Julie Deffense is a luxury wedding cake designer in Sarasota, Florida and Lisbon, Portugal. Julie brings nearly 20 years of impressive design experience and living abroad to her international design of luxury cakes. She works with each couple to create a one-of-a-kind luxury fondant, buttercream or wafer-paper wedding cake for their special day. Julie has been designing couture-style wedding cakes since 2010. Julie has been operating her wedding cake business in Portugal since 2010. In 2013, she expanded to Boston, Massachusetts and in the spring of 2017, to Sarasota, Florida. Julie Deffense Artistry creates custom, luxury wedding cakes that vary in price depending upon the complexity of the design, the number of guests and the size of the cake, from an intimate celebration cake to a custom-commissioned tower of edible art. Julie divides her time between the glorious, wedding destination coastal areas of Sarasota, Florida and Lisbon, Portugal. Depending upon season and availability, she accepts special commissions across the U.S. or in other European countries with close proximity to Portugal.