Mike can do--- as his business name implies-- amazing things with cake. You may have seen some of his work on The Food Network. Anything you can imagine, he can create. My one bridezilla aspect to wedding planning was that our cake look EXACTLY like the inspiration picture we found. (No point getting into it, but I did have my reasons, promise!) Anyway, Mike put my fears of having a "cake wreck" to rest-- he delivered exactly as we were promised. The cake was gorgeous and looked exactly like the inspiration cake. And while their cake isn't as tasty as Madison Park Bakery's, it was still incredible. We had chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling and lemon with marionberry filling. The lemon & marionberry was good, but the chocolate was great! One last thing-- we found that Mike's was willing to work with us to make our dream cake work within our budget, and that's more than I can say with many vendors. After their estimate came back as too high for us, they worked with us to adjust our order (less presentation cake, more sheet cake in the back) until it worked for us. If you're considering them, be sure to set aside a weekend morning to attend their cake buffets-- they've got some great cake and it's fun to stuff yourself silly with trying all the flavors (chocolate with bailey's filling anyone?).
Jaqui was great, and her husband Travis turned out to be an excellent second shooter. Our wedding was captured beautifully through their skill. The one drawback I would add is that some of our "formals" -- the posed family pictures in front of the altar-- were not that great. She seems inexperienced with staging 20-40 people in an altar area, and I would ask her to bring a ladder, and allot more than an hour for these photos if you are doing these pictures indoors so there is no rush to get everyone staged so that no heads are blocked, etc. In looking at other weddings she has shot since then, I'm still amazed by her talent. And she does not seem to have trouble staging large groups of people outside. While outdoor weddings are definitely her forte, our indoor wedding in a dark, old church still resulted in beautiful pictures through Jaqui's skill.