The cakle was absolutely delicious and looked exactly as I wanted. The only issue we had was the bakery not sending a box for the leftovers, and my mom had specifically called them and asked them to include that in the delivery. Other than that, it was very reasonably priced and tasted awesome.

Again, we were not disappointed in our cake vendor either! We not only ordered our wedding cake from them, we also ordered my parents 50th wedding anniversary cake too! We enjoyed going to the tasting and had a great time choosing our cake flavors and designing it with our contact there as well. Both cakes turned our beautifully!

Our wedding cake was the best tasting cake I've ever had. Nadia helped us to customize one of their normal wedding cakes with a little extra fruitiness that made it just perfect. She helped us design the cake by giving ideas without being pushy and she really listened to what we wanted. Amphora is a little pricey, but Nadia gave us suggestions on keeping the cost down without taking away the beauty of the cake. Our guest list ended up a little smaller than anticipated, so our family was lucky enough to have extra cake to eat after the wedding was over! Our cake was beautiful and delicious and we couldn't have been happier!

I chose ameretto for the lower tier and then white chocolate rasberry for the rest. My cake came with the ameretto tier but there wasn't any white chocolate rasberry to be found! Instead they gave me buttercream! It was good cake but THE WRONG CAKE! What is wrong with these people?!
Also, the cake came lacking decoration. I chose a cake that would stand out on it's own without any flower petals but the cake that came was lacking. It had the sugar flowers I ordered but the background decoration was missing. I was obviously dissapointed.

Our wedding cake turned out exactly the way we wanted it. We provided them a picture of what we liked and made a few changes to the colors and what not, and everything turned out perfect.

We knew some people that weren't to fond of cakes with fondant, but even they loved it as it wasn't that really thick fondant, but rather a nice thin layer of it that didn't take away from the taste of the actual cake. The cake tasted just as great as it looked! It was a little pricey, but you definitely get what you pay for!

Nadia took care of any questions we had and was always easy to get a hold of, especially when we needed to add an additional sheet cake to the original order when our guest count went up.

The cake was amazing - exactly what we hoped for. The tasting was fun and staff was very helpful to explain the different choices available. Cake was delicious. It was fun to have different flavors for the different tiers. I would highly recommend Amphora!

Would totally recommend them again!

The cakes (wedding cake, sheet cake and grooms cake) were absolutely delicious. I couldn't asked for more. Initially I ordered only my wedding cake because I hadn't even thought of a grooms cake. I attended the tasting and the cake was ordered very quickly/efficiently and with three different flavors. My son attended with me and the bakery didn't present it as an inconvenience what-so-ever. Nadia was very knowledgable regarding her product. She actually recommended for my budget that we order a smaller cake and a sheet cake, which I did. The smaller cake size was still perfect. I called back later when I decided on the grooms cake. That process wasn't so smooth (with long delays) but it all worked out in the end and the kings crown I ordered for my hubby was beautiful! Nadia remained professional throughout the whole long groomscake process and was a great spokesperson for a great bakery! Also, the other bakery products looked so tempting that I couldn't help but to order some on the way out. They were presented beautifully and delicious!

Two or three days before my wedding, I stopped by Amphora and ordered two rounds and a full sheet cake in a white, whipped "Betty Crocker" finish. The sheet cake was lemon, one round was chocolate raspberry, and one was strawberry buttercream. They delivered the cakes the day of my wedding, I stacked the two rounds with tier stuff I bought at a craft store and topped it with my own decor, and the caterer served the sheet cake to guests. Everyone raved about how delicious it was and it cost me 1/3 of what a traditional wedding cake would cost. I love Amphora!

We hired Amphora bakery to do our wedding cake and groom's cake. Based off of previous reviews I was worried. Especially when the girl who took our wedding cake order left the store. We were called on 3 or 4 different occassions to confirm our cake order. Which I guess they were being thorough but it just made me more nervous that they lost the order somehow. Both cakes arrived to the reception right on time and looked amazing though. The groom's cake was a custom design that looked exactly as we wanted it to. The wedding cake was beautiful and was just what I asked for. All of the cake tasted amazing too and we got tons of compliments. So the only bad thing about the store is they are a little unorganized but they got better towards the end so i'm guessing they hired new staff that are on top of things.

We worked with Nadia Patnode at Amphora Bakery for our wedding cake and everything was wonderful. From our initial consultation meeting where she walked us through the process as well as her patience during our decision making process, things went very smoothly. Even when I decided to change the design of the cake a week before, Amphora Bakery handled it with grace.

Additionally, what I appreciated most was the consultative approach from Nadia. She listened to my requests and would provide suggestions to improve upon the final product. I loved the fact that we even got a call about the color of the fondant for the base of the cake a couple of days before because the staff felt a different color would make the cake look prettier.

Finally, the cake tasted wonderful! Even better than in our tastings. Many people have told me that I wouldn't remember much from our wedding even suggesting that I wouldn't remember the cake, but thanks to the service we received from Amphora Bakery, we will remember the cake.

