{"id":3352,"date":"2010-01-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2010-01-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:00:00","slug":"best-of-2009-cakes-colorado-springs-wedding-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/best-of-2009-cakes-colorado-springs-wedding-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"best of 2009 &#124; cakes &#124; colorado springs wedding photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy New Year!\u00a0 We are going to be celebrating all month long by sharing some of our favorites from the year.\u00a0 To kick us off, it&#8217;s cake time!\u00a0 (Can you tell I&#8217;m 8 months pregnant?!\u00a0 :P)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The award for the most delicious cake of the year&#8230;heck, the DECADE, goes to Iliana and Freddy&#8217;s cake from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoeats.com\/market\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Market<\/a> in Denver.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good thing we don&#8217;t live in Denver, because if we did, I&#8217;d NEVER lose this baby weight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3353\" title=\"coloradospringsweddingphotographercake1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/coloradospringsweddingphotographercake1.jpg\" alt=\"coloradospringsweddingphotographercake1\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The award for the cake so pretty I cried a little when they cut into it goes to Jay and Ashley&#8217;s Martha Stewart inspired cake from Amy Bruntz (Amy&#8217;s Unique Cakes &#8211; 720-882-6546).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3356\" title=\"weddingphotographerscoloradospringsbestcake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/weddingphotographerscoloradospringsbestcake.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerscoloradospringsbestcake\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My favorite cake topper of the year belongs to Jaime and Aaron.\u00a0 (Okay, this is a bit of a cheat&#8230;because it was MY cake topper, too!)\u00a0 This cake topper blessed the cake of the happiest couple in all the world&#8211;my Nana and Poppa.\u00a0 They married in 1946, when wedding luxuries were still in short supply.\u00a0 My Nana had to bring her own sugar to her cake baker, and she told me that she had actually been very disappointed in her cake topper.\u00a0 It&#8217;s &#8220;out of fashion&#8221; bride and groom from the 1930s was not what she had in mind.\u00a0 But 60 years later we&#8217;re all a bit partial to it!\u00a0 (I can&#8217;t find my picture of my Nana and Poppa on their wedding day&#8211;which means we&#8217;re missing out on a seriously cool &#8220;three generations of cake toppers&#8221; storyboard.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3355\" title=\"bestvintagecaketopperwedding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bestvintagecaketopperwedding.jpg\" alt=\"bestvintagecaketopperwedding\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The award for the best cake smashing moment goes to Carrie and Kevin.\u00a0 (this will probably show up again in our &#8220;2009 outtakes&#8221; file&#8211;it&#8217;s just too good.)\u00a0 The woman&#8217;s expression is PRICELESS!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3357\" title=\"weddingphotographerscoloradospringsbestcakesmash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/weddingphotographerscoloradospringsbestcakesmash.jpg\" alt=\"weddingphotographerscoloradospringsbestcakesmash\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The award for the most Ace of Cakes-iest cake goes to Kina and Wes&#8217;s C-17 groom&#8217;s cake from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchpastry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Boonzaaijer&#8217;s Dutch Bakery!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3360\" title=\"weddingcakec-17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/weddingcakec-17.jpg\" alt=\"weddingcakec-17\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And last but not least, I think my favorite cake photo of the year is of Amanda and Steven&#8217;s cake from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebrookmanor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stonebrook Manor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3354\" title=\"bestcakecoloradospringsweddingphotographers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bestcakecoloradospringsweddingphotographers.jpg\" alt=\"bestcakecoloradospringsweddingphotographers\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!\u00a0 We are going to be celebrating all month long by sharing some of our favorites from the year.\u00a0 To kick us off, it&#8217;s cake time!\u00a0 (Can you tell I&#8217;m 8 months pregnant?!\u00a0 :P) The award for the most delicious cake of the year&#8230;heck, the DECADE, goes to Iliana and Freddy&#8217;s cake from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[268,175],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-photographer-colorado-springs","tag-best-of-2009","tag-colorado-springs-wedding-photographer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}