My son turned one at the beginning of the year… so time for a cake smash! Thanks to Rachael for the lovely sugar free cake… more of her bakes can be seen on her website.
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Cake Smash
I’ve wanted to do a cake smash shoot for some time. Fortunately, I have a friend who’s baby turned one last week. And she was totally up for letting her son get messy!
Cake Smash shoots are an new-ish trend in this country, to mark a child’s first birthday. The idea is the baby is presented with a birthday cake, which, as they’ve never seen one before, they explore it in the way only babies know how; digging into it with his hands, smearing it all over his face, and generally making a mess. The process is photographed in all its messy glory, and the images often serve as invites or thank you cards for the party.
Rather than doing this at a first birthday party, where guests may actually want to eat the cake, the Cake Smash shoots happen either a little before or after the birthday.
It was such a fun shoot; fast, but fun. After a nap, during which we set the scene, the boy didn’t hesitate to investigate the cake. Cream and cake went everywhere, so we popped him in an enamel tub I had brought along, and blew some bubbles. That went down VERY well…
If you’d like to book a cake smash shoot, please email me or call me on 07779 036 222.
Watch the birdie... 