Amphora bakery has done a magnifcent job on our wedding cake. The design was beyond what we wanted, and was absolutely goregous. The cake also tasted wonderfully. We would recommend Amphora to any newly engaged couple.

The cake was delicious although they are lacking in their professionalism. Our contact did not provide many ideas/suggestions etc. We had a good first meeting and then after that, was not impressed. I used them because their cakes are great, price was right etc. Our cake arrived with the bottom layer having a horiztonal crack in the middile. Our wedding planners covered it up with flowers, although was disappointing.

I was very disappointed in the service with Amphora's. My wedding cake was delivered & it was a very good cake. (Red velvet) My husband's groom's cake never showed. We tried calling the shoppe but it was a sunday so they closed early I guess. My mom left a voice mail & it was 10am the next day & they didn't return her call so tried calling back... She talked to a manager to tell her the cake never showed & the manager laughed about it & said these things happen. No apology or anything. My mom asked for a refund and the cake.THe mgr. laughed & said she couldn't refund her & give the merchandise... My mom started yelling & the mgr offered her a gift card for the amount she paid & the cake. The cake was delivered later that day & my mom said it wasn't even the design she talked about with baker. I loved my wedding cake but was very disappointed in the service with what happened to groom's cake but thought I should share for others before they choose their baker...

I got married 4 weeks ago and I just wanted to warn everyone NOT to get their wedding cake from Amphora Bakery in Herndon, VA because they delivered a FROZEN 5 tier cake to my wedding reception. They delivered the cake at 5:30pm and when I cut the cake at 10pm - the whole center of the cake was still frozen. I will admit the cake was beautiful and the one bite I did eat was good, but they do not care about their customer's happiness or delivering a quality product.

My hotel told me that the cake was so hard they almost BROKE their knife trying to cut it and the pieces kept crumbling when they were cut. They also said there is no way that I got all the servings I paid for. The hotel also documented the cake problem in the hotel event log that night. That just goes to prove that something was wrong with this cake. Several people at my wedding were commenting about watching the guy trying to cut into the frozen cake. So embarrassing!!

When I contacted Amphora a few days after my wedding (while on my honeymoon) to let them know I wasn't happy. They didn't respond. When I called them to follow up - they just ran around in circles. All they would say is that they don't freeze their cakes and they don't know what happened. My wedding planner, the hotel and event staff have spoken to Amphora and it's still not good enough for them to offer me any kind of refund. They did not offer an apology either. They do not return any phone calls - I had to continue to call them and follow up.

To make this entire situation worse the owner, Maria Cholakis, was actually YELLING at me on the phone! She told me that they do not freeze their cakes and they don't even have a freezer big enough. I don't think they froze the cake after it was assembled, I think they froze the layers of cake and assembled it frozen and then decorated it. They tried to blame it on my hotel asking if they stored the cake after it was delivered - and it was not.

Maria told me that I should have saved her a piece of cake and she would know what's wrong with it. How was I supposed to save the cake - I was on my honeymoon for almost 2 weeks? She said I should have had the hotel save the cake. What difference would that have made - it would be thawed by then or stale by the time I got back from my honeymoon. That is completely unreasonable. Not to mention that as the BRIDE, I should not be concerned with saving a slice of cake for the bakery. She told me that as far as she's concerned once they deliver the cake her job is done. I told her no it's not - you need to stand behind your product and deliver quality.

She continued to yell at me that she would not issue any kind of refund until she personally interviewed every person at my hotel to find out what happened. I told her that her staff had already done that, I have an email from the hotel stating that they logged that the cake was extremely difficult to cut and they also spoke to my wedding planner who had the event staff tell her the cake was frozen the night of my wedding.

Amphora Bakery has all the information any reasonable person would need to offer an apology and some kind of reasonable refund to make a customer happy. The way they have handled the entire situation is wrong. My word as an unhappy customer should be enough for them to apologize and offer a reasonable refund. They will not do either and I've been dealing with this for 3 weeks now. Unacceptable.

Save yourself the trouble and DO NOT DEAL with Amphora Bakery!! They do not stand behind their cakes and don't care about their customer's happiness.

Amphora bakery is one of those places that everyone says you HAVE to go to... well they are right :). they were able to take my vision and make something lovely for our special day. We didn't feel extremely special at our appointment (I think watching a lot of wedding shows on TLC made us think they would do cart wheels for us) but it was ok. the tasting was nice and informal and we were happy with the outcome.

If you want the perfect wedding cake, I would not recommend Amphora Bakery. While I did not have the big lavish wedding, we did order a couple cakes for our occassion and was horribly disappointed. I ordered a chocolate cake and asked our names be written on it with emerald green icing. what I picked up was a chocolate cake and some white sugary backdrop with our names written in very small letters. To remove the plaque of white would of meant ruining the wedding cake! They were totally unsympathetic and frankly didnt care to help correct their mistake. I ended up covering it up with flowers. The other cake was ok. It did have the stars I requested and tasted edible. Still, the first cake ruined the moment. I ordered chocolate and red velvet. While they looked different, honestly, they tasted the same. Boring!