Lorelie Carvey

Wedding cakes for you is about YOU. I am building this web site specifically as a free guide to wedding cakes for brides to be and cake decorators.

My name is Lorelie and this is my website. I personally will be responding to all of your questions and am very excited to be able to help you in your cake quest!

Hi I'm Lorelie Carvey

I live in Connecticut with my husband Scott.

My passion for baking and decorating started in early childhood when I received my first oven, the "easy bake oven" (remember those?) As a teen I always made cakes for my friends and family and would decorate them with fresh picked flowers.

I made my first wedding cake in 1984 when one of my east coast high school friends, who had relocated to the west coast, asked me to fly out and make her wedding cake.

The thought of a wedding cake for 150 people was pretty scary.

I signed up for a Wilton basic cake decorating class at my local Wilton supply shop and learned how to make roses and borders.

Then I practiced like crazy even going so far as to make a test cake complete with pillars and cupids.

My nerves got to me the morning of the wedding as I actually sat on the tray of butter cream flowers prepped the night before. Oops!

My first wedding cake 1984

This first wedding cake started me on a new career path and I met the love of my life, my husband Scott. We married one year later and I moved to California to start a new life with him.

Mr. and Mrs. Carvey-May 25 1985

Shortly after moving to California, my career path took a few twists and turns.

Starting with my first job at a French bakery in San Mateo.

My first bakery position also known as the "School Of Hard Knocks"

I learned valuable new skills and techniques as an assistant cake decorator. That lead me to opening a home based business, "I Do Cakes" A clever name that my sister in law thought of.

I baked one cake at a time and delivered the cakes with my old Connecticut station wagon.

The old station wagon delivery method

Three years after moving to California and one son later we moved back to Connecticut and "Lorelie's Luscious Cakes." was born.

My home bakery at the time.

The twists and turns really started after I received my certification to become a personal trainer and started bodybuilding.

Yes! I did say personal training and bodybuilding!

From then on I have gone back and forth from personal trainer to pastry chef, and the cycle continues to this day. Although I no longer compete in bodybuilding competitions.

My husband thinks I am a brilliant business woman, because I sell fattening cakes to people and then ask them to hire me as personal fitness trainer.

Truth is I can't make up my mind, so I manage to do both.

Kitchen at the banquet hall

I have worked in many kitchens, baking and decorating all kinds of pastries and cakes over the years. Five of those years really stand out as I spent many hours in the kitchen pictured above, baking all of the wedding cakes and pastries for three facilities.

During that time I won an award from the Connecticut Chef's Association.

First Place and Directors Award 2004

Building an online business through Wedding Cakes For You and sharing my knowledge with the world is my new passion.

I am growing this online business from my home with an amazing program called Site Build It or SBI for short. If you want to know how you can build a business working from home writing about your passion or knowledge click on the passion button...

You can read more about this wedding cake website and how you can build a site like this about your favorite topic!

"Beauty is in the mouth of the beholder"

~Margaret Braun~ Cakewalk - Adventures in Sugar

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