Livin' The Pie Life makes pies the way they should be. Our pies are all 100% handmade from scratch using locally-sourced ingredients. For weddings, we make the pie custom and, whenever possible, on the same day as the event so that your dessert will be fresh, flaky and delicious.
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After reaching out to several local bakeries to inquire about wedding cakes, finding Livin the Pie Life was a gift from the wedding planning gods. I tired very quickly of sampling sessions with cover fees, the extensive questionnaires about my color schemes, and price minimums ($800+) of local bakeries for a wedding cake. And, let’s be honest, pies are better anyways. You get more flavors, meaning that there is literally something for everyone!
I took my parents to Livin the Pie Life one day with the intent of buying some slices for us to sample. We met one of the owners, Heather, and told her that we were interested in buying slices to sample options for my wedding. To our surprise, we emerged not with slices but ENTIRE PIES. She gave us 3 (!) to sample for our wedding. After a couple of bites of each, we were all sold on the necessity of having Heather’s pies at our wedding.
The rest of the process was super smooth sailing. Heather recommended 10 pies for our ~70 guests, but we went with 11 pies to have a bit of wiggle room. (And in case the cousins really loved the pies…which they did! It wasn’t all bad to have some pie leftover for post-wedding consumption either.) We paid the deposit and pie price in full, including a very reasonable delivery fee to our local wedding venue. Heather subsequently coordinated with our venue directly, removing us from the picture, but ensuring that our pies were baked and delivered on time.
We chose 3 fall(-ish) flavors: caramel apple crumb, pumpkin praline, and s’mores. We added one s’mores pie as gluten free to accommodate several guests. All of the pies were AMAZING, and our guests LOVED sampling them. We had the easiest time working with Heather and the best wedding desserts in the greater DMV. Can’t wait to head back for more pies soon!
Sent on 10/26/2019
Sam O
· Married on 10/06/2018
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Best pies in DMV
Instead of a wedding cake, we opted for wedding pies, ordering 20 large pies from Living' the Pie Life for our 140+ guests in 4 fall flavors (mile high chocolate, triple berry crumb, pumpkin, apple). During the tasting, Heather gave us 3 WHOLE pies to bring home for us to taste and they were absolutely the best pies we've ever had.
Heather and her team were responsive, professional, and great to work with, answered all questions we had, and made delivery to our venue seamless. Our guests raved about the pies most of all, and we were so happy to have our favorite dessert to cut into at our wedding.
Sent on 10/21/2018
Alex and Julie
· Married on 09/15/2018
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Delicious Pies, Amazing Service!!
I was already a big fan of Livin' The Pie Life before we hired them for our wedding, as I had been lucky enough to have been gifted a pie from their Arlington, VA shop. We were super excited when they agreed to prepare special wedding day pies for our dessert, as well as quite a few quiches, cinnamon buns, and mac and cheese pockets for our brunch the day after the wedding. Our guests still talk about the pies, which were delicious, and we only had one slice leftover at the end of the night. The brunch options were also a huge hit, and we were very happy that the mini mac and cheese pockets were a great to-go size, since some of our guests could only swing by to say farewell before heading to the airport. They were so happy to have freshly baked deliciousness to take with them. As our wedding was threatened by an incoming hurricane, Livin the Pie Life was also extremely flexible days before the wedding, reassuring us that if we needed to reschedule at the last minute, they wouldn't charge us anything to move the order to a new date. Luckily, the hurricane changed course and we were able to proceed with our original plans, but it was a huge weight off of our shoulders to know that we wouldn't incur additional fees despite potentially last minute notice.
We are so glad that we chose Livin the Pie Life for our wedding, and are already counting down the days to our one year anniversary, when we fully intend to recreate the food experience by putting in a replica order (but just for 2!)
