had in her hair. The end result was a very romantic look.

Photographs by Nikki Meyer

Lace

One of the most popular designs so far has been the brush embroidery lace. What I mean by brush embroidery is that I pipe the outlines of a lace motif and then take a wet brush and brush the icing from the outside inwards. This creates a lace effect.

What I normally do is copy the lace on the brides dress for the cake design. This makes it more personal and unique to the specific wedding.

Here are a few examples of the lace and cakes...

Shades of grey

It seems like the color for weddings this season is grey. I've already had 5 wedding cakes which had mostly grey in it and there is still a few more to come. Whether it's a dove grey or charcoal it somehow maneuvers itself into a lot of people's color schemes. I love it! Especially grey cakes with white decorations.

First up is a cake which was one of my favorites from last wedding season.

Featured on Pasella

Nelle Cakes was featured on Pasella last night. Yay!

I had a wonderful time working with Jaco from Just Jack, Jo-lize from Floral Affairs, Carla from Secret Diary, the students from The Aleit Academy and of course everyone from Pasella (they have a lot of patience, is all I can say) It was an amazing team, who together created two beautiful tables for this shoot.

For those who missed it last night, here's some pics from the shoot. Photographs were taken by Inecke Photography. I will try to get a clip and then post it on my blog.



Isabel & Van Zyl

The wedding season has officially started and what a beautiful way to begin!

I'm so excited to share these amaaazing photographs by Nikki Meyer with you. Its just breathtaking. Isabel loves Cocoa Chanel so that was the obvious inspiration for her wedding. She sent me a beautiful mood board full of Chanel inspired pictures and eventually decided on a combination of two of my designs for her wedding cake.

See more photographs of this stylish wedding on Nikki Meyer's website



The beatiful couple cutting the cake



Black & White

Black and white is still one of the favorite color schemes for weddings. It's elegant, sophisticated and simple. It's also a very striking color combination for cakes.

Here's a few black and white cake designs.




Camelia Rose

 

Oh baby!

I've had quite a few babyshower and christening enquiries lately. Baby cakes are one my favourite things to decorate. You can have a lot of fun with themes, designs and color schemes. From pastel to bright, it all seems right! 

The cookies can be a nice gift for guests to take home and cupcakes are always a winner for tea parties.

Here are a few of my favourites.



Color of the year

I'm happy to share with you that Turquoise is Pantone's color of the year.

Not only is Turquoise one of my favourite colors, but its also the color of Nelle cakes. 

As Pantone explains: Turquoise is a universally flattering color that appeals to both men and women. It's inspired by sky & water. It reminds people of a tropical paradise and represents a comforting escape .With both warm and cool undertones, it pairs well with any other color.

Turquoise adds a splash of excitement to neutrals and browns, complements reds and pinks, creates a classic maritime look with deep blues, livens up all other greens, and is especially trend-setting with yellow-greens.

Here are some sweet things with different Turquoise undertones and color combinations. (I think it's quite obvious that I looove Turquoise)



Change is good

I have a few examples of cakes that have been changed in different ways. From the ribbon colour, to a the shape and color of the cake.

The cakes you see on my website are just a few examples of what I can do in terms of technique. I want to encourage everyone to think outside of the box. I can turn pretty much anything into a cake. From something as small as your favourite brooch (see kamersvol blog) or the pattern on your wedding invitation, I can make it happen!



Pink Cascading Pearl - Lizelle Lotter



Pink and Black Cascading Pearl



It's all in the name

When I had a look around for possibilities of a domain name for my website, I came across one of Nelle's namesakes, Nelle handbags in the USA.

Laura Nelli creates the most beautiful bags and accessories, I can't help myself but to visit her website on a regular basis. It was one bag in particular that caught my eye and was the inspiration for one of my wedding cake designs.

Nelle Handbags Tuxedo Cherub Clutch

Nelle Cakes' Frills