Dana Cakes!!

Wedding cakes are definately an important highlight of a wedding reception. There are many places who can provide you with your cake but do you really want to entrust just anyone to provide yours?

Let me tell you about a wonderful resource!! Dana Filer, of Dana Cakes (or sometimes referred to as "the Arlington cake lady" by her clients) has been creating masterpiece wedding cakes and grooms cakes for many years. She is personable and is fantastic at what she does. Pictured above is the four tier wedding cake that she made for my husband and I's wedding reception and let me tell you, it was the talk of our event!

As an officiant and planner, I have had the opportunity to taste many different wedding cakes -- from cakes made by bakeries, grocery stores, bride and groom's family members and friends and many are either run-of-the-mill in taste or look gorgeous but lack the flavor and the punch that I anticipated on tasting. Dana's cakes are moist, of high quality and just plain pretty to look at! (I actually have a photo of me wincing as my husband and I were preparing to cut into our masterpiece.) To be honest, after I had booked our wedding venue, Countryside Meadows in Arlington, I immediately contacted Dana to ask her to create our cake. I had my priorities set.

Even though I had tasted her cakes she offered to have us come to her home for our tasting. Waiting for us were flavors including a luscious lemon with lemon filling, a marble, traditional white and my personal favorite, chocolate. She also had binders and binders of photos that had different cakes she had created for us to look through. As we feasted on cake samples and sipped coffee with her, we discussed design, how many guests we would be feeding and even colors. Dana assisted us with coordinating colors and even upheld my husband's request to have no green on our cake (the Irishman was superstitious....). Dana came through with flying colors!

The day of our event, she arrived to set up her masterpiece. It wasn't like some cake companies who leave them to be assembled. Dana had requested that we have our cake topper left for her to add for us. With cake table ready, Dana carefully assembled our cake, added extra sugar flowers to match our wedding colors and voila! The proof is above. Dana also provides a cake topper box and instructions on how to preserve your cake until your anniversary.

You can see her other creations by visiting her link on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Danacakes/194221030626288. To make an appointment with her, you may contact her at 360 435 9583 or by email at dfiler64@gmail.com.