WWW.CAKEMASTERSMAGAZINE.COM 77Tell us about your collaboration
After the success of our Catrina in
Bloom, we definitely wanted to keep on
mixing modelling and sugar flowers.
What could be better when you’re in
the wedding industry than to feature a
bride and a groom themselves?
Tell us about a few of the pieces that
have been made
We started working on the flowers right
after Birmingham CI! Over 120 roses,
12,000 hydrangea petals, 1000 tulip
petals, 500 orchid petals and 2000 ivy
leaves! The characters are life-sized, the
bride being around 1.7m and the groom
almost 1.9m. The characters’ structures
and the wooden arch are entirely
handmade for the project.
How many members were in your
collaboration?
4 people were in the team. Emma Jayne
was in charge of modelling the bride
and Marc Suárez of modelling the
groom. Céline Ceyzeriat and I worked
on the sugar flowers for the dress,
arch, bride’s hair and buttonhole of
the groom. A big thank you once again
to our shadow hero, my mum, Fazilah
Augier, who made a lot of petals and
leaves. I had the immense honour
of being supported by my sponsor,
Squires Kitchen, who provided us
with the flower paste and powder
and gel colours. Marc and Emma were
sponsored by Renshaw and Rainbow
Dust. The team was sponsored by
Cerart who provided us with some
amazing tools and Gwen Powell
sponsored us with dragéekíss® tools
to embellish the bride’s dress and
jewellery.
How did you decide on this group of
people?
Marc and Céline were already part of
the team so it was obvious to continue
the adventure with us. Stéphane had to
leave the project for personal reasons.
As for many cake designers probably,
working with Emma Jayne was a dream
for all of us. When I spoke to her about
the project, she was very enthusiastic
and immediately said yes! We were
all over the moon, excited, happy and
honoured to work with such a great
artist!Did anything go wrong during the
process?
Just like for Catrina, the main difficulty
was geographical distance and
transport. As Marc was teaching in
Australia during CI, I first had to drive
to Spain to pick up the groom. Then Idrove to Lyon to pick up Céline and we
drove to Wales to go to Emma’s and
finish the project. A huge thank you to
Emma’s husband, Owain, who built the
wooden arch and drove a van with the
whole project from Wales to London.
Onsite assembling was much easier as
we already had the experience from
Catrina. Marc being away was very
scary for us as we had to transport
his work, with the risk of damage and
having to repair it without his help and
knowledge. Of course, Emma was there
in case there would be anything but she
already had a lot of work on her side.
But lesson learnt! It’s always better to
have all members onsite!WEDDING
in bloom