As a young girl, Jessica Lannes-Duprey often daydreamed about her perfect wedding. “I wanted everything to be romantic and magical, and for my vision of this day to become a reality,” she says. |READ|

It’s just dessert, right? Ask any bride that question, and watch how she responds. Wedding cakes have never been just dessert. |READ|

When Gabriela Othon Lothrop was planning her wedding, she and her husband-to-be, Michael Lothrop, knew they wanted to make the food a big part of the celebration. |READ|

They’re not just desserts. The cupcakes of Holly Wilder, the tortes of Patti Schmidt and the truffles of Marci Arthur are culinary works of art. |READ|

We have a food truck that offers five-star cuisine, a restaurant with a view of giraffes and wildebeests, a chef with a green thumb and another who invented a whole New World. |READ|

You may never have heard of Joe Lewis. And that’s probably okay with him. Lewis, a British billionaire, is the principal in the Tavistock Group, a private investment company with interests in more than 175 firms worldwide. Lewis keeps a low profile locally, but when the history of Orlando is rewritten decades from now, he will undoubtedly rank alongside Walt Disney as the most important businessperson ever to turn a shovel of Central Florida sand.

Nearly every available surface at McCrae Art Studios, from the worktables to the walls, is covered with canvas, splattered with paint or crowded with odds and ends of metal, plaster and clay. If it isn’t art already, it’s on the way to being there. The ramshackle warren is shared year-round by 23 of the area’s best-known painters, sculptors and graphic artists. For one afternoon, we transformed it into a showcase for our own fall fashion creations.

The soon-to-open Legoland Florida has created a whole new job category: “Lego Master Model Builder.” We talk with a member of this elite group of overgrown kids, and offer a preview of the new theme park at the old Cypress Gardens site.