Being accused of stealing fondant flowers (sorry long)

I am boiling! I got a call today from a vendor that I work with alot at one of my venues. She said that one of the other area cake people sent a letter to the venue accusing me of using the fondant flowers off of her dummy (on display at venue) for one of my brides cakes!!! This bride asked me for a design similar to one she had made. I tried to direct her to that cake decorator but she insisted she didnt like the way her cakes tasted and she didnt want her to do her cake. I did the cake a few months ago. It was larger and covered in a mass more flowers all of which were more dimensional than those on her cake. I made every single one of them, all 150 of them. Plus honestly, you cant think you have the market on white cakes with white flowers, THEY ARE WEDDING CAKES.

She is now taking the flowers off of her dummies (how im not sure since mine are always attached with RI) and marking her initals in sharpie on the back of them. I DO NOT NEED TO STEAL HER OLD FONDANT FLOWERS. I am more than capable of making my own that look nicer anyway! This woman has never liked me and looks at me with much less than kindness when we are at the same event.

We are polar opposites, she uses boxed, i make from scratch, she makes crisco cream, I use smbc, she uses alot of non sugar items on her cakes (ribbons, laces, flowers) I like for everything on my cakes to be sugar. I am more expensive than her but have a lower profit margin because of my ingredients. I only take 1 MAYBE 2 cakes in a week and she will take a mass at once. I am not a threat, there are only so many weddings I am willing to do. I know she doesnt like me (I really dont know why, I have neverbeen anything but nice to her, honestly) but accuse me of stealing her flowers, REALLY,?!?!?!?! It is obvious I wasnt supposed to know about this, I really want to say something to the management since I feel like she is badmouthing my busniness and professionalism. FURIOUS

I am very close with the people who own and run the venue and have not been approached by them. When I delivered the cake in question the owners daughter in law (manager of the venue) watched me putting MY flowers on the cake and commented on how beautiful they were. Everyone there knows me and knows my work. I would hope they wouldnt even listen to such nonsense. I have a delivery there tomorrow and I will talk to the manager then.


The horrible thing is that when I first started I thought it would be great to have a cake friend and went out of my way to be nice to her anytime we were at the same event. But this woman wants nothing to do with me While I do think that my style of decorating is more precise and artistic, the work she does is nice and her clientele will obviously be different than mine. I dont so much think of myself as better than her, just a different market. Not every bride wants artistic and scratch made (because it comes with a price) and for those that like mix cakes and inedible items (ribbons and real or silk flowers) on their cake she is a really good option. I am just at a loss for why she has it in for me.

I would say that was possible if not for the fact that she is now insisting on writing her initials with a sharpie (which must look wonderful ) on all of her flowers from her displays so no one can take them again.

I am going to talk with the managment tomorrow when I deliver this next cake but I am concerned that she may ride this lie for a while and tell potential customers that I steal her work. I work very hard at what I do, take great pride in it and dont want my good name ruined by this woman whether motivated by jealousy or not