Dessert Table: Vintage Ribbon Garland

Green Wedding Shoes featured this vintage-themed dessert table. The bride created a ribbon garland with framed pictures to create a personalized backdrop for the table.

Working with Sweet and Saucy, the couple selected a variety of cupcakes, fruit tarts, and other sweets to accompany their simple cake.

In today's 10 Days of Craftsmas post, I'll share another DIY project that would also make a lovely dessert table backdrop. So be sure to come back later today to see that project.

images: Jeff Wallace

Reader Design: Woodsy Wedding Dessert Table

Amanda of Buttercup Cake Design contacted me a few weeks ago with a really nice email. Amanda is a Canadian baker who designs dessert tables to showcase at farmer's markets. Yesterday, she contacted me again to share images of one of her recent works and to let me know that she plains to incorporate my Halloween printables into her display this week!

Amanda designed this woodsy Autumnal dessert table for her sister's wedding.

I especially love the wild, but refined look of this cake. Since Amanda knew it would be blazing hot during the August nuptials, she created this styrofoam cake and added a real top tier for the couple to cut.  Amanda cleverly incorporated authentic natural elements into the design to add a rustic feel. Her wood stumps serve as risers and platters. You can also use real bark like I did here and here.

Amanda chronicles her journey in the dessert table design world on her blog Sweet Pursuits. She has a fabulous outlook on celebrating the ups of the business so that the downs are a little less upsetting. One of her most recent celebrations? This dessert table was published by Vancouver's Real Wedding Magazine.

Congrats Amanda, and thanks for submitting your dessert table!

So tell me, what's your favorite element of Amanda's design?

Pretty Little Cakes All in a Row

I stumbled across this gorgeous collection of cakes yesterday while perusing The Cinderella Project. Eclairs, truffles, and macarons mingle with several towering confections.

I absolutely love houndstooth. Here, the menswear pattern is translated onto cake with very pretty results. A traditional croquembouche, whoopie pies, and lemon tarts under glass finish off the charming display.

Have a great Friday, everyone! This weekend, I'll be celebrating Minneapolis' Aquatennial at the beach. Hope you all have a great weekend, too. See you Monday!

Images (New York Magazine)

Dessert Table: Tea & Tarts

This simple, pretty dessert table is easy enough for even the baking-challenged party host. Grey Likes Weddings featured this casual design featuring iced tea, pink lemonade, and sugar-dusted lemon tartlettes.

These are perfect for any party, including Memorial Day barbecues. Want to attempt the lemon tartlettes for your bash? Grey Likes Nesting has the recipe.