What cuter way to celebrate your baby’s birthday than smashing a cake!
This milestone portrait session is the most fun you will will have! I also happen to call it the catch and release session. (You will see the day of) This style of session is one of the most popular and for good reason: you get to see your gorgeous baby destroy a birthday cake that has been designed for them. Your Cake Smash photography session is customized to your baby’s favorite things/colors/themes. We have lots of fun during these sessions. A few images of your little one will be taken before the cake comes out so they are familiar with the camera and me. Then the cake comes in and we get smashing! I recommend doing a cake smash session between 11 months and 13 months of age.
The best time to book this session if you want them for your child’s actual birthday is when your baby is 11 months old, so you will have these fun birthday portraits returned in time for his or her birthday.
The day of the session you will arrive, and we will start with portraits of your baby with some props and different outfits in my studio, I have different backdrops, bowls, baskets, and chairs to choose from. Next after these beautiful portraits, we will bring out the cake! This will get messy, so please know the clothes you choose for this part of the session will get frosting on them. If you are using our couture outfits for the sessions you must change for the cask smash part. All babies handle the cake smash differently. Some babies dive in face first, some babies only play at the frosting, I had one that would only eat the cake with a spoon like a proper lady.
Don’t worry if you prefer not to do a cake smash, or it is not possible due to an allergy. We can still do a fun one year portrait session. I also recommend cake designers that specialize in allergies. Or we can do alternative sessions like a watermelon or spaghetti session.