Baby Starr: Adelaide's First Birthday Cake Smash with Giant Floral ONE Letters

Our sweet girl is officially ONE, and it’s hard to believe that we’ve had her in our lives for a whole year now. Time truly did fly by at warp speed, and I feel like we just brought her home from the hospital and our son was cuddling her on the couch and saying in his tiny little voice, “Hi, Adelaide. Hi, honey. I love you!”

For Adelaide’s first birthday portraits, I wanted to do a classic floral cake smash with a twist. I purchased these 3-foot tall 3D metal letters and filled them with greenery, blush, and peach florals, with a few pops of anemones. I absolutely love how it turned out (and I can’t wait to use these letters in so many more cake smashes — check out another one here with BALLOONS inside the letters!).

This backdrop was truly a labor of love. The letters were handmade by an artisan in the Ukraine, and shipping took a few extra weeks to arrive. I needed a truly ridiculous amount of garlands to fill them with, and then I had so much fun adjusting the peach and white peonies, pink hydrangeas, white roses, and anemones to get them **just right** in the final setup.

It was all worth it, and our girl LOVED her cake smash!

Big brother Grayson wanted to help me in the studio. He has always loved being a part of sessions, and this one was no exception because it involved his baby sister and CAKE. He brings out the biggest smiles in her, and some of my very favorite portraits from this session are the ones where she is grinning and laughing at her big brother just over my shoulder.

I was sooooo happy when she leaned into her cake to take a big bite out of it! And I just adore those itty bitty fingers holding on to the frosting on the side of the cake.

Just look at how Grayson is making Adelaide smile in the one below! I love the bond that these two are developing.

Of course, baby girl absolutely loved her bathtub splash at the end. She didn’t want to get out of the tub when it was over! We had so much fun doing this session, and I can’t wait to frame a few portraits and add them to an album for our ONE YEAR OLD daughter!

Floral Cake Smash Inspiration - A few of Our Favorites with this popular theme!

The most requested cake smash theme that we get here at the studio is FLORAL CAKE SMASH. It is perfect for little girls, and it is so simple, timeless, and sweet. I absolutely love designing floral cake smash setups, and it’s always a fun challenge to make each one unique. Here we’re sharing a few of our favorite floral cake smash designs for inspiration for your little one’s upcoming first birthday portrait session!

This hanging floral wall had a nice bohemian vibe, and I loved how clean and elegant it looked with these tiny little rosebuds!

The fresh purple hydrangeas cut from the front yard on my way to this birthday girl’s portrait session were the perfect finishing touch to her tea party cake smash!

More fresh florals! You can never go wrong with fresh blooms!

This sweet girl’s mama made her flower crown, and I designed the balloon garland with greenery to match!

Our paper flower backdrop really sparkled with a little gold bling!

More pretty peonies for an English garden theme.

Some-bunny is one! This perfectly springtime theme wouldn’t have been complete without gorgeous flowers and greenery!

I love how versatile our garlands are for weaving different flowers into them!

Crepe paper flowers were a nice touch for a flower wall filled with fluffy peonies!

Floral hoops for a bit of a boho vibe!

This is the paper flower backdrop that started it all! It is our most re-pinned image on Pinterest, and the DIY tutorial is the most viewed blog post on our website!

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