Wedding Cakes

Our good friends were getting married and I offered to make their wedding cakes for them. I thought it would be a fun adventure, but as soon as I said I would, I started to panic. There was a lot on the line here. These were wedding cakes! After convincing myself that I could do it and a couple of practice rounds, and I started making the cakes - a guitar hero cake for the groom and a white wedding cake for the bride.

The bride's cake was a three layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting in the middle and covered with vanilla buttercream. Everything made from scratch.
Two out of the three layers ready to go.
After all three levels were together, I applied what is called a crumb layer. This is a thin layer of frosting that basically glues all the crumbs to the cake. This is done so when you do the outside layer of frosting, crumbs won't show. And it was important as it was a chocolate cake with white frosting, and the crumbs would really stand out.
I then frosted the rest of the cake with vanilla butter cream and decorated using a star tip.
For the center, I made some small flowers out of fondant. I have to say, I was quite impressed. I didn't think I could do that!
The cakes were a huge hit at the party and everyone loved them. You can see the grooms cake below which was a lot easier as I happen to have a guitar shaped cake pan and the cake was only one level.
Anyone need any cakes made? I think this could be a new path for me!