If you thought we had a unique system for finding photos of magical wedding cakes...well, we're not exactly magicians, but we do have a couple novel approaches.

Every 90 days, we roll up our sleeves, chug a few pots of java and hit the laptops.

We begin by using search engines Google and Yahoo to rank the first 250 pages for each of the following terms: Photos of wedding cakes, wedding cakes, wedding cake designs, wedding cake pictures and wedding cake ideas.

Then, among three experienced cake designers, they personally click on every link of the 12,500 possibilities to view the results.

They immediately eliminate wedding cake marketing websites whose real purpose is to get you to click on Google ads instead of actually helping you. They also disallow bridal websites, because most brides have already seen those photos.

That leaves authentic bakeries and cake artists. They visit every website and rank them with a score between 1 and 10, with 10 being the highest.

Websites that rank a 7 or higher stay in the running and the rest are dismissed like the losing contestants on those cake challenges.

To finish, each wedding cake designer presents their favorite 100 websites and as a 3-judge panel they choose a consensus 100.

(Beginning next quarter, we will pour over professional cake decorating magazines to consider adding cake designers that are very talented, but don't rank well on a Google search.)

Why did we take the time to explain all of this? It's because most brides only Google the search term “wedding cakes” or a variation and then click images.

The last time we checked there were over 4,250,000 results!

While that sounds like a lot of cool choices to go through, all that sifting is time consuming and has been known to make your eyes bug-out after a few hours. You could be literally clicking photos for 5 straight months, 24/7, before you're finished.

So, to shave off most of that time, we have two ways to help you find some pretty awesome photos of wedding cakes.

First, we give you our favorite choices. Many of these are websites you probably wouldn't have visited, since no rational person spends 4 whole days going through 1250 pages looking at photos…except for us.

Second, we recommend you use specific search terms, such as: Square wedding cakes or Black and white wedding cakes. That way, you'll be able to view photos that are targeted to your actual needs.

To begin your tour, here is the top 100 bakery and cake artist websites for the winter of 2013-2014.

(If the thought crept into your head that we stuffed the list with “Gold Standard Wedding Cake Bakers”…we didn't. In addition, the choices are in random order to prevent any potential conflict of interest or favoritism between Gold Standard Wedding Cake Bakers and non-participating bakers who made the list.)