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10 Luxury Wedding Cakes By Common Bond Cafe & Bakery

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Cake: Common Bond Cafe & Bakery | Venue: Hotel Galvez & Spa | Linens: EB Inc. Event Rentals & Design | Photo: Ama By Aisha

You’re in for a sweet treat today loves because we are so excited to welcome Common Bond Cafe & Bakery to the blog to showcase this premium Houston bakery and their luxury wedding cakes and unique groom’s cakes! Although they’re named Common Bond, we can assure you there is certainly nothing common about them.

Everywhere in the world, a “common bond” that everyone shares is the love of good food. From this idea, Common Bond Cafe & Bakery was opened in May 2014 to create a comfortable space for the Houston community to gather to dine and bond over good food, extraordinary pastries and mouthwatering cakes. Only at Common Bond will you find Food Network’s award-winning Sarah Ono Jones crafting your perfectly sweet memory. Sarah is a nationally acclaimed custom cake designer who’s been with Common Bond Cakes since 2018 and has made cakes for Cirque de Soleil, HGTV and more! Sarah and her Common Bond Cakes team will truly design your wedding cake to be as unforgettable as your special day.

From geode wedding cakes to yeti groom’s cakes and to everything deliciously in between, scroll down to see the visually stunning works of art Common Bond Cakes has to offer with these 10 luxury wedding cakes!

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Joyful Hindu-Muslim Wedding By Raofactor At ZaZa

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Photo: MnM Photography
Anita and Shivan’s exuberant Hindu-Muslim wedding caught our attention the moment we saw it.

The couple, who were introduced to one another by mutual friends in 2013, might not have become a couple at all, had it not been for Anita’s initiative: “The first time we met, we talked, but not much happened. The second time all of the friends got together for dinner and I asked him out on a date,” Anita says. “He politely accepted…and it was all history from there!” A big part of that history was Shivan’s spring 2017 proposal at Hermann Park. As Anita explains, “It is one of my favorite places in the city. Shivan invited my family and friends, because he remembered that I once told him I would want all my loved ones to be there for the moment. He set up the old oak trees with lights, flowers, and pictures of us from dates we had been on, and proposed under a tree. We went from there to brunch, to celebrate with everyone. It was the most perfect proposal.” And while she notes that, “Our biggest hurdle was that my family is all Muslim and Shivan’s family is all Hindu,” she says that, ultimately, “both families accepted each other and we did ceremonies for both religions. It was beautiful to see two different religions coming together and accepting each other as family.” Join us on a colorful, lively, joy-filled journey through this lovely couple’s multi-day celebration, which included fabulous floral design from Raofactor, at a 350-guest bash held at glamorous Hotel ZaZa Museum District. Wishing Anita and Shivan a lifetime of love!  Click here to read the rest of this post »

Modern-Rustic Wedding at Chateau Polonez

Brittni and Cameron’s love story is a true high-school dream. She was a cheerleader, and he was a baseball player. A mutual friend introduced them after a game, and it took only two weeks for them to go on a group movie date. Seven years later, they had gone from high-school sweethearts to lifelong soulmates.

Cameron knew that the perfect way to catch Brittni off guard was with a surprise proposal the weekend of his 23rd birthday. As the bride tells it, “I came back from College Station to attend his birthday dinner in Cypress, and was a little perturbed because he had been very evasive and hadn’t been communicating much the week before. Looking back on it, I should have known what was going to happen, after my mom and cousin took me to get my nails done and helped me pick out an outfit. My mom was so worried that my shirt was wrinkled, which is typical—but she was extra concerned that day.” In true Southern-gentleman fashion, Cameron picked her up in his F250 truck and told Brittni that he wanted to make a pit stop at his uncle’s barn before dinner. Brittni recounts: “We hopped out of his truck and began walking towards the lake, and spotted a little boy laughing while fishing. I was completely oblivious to the situation, and only noticed the roses and mason-jar candles as I ran into Cameron’s back,” she says. “I looked up and saw his face… it immediately brought me to tears. The look in his eyes was nothing I’ve seen before.” Cameron dropped down on one knee, and then came the ugly cries and happy tears.

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She wore a gorgeous lace bridal gown, and the entire bridal party wore the cutest sneakers—including Brittni!

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Brittni and Cameron had a vision of a modern-rustic wedding that came to life at Chateau Polonez with lush greenery, lots of candlelight and a naked cake.

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“Our favorite moment was standing on stage after we said, ‘I do.’ We saw so many supportive faces and felt all of the love in that moment,” Brittni says. Congrats & best wishes to the newlyweds!

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Photos: Leighanne Herr Photography | Venue: Chateau Polonez | Lighting, Music & Photo Booth: DJU Entertainment