I was so excited to see Anaya again for her First Birthday Portraits and she once again showed us what a joyful girl she is! I loved seeing her big grins and hearing her excited laughs. She loved her cake smash and I was so excited that Mom let me choose any backdrop I wanted for the sets, in any colour I wanted. I don’t normally get free reign like that so it was exciting to put on my thinking cap and come up with 3 unique sets to celebrate the incredible first year of Anaya’s life! Take a look at the fun we had together:
The first set I created was with a blue and purple floral backdrop that Anaya looked so adorable in front of. We used our new lavender purple flokati and wood purple bowl. We paired the set with our purple and white lace romper and purple and white flower rosette headband from the Jennifer Willard Photography (JWP) prop collection.
Look at this great smile and she has so many teeth!!
Our next set includes probably one of my favourite backdrops of all time. I love bright and bold colours and I couldn’t wait to use it for little Anaya’s first birthday session! We paired it with a light blue flokati rug that picked up some of the blue in the flowers of the yellow backdrop. This beautiful mustard yellow romper and handmade paper flower crown from the JWP prop collection rounded off this perfect coordinated look! Mom added some beautiful bangles that mean so much to them to add a little extra sparkle and we were ready to rock! I was so thrilled with how it all came together and most importantly Anaya had a great time on this set. She is one of just a handful of first birthday kids to come in that was able to stand on her own and she was the first to ever sit on her knees in just this way. Plus of course she was just so happy to be here that she made my job capturing this time in her life’s journey a breeze!
Our last set was a pleasure to create! I had just ordered this gorgeous pink, mint, gold and blue cloud backdrop and I knew it was perfect for this beautiful baby girl’s first birthday cake smash! We paired it with our gold O N E letters, tissue pom poms in matching colours and pink and gold ruffle romper with a gold hairclip instead of a headband, all from the JWP prop collection.
We added our pink metal bed and custom handspun pink, peach, cream and mint bump blanket for one more look before we were ready for our cake smash to begin.
This beautiful custom watercolour cake was made by Amy’s Cake Company out of Gananoque which is my go to Baker for cake smash cakes. I was so excited to come to her with this cake design because I had never had a watercolour cake chosen in the studio before and I wanted to show clients a different type of cake that they may have not considered before. It was just gorgeous and apparently delicious according to Anaya!
It was such a great First Birthday Cake Smash! Anaya was just too fun!
If you would love to document your baby’s first year with a first birthday cake smash we would love to hear from you!! We can create sets based on your chosen colour palette or if you want to let us create sets based on ideas we’ve been brainstorming then that’s great too! Either way we would love to hear from you! You can learn more about First Birthday Milestone Portrait Session Details, take a look at our First Year Portfolio for examples of sets we have created before and Become a Client by clicking on these clickable links.
