The Wedding Cake's Origins

I posted the picture of the wedding cake we want to recreate/modify in an earlier post, but I found the cake's origins! Before I just stumbled (literally, stumbled via StumbleUpon) a picture of the cake, but this is the couple who had the good taste to have the cake created for their wedding:

David Malki & Nikki Rice

Check out that wedding announcement! I don't know if they sent that out or not, but it's damn cool. David is a writer, filmmaker and comic strip artist and Nikki is a photographer and special-effects artist.

I've actually read David's work before and never knew:

Wondermark

Here is a link to a few photos of their wedding. A wedding full of multi-colored Converse sneakers. Awesome:

Here

I also highly suggest checking out the wedding movie trailer in that first link.

Now that I've established how awesome they are I can link the creator's website. Mike's Amazing Cakes in Redmond, WA:

Mike's Amazing Cakes

Check out that suit of armor cake displayed on the homepage. Holy cow.

Unfortunately I cannot link any particular pictures from his gallery or pull them off the site to post here, but I definitely suggest looking through his gallery. Go and see these:

The "Hulk Smash" + Spiderman + Superman groom wedding cake
Sand castle wedding cake complete with bucket of sand
The lopsided wedding cake
The electrical tape, copper wire, super glue groom's cake
The "Hey, diddle diddle" personal occasion cake

Believe-it-or-not, his pricing isn't bad. The base price is $2.30 per serving, includes plate, first set of legs, smooth-butter cream finish and appropriate borders. That's for 1-100 servings, which ours would be. I'd imagine we'd get 30-ish servings. Unless we wait for cake at the Michigan reception, in which case it would drop to $2.10 per servings for 101-300 servings.

They can ship there cakes anywhere in the U.S. and it's done counter-to-counter by major airline. You pick the cake up at the airport. I imagine this would become costly, but could be 100% worth it.

We'll look around, but I think I'll contact Mike's Amazing Cakes for a quote and see just what the cost might be for a smaller version of David and Nikki's cake would cost with a Mexican/Indiana Jones-like/action-adventure/jungle theme would be.

P.S.: In case you were curious how the top layer of the cake sat so well at an angle supported only by 2.5 legs - It's Styrofoam.

P.P.S.: Carla is trying to veto my Indiana Jones ideas for a groom with a Fedora hat. But don't worry, I'm fighting it to the end and there's always the groom's cake.