Photography, Cakes, and a Caterer

The last few weeks Tyler and I narrowed down our photographer to two choices. We met with them both and settled on Terrence from Beautiful Capture. He does mostly daytime weddings...which is us. I really enjoy his style and his pictures. He is in the middle of revising his packages that he offers to clients so he threw in a free engagement secession. Exciting!

Cakes...this was fun. Sunday we went to Matty Cakes. This is one of the cheaper bakers in Austin. However, their service was wonderful. The owner and I emailed each other several times with ideas before we went to taste the cakes. Upon our arrival, he warmly greeted us and placed two abnormally large plates in front of Tyler and myself. On the plates were the three cake flavors, fillings, and frosting. The cake flavors we chose were butter yellow, red velvet, and German chocolate. Neither Tyler nor myself were a fan of the red velvet cake. However, the other two cakes were AMAZING! I could not decide. Tyler decided on the butter yellow for us. Anything with the word butter in it must be good! We chose the chocolate butter cream filling and the sweet vanilla butter cream frosting. As for the design of the cake...let's just say the owner of Matty Cakes is brilliant and is giving us exactly what we want. You will have to be surprised.

The caterer. This was the most difficult part of planing this wedding. The amount of time devoted to finding a caterer in our budget was enormous. Alas! (I've always wanted to use that work in everyday conversation). We found one. All Fired Up catering is the catering company for Pok-e-Joe's barbecue. It is not barbecue, it is a little nicer! The menu consits of hours'd'ouves only:
*Texas White Wings bacon wrapped chicken breast with a sliver of jalapeno
*Pork Tenderloin & Red Onion Marmalade Crostini
*Texas Tapas - queso, guacamole, pineapple salsa, salsa verde, picante sauce, and tortilla chips
*Beverages - water, tea, Shiner Bock, Red and White wine, and champagne

Yummy!

-tam