Cake smash Portraits In Sussex

Crawley cake smash portraits

Sussex CAKE SMASH PORTRAITS IN CRAWLEY

The perfect first birthday baby portraits

CAKE SMASH PORTRAITS FOR BABY’S 1ST BIRTHDAY

A Cake Smash photo shoot is a super-popular, fun-filled baby portrait session you’ll love to keep as a reminder of your baby’s first birthday.

Watch your baby tuck into his or her first birthday cake, with often hilarious results!

We’ll shoot fast and capture the moments for posterity while you enjoy the fun in our portrait studio in Crawley, West Sussex.

Our Cake Smash sessions start from just £350

  • Includes 2x backdrops of your choice
  • Also includes a set of digital image files!

You’re going to LOVE this!

Our Cake Smash Birthday Portraits mark the important milestone of your baby’s first birthday. A super-yummy birthday cake also helps keep a wriggling, crawling, fast-moving baby in one place! This helps us capture a gorgeous collection of fun-filled memories for you.

Instant online booking

If you’d like a wonderful once-in-a-lifetime memory of your baby’s first birthday, you can select a date and book right now using our online date checker and booking system. Just click below to book with us.

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Cake Smash Packages at a glance…

£350

Mini

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A super-fun session with a fixed price, two backdrops, and a set of digital images included.

This session includes your favourite 10 images, to be selected from a gallery of around 30 or more portraits, with the option to purchase extras if required.

  • Portrait session, up to 30 mins
  • 1 child
  • 2x backdrops
  • Free use of props & accessories
  • Full editing & retouching
  • No need to return for a viewing
  • Online gallery with digital download
  • Minimum of 30 image gallery to choose from
  • 10x  high-res digital files included (printable)
  • 10x web/social media copies included
  • Additional images available at £35 each
  • Upgrade to ALL digitals + HR slideshow for just £150

Mini

£350

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£450

Standard

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This longer session can include up to 3 different backdrops, thereby creating the greatest variety and options.

This session typically produces a collection of between 40 – 50 images, with 25x digital images included in your session fee, and the option to purchase extras if required.

  • Portrait session, up to 1hr
  • Can include parents
  • 3x backdrops
  • Free use of props & accessories
  • Full editing & retouching
  • No need to return for a viewing
  • Online gallery with digital download
  • Minimum of 40 image gallery to choose from
  • 25x  high-res digital files included (printable)
  • 25x web/social media copies included
  • Additional images available at £35 each
  • Upgrade to ALL digitals + HR slideshow for just £75

Standard

£450

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Flexible payment options at Checkout

Looking to spread the cost for your portrait shoot?

We offer both Klarna and Clearpay as options in our online checkout system when purchasing any of our portrait sessions… so you can easily spread the cost of your payments when booking your portraits with us.

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LAURA F.

…a fantastic experience and worth every penny!

ENJOY…

AN EXAMPLE CAKE SMASH SLIDESHOW

4K Slideshow included free with complete image sets

Our ultra-high-resolution animated slideshows are super-popular. These look fantastic on any modern TV or mobile device.

We include a slideshow free with any full collection of digital images purchased. These super-fun slideshows are the perfect way to share your portrait session with friends and family.

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CAKE SMASH MINI-SESSIONS

DIGITAL IMAGES INCLUDED £350

Dive straight into the fun with a shorter, 30-minute birthday portrait session. This session still features two backdrops, so we can get a variety of images for you.

This session also includes 10x digital image files at no extra cost.

  • 30 MINUTE CAKE SMASH SESSION
  • BABY ONLY
  • 2X BACKDROPS
  • 10X DIGITAL IMAGES INCLUDED
  • FREE USE OF STUDIO PROPS
  • ONLINE GALLERY
  • NO NEED TO RETURN FOR VIEWING
  • ADDITIONAL IMAGES & PRODUCTS OPTIONAL
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Standard CAKE SMASH PORTRAITS £450

A standard cake smash portrait session lasts up to an hour, and include up to three backdrops of your choice.

This means we can get a lovely set of baby portraits for you before we introduce the cake… then we add the cake, and the real messy fun begins!

This session also includes the option to include a few images with parents as well, if required.

  • The perfect first birthday portrait session
  • Up to 3 backdrops
  • Can include a few portraits with parents, if required
  • Free use of studio props
  • 25x digital images included, with options to add more if required
  • Option to add bath-splash
  • Online gallery
  • No need to return to studio for viewing

Smash & Splash Bath Time Option +£25

An optional extra, only available for a Standard Cake Smash Portrait session. For just an additional £25, you can now choose to include a short bubble bath clean-up session, to add to the fun, and include even more variety for your portraits!

