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Pink Balloon Cake Smash – Orange County, CA

Is there anything cuter than a baby covered in frosting with a big, joyful smile? A Pink Theme Cake Smash session with Gilmore Studios is the perfect way to celebrate your little one’s first birthday in a fun, playful, messy and completely adorable way!

Why Have a Cake Smash Session?

Your baby’s first year goes by in a blink! A Pink themed Cake Smash Session is a fantastic way to capture their personality at this precious milestone. Here’s why parents love booking these sessions:

Unique First Birthday Memories – Instead of just having traditional portraits, this session adds a playful, interactive element to your baby’s first birthday photos. It’s a session full of laughter, curiosity, and messy fun!

Adorable Keepsake Photos – From the first hesitant poke at the frosting to the full-on cake dive, every moment is pure gold. These photos make perfect birthday invitations, prints, and memories to look back on.

A Fun Experience for Everyone – Your baby gets to explore textures, tastes, and colors while giggling through the whole session. And let’s be honest—watching a tiny human destroy a cake is just as fun for parents!

When your Baby Sit’s up for the First Time

For this session, we kept things soft and sweet with a pink and white theme, matching her adorable outfit to the beautifully decorated cake. The pastel balloons and “Happy Birthday” banner created the perfect celebratory backdrop. With frosting-covered fingers and the happiest little grin, she fully embraced the fun of smashing her birthday cake.

Ready to Book Your Cake Smash Session?

If your baby’s first birthday is coming up, let’s celebrate in a way that’s fun, memorable, and oh-so-cute! Gilmore Studios specializes in beautifully styled Cake Smash sessions that capture this milestone in the sweetest way possible. Now booking sessions in Newport Beach, CA & Gilbert, AZ!

Book your baby’s cake smash session today! Visit www.gilmorestudios.com to schedule your session.

Meet the Gilmores:

Gilmore Studios serves Orange County, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. We specialize in wedding photography, family portraits, newborn and branding photography. Our studio has been in business since 2002.

Fun Facts:

PLace we call home:

Newport Beach & Queen Creek

Number of kids:

3 boys

Years in business:

Since 2002

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Pick something you love and make that your career. Honestly, that’s kind of what happened.

I never imagined that setting up backdrops, planning themes, making silly noises to get a baby to smile, and celebrating first birthdays would become my job.

But here we are. 🥹

And after all these years, I still get excited watching a theme come together and seeing a little one’s personality shine once they step into the studio.

Because cake smash sessions aren’t really about the cake.

They’re about celebrating a milestone that only happens once.

And getting to be a small part of that never gets old. 🎂

What’s something you could talk about or do all day and never get tired of?
Pelican Hill Resort + a gorgeous sunset + incredible food = an evening I didn’t want to end. 🧡 Had the best time covering this event for ABOG (Dallas, TX). The boho vibes were unmatched and decor was beyond. This is what happens when a great group of people gathers in a beautiful place.
This is just me being sarcastic - but some might be a little true. 😂

Top 5 Horror Movies for a Photographer

• can you send the RAW files
• wind. just. wind
• wearing neon orange at sunset
• the tide is too high
• making videos while being a photographer
The question that starts almost every cake smash conversation:

What themes can we do?
Honestly — almost anything.

But here is what I actually recommend.

Choose something they are into right now. Whatever phase they are in at this exact age. The dinosaurs. The rubber ducks. The princesses. The trucks. The thing they carry everywhere and sleep with and talk about constantly.

Because here is what nobody tells you about cake smash sessions: in ten years that photo is going to show you exactly who your child was at this age. Not just what they looked like. Who they were.
That is worth capturing.

We have a full theme library on our website — but if you do not see something that fits your child we will build it custom. No two sessions have to look the same because no two kids are the same.
For this session we planned everything together from the start. Rubber ducky theme. Portraits first. Then family photos. Then cake.
And before we ever talked about the set — we talked about what she wanted to do with the photos.
She chose an album.

Because digitals are beautiful. But an album is something her daughter will open when she is grown and understand immediately.
What theme are you thinking for your little one? Drop it in the comments — I want to see what phase you are in right now.
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DM me BIRTHDAY and let’s start planning yours.
Photography started as something I loved.

I never picked up a camera thinking it would become a business, support my family, introduce me to thousands of incredible people, or still be part of my life 20+ years later.

But somewhere along the way, a hobby became a career.

Then a business.

Then a huge part of my life. 🤍

I’ve photographed weddings, newborns, seniors, families, birthdays, and milestones for people I’ve known for decades.

And honestly?

The greatest part isn’t the photos.

It’s the people.

The families who come back year after year.
The babies who become seniors.
The clients who become friends.

That’s what keeps me showing up every day.

Do you have a hobby you secretly wish could become your full-time job? 

Comment LEARN if you’d like to see how I turned photography into a 20+ year business.

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