Valentine's Day

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Woot! 2010 Brides Choice Award!! :D

Kansas City, MO – 01/19/2010 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Cakes by Combs has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for wedding cakes!

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Cakes by Combs is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Cakes by Combs is among the very best wedding cake designer within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/cakes-by-combs-belton/ac10da13adffb1d1.html.

About WeddingWire, Inc. WeddingWire is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding vendors. WeddingWire enables engaged couples to search, compare and book over 100,000 reviewed wedding vendors nationwide, from wedding photographers to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding vendors, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. In addition, WeddingWire has partnered with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) to provide its network of local vendors and online wedding-planning tools in the Weddings section of www.MarthaStewartWeddings.com. For additional information, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

The Coolest cake stand ever!!!!

This is a cake I did at the Arts Incubator in downtown Kansas City....really cool venue, even cooler cake stand! The brides dad cut this log for her cake stand to match her "twiggy" centerpieces! LOVE IT! The cake is iced in gold buttercream with white brushed embroidery, satin ribbon, and fresh flowers.

And for you, Mom...some pics of the kiddos!

Dorian....glasses he won in the arcade at the bowling alley on Christmas night.

Molly Lou playing with her new DS that Santa brought...

Dorian...if you know Dorian, this picture describes his personality perfectly...

O...M...G....this is blackmail material for sure!

My little baker...so cute!

Woo Hoo, new game for her pink DS! My handsome boys on Christmas morning.

Look what Santa brought to Momma's little angel....(cuz Momma backed over her old scooter!) Molly and our GREAT friend Fred, Merry Christmas!

Whew...time to get on the ball.

So, my laptop has been broken...so has my camera! I finally got the laptop fixed and bought a new camera so I can catch up on blogging!

Grooms cake for the hunter.... 5 tiers iced in buttercream with sheer ribbon at Bliss Plaza in Greenwood, MO.

And a 4 tier, iced in buttercream with coarse sugar and satin ribbon and fresh flowers at Living Waters Ministry in Kansas City, MO.

Halloween!

I LOVE Halloween...and I REALLY love Halloween weddings! This wedding was at Bingham-Waggoner Estate in Independence. I love this place and it was all decorated up for Halloween!~
Grooms cake that the bride made...she did such an awesome job...little zombie teddy bear.

This wedding was in the grooms fathers loft in the historic Western Auto building....very cool place, very cool view!

I'm such a bad blogger....

Let's see if I can't catch up...can't believe it's been 2 months, sigh.

Alright, let's see....This cake was at Boulevard Brewery downtown, iced in buttercream with fondant accents. All peanut butter cake with chocolate ganache filling, yum! This cake was iced in butter cream with a damask stencil and fresh floral....pumpkin spice cake!

A Halloween birthday party...

Nascar grooms cake....

AWWW, I love Hello Kitty! Iced in buttercream with fondant accents...

Computer grooms cake

and the cake that went with them, lemon berry marscapone...yowza

Union Pacific train engine

This is the birthday cake I made for my FAV tattoo guy, Joel. (PS-my next tat will be these swallows....I was hinting at something here!)

Cake I donated to the Raymore Pumpkin Auction....white cake, butterscotch cake, and chocolate cake.

Three tiers iced in buttercream with fondant accents at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Lee's Summit, MO

Three tiers iced in buttercream with fresh orchids at Emaline Ballroom in Lee's Summit

4 tiers iced in buttercream also at Emaline Ballroom

iced in buttercream at the Hyatt Regency with satin ribbon and fresh floral

Ok, I loved this wedding at Holy Spirit! This is the cake that the couple cut for pictures.

And they had these little bell jars telling their guests the flavor of cupcakes! So cute!

and here's their cupcake tree

Farm themed 1st birthday with fondant animals
Jeep Grooms cake to look like the grooms baby

Another example of my damask stencil...I sure do love this. This wedding was at Lee Andrew Interiors in Blue Springs

Love this candy-themed birthday cake

Iced in buttercream with satin ribbon at Loose Mansion

Alright, think I got most of the ones I missed....will have some super cool cakes to share with you after this Halloween weekend!