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Choose from ANY of our wide range of backdrops for YOUR Sitter Portraits session

CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITE THEME & COLOURS

To help style your portrait session for the very best baby photography, we offer a wide range of beautiful backdrops to choose from. After booking, you’ll be able to select the backdrop(s) of your choice for your sitter session.

Selecting your background and colours in advance means you’ll also be able to choose the perfect outfit to match the backdrop we’ll be using for your baby portraits.

We include free use of our studio props in your session fee. We also have a selection of purpose-made baby portrait outfits. Our baby outfits are perfect for sitting baby portrait sessions and are available for use at no extra charge.

If you prefer a simpler look for your baby’s portrait session, we also have a range of seamless coloured background papers, and a variety of textured fabric backgrounds to further customise your sitter portraits.

Example backdrops for your baby portraits

WHAT HAPPENS

AFTER YOUR CAKE SMASH PORTRAITS

Pre-purchase DIGITAL IMAGES without having to return to the studio.

Also includes a free animated slideshow of your portrait session, set to music.

If you pre-purchase a complete set of digital images after a standard cake smash session, you won’t need to return to the studio to view the images: you’ll get all the portraits from your session – in both high and low res versions.

Lots of fun, lots of choice…

For a cake smash portrait session, this is usually 30-40 portraits. Buying the complete set of digital images means you’ll also receive a complimentary ultra high-resolution slideshow set to music too!

After purchase, you’ll be able to download your complete set from an online gallery we’ll create for you. Your gallery also includes options to purchase additional frames, prints, canvas, cards, and more if you wish.

IMAGES & PRODUCT PRICES
A toddler in a pink dress sits on the floor during a delightful cake smash photography session, covering their face with tiny hands. Stuffed bears are nearby, with flowers and soft decor enhancing the joyful scene.

OR…

Arrange a free viewing and ordering appointment

If you prefer, you can return to the studio for a free viewing and ordering session. This allows you to view your gallery and all our products in person. Then you can decide which images and products you’d like to buy from us.

This option is perfect for customers who aren’t sure what they want to buy from us (for example. adding frames, and canvas to any digital images they buy).

In either case, we promise you’ll get NO hard sell from us… we’ll just let your gorgeous new baby portraits do the talking since we KNOW you’re going to love them!

Please note: due to the nature of digital images, online galleries are only available for images that have been pre-purchased in digital format.

CAKE SMASH FAQS

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Our portrait studio is located in the village of Copthorne, West Sussex. We’re right on the border between Surrey and West Sussex. We are 10 minutes from Crawley and East Grinstead or 5 minutes from junction 10 of the M23 motorway.

For the best cake smash portraits, we recommend arranging your photoshoot for when your baby is close to his or her first birthday.

Cake smash portraits are the perfect way to mark the milestone of your baby’s first birthday.

We’re also happy to include a few ‘normal’ baby portraits before we begin the cake smash. Then we’ll begin real fun with the messy cake smash photos!

We keep all our baby portrait sessions relatively short because we know all babies have a short attention span.

A standard cake smash portrait session will take up to an hour. A cake smash mini-session takes up to 30 minutes.

Yes, we supply all the props, with the exception of the cake itself. This avoids any allergy issues.

We also have a range of backgrounds, and even a small collection of clothing to choose from, to help us create the best cake smash photos for you… in fact everything except the cake and baby!

If you already own specific props, you would like to include, that’s also no problem.

We recommend selecting a lovely outfit for your cake smash portraits, with colours to complement the backdrop you choose.

Although it may get a little messy, we guarantee you’ll be keeping your beautiful cake smash portraits for years and years (much longer than the outfit). So, you’ll want this to be something you’ll really love seeing even after your baby has fully grown up!

We recommend matching your baby’s cake smash outfit to the background set you love most. We’ll send you all the details you’ll need when we confirm your booking.

To avoid allergy issues, we ask you to provide your own cake for a cake smash session. Make it as messy as you like, and we’ll take care of any mess afterwards!

We shoot fast and take lots of images during a cake smash session so we’ll have a great gallery of images to choose from.

A typical cake smash session will produce a gallery of around 30 – 40 images for you to choose from.

Yes, both our Cake Smash portrait sessions include a number of digital images as standard – the exact number depending on which package you book with us.

For each session, you will also have the option to purchase additional images and products after the session if you want to.

Yes. If you’re looking to spread the cost for your portrait shoot, we offer both Klarna and Clearpay as options in our online checkout system when purchasing any of our portrait sessions.

This means you can easily spread the cost of your payments when booking your portraits with us.

When we went to view the photos, I (mum), cried because they captured our daughter wonderfully.

– SIAN D.

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