Smash Cake Session Gone Wild! {One Year Birthday Photographer, Franklin, TN}

Oh, my goodness, this was the BEST smash cake session! If you’re not familiar with smash cake sessions, they’re when a baby turns one year old and they get a small cake that they are thoroughly encouraged to SMASH and eat all for the sole purpose of capturing adorable photos to celebrate baby’s 1st year!

This is Miss J and I took her older sister’s smash cake photos a few years ago. I was worried I wouldn’t get to do Miss J’s because her family moved to Atlanta last year, so I was thrilled with mom texted me and said they wanted to come up for photos!!

Her older sister’s shoot had a lot more color, but this year mom wanted to go with a more neutral palette, which I thought was just lovely. Now that we’re in our new house, I have a room up front for my studio and I finally have a space that has wood floors, so I can do smash cake sessions in my in-home studio now!

We always do at least 2 setups and we start out without the cake - obviously! I loved the way the background I had complimented her little purple paisley outfit. I edited these just a little more softly than I typically do. I tend to alter my editing styles just slightly to match the mood of the shoot and the people in it. I don’t think there’s a one-edit-fits-all!

The last cake smash session I had was a while ago, and she was NOT into her cake, which is more typical then you might think! But Miss J was ALL ABOUT IT. She even tipped over the entire cake stand at one point! It was hilarious and so perfect!

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one year old girl in paisley dress
one year old girl fingers
little baby toes
closeup of eyelashes on baby girl
happy one year old
one year old baby pouts in her photoshoot
one year old baby holds onto stool
one year old girl tries to take off her bow
close up of one year old feet
baby pushes stool on first birthday
first birthday photos of girl in paisley dress
first birthday photoshoot with neural colors
one year old girl gets happy about her birthday cake
first birthday girl ready to eat her cake
one year old girl about to touch her smash cake
smash cake in vanilla and white
happy first birthday girl in white eyelet dress
birthday girl turns one and plays with her toes
baby girl tries cake on her first birthday
one year old girl put vanilla cake in her mouth
three photos of girl on her first birthday trying cake
chunky cheek girl tastes cake on first birthday
little girl looks to her mom after tasting cake
overhead shot of girl smashing cake
one year old girl cake smash photo session
one year old girl hands smashing vanilla cake
girl on first birthday with hands covered in cake
girl smiles big after trying cake on her first birthday
first birthday smash cake girl white dress
one year old girl tips over cake stand during cake smash session
cake smash session gets funny when girl topples cake
first birthday girl in white dress white backgroun
little girl so happy with her smash cake on her first birthday
cake stand upside down on girl 1st birthday cake smash
first girl birthday cake smash creams and white colors
closeup of one year old girl's face during cake smash session
little one year old girl covered in vanilla cake for first birthday
one year old girl in white dress played with cake-filled toes
cake smash session for one year old girl with neutral colors
adorable one year old girl with blonde hair and white dress sits in cake
happy girl on her first birthday
overturned cake stand from cake smash session
back of eyelet dress on one year old girl at her cake smash session