Wedding Cakes

How To Choose Your Wedding Cake

There are many different designs, types, colours and shapes of wedding cakes to choose from. The best way to choose what you like is to look through books and magazines and then look at pictures of your cake makers work.

Things to consider when choosing you cake are:

The purpose of your cake:

The wedding cake is usually cut into small slices and packaged into small bags for the guest to take home. Another option is to serve your cake as a dessert. It will cost extra for a larger cake but this is offset by reducing your catering bill in the dessert costs. You may also wish to keep the top layer of your cake for your first anniversary or the birth of your first child.

The colour scheme of your wedding:

You may wish to match the cake decorations with the bridesmaids dresses or your flower colours. The traditional wedding cake is still iced in white but coloured icing is a popular option. To match colour schemes you will need to take to your cake maker, samples and pictures of flowers and fabrics.

Type of wedding cake

The traditional fruit cake is still the most popular, though you are not limited to this. Other options available consist of chocolate, white or orange mud cake or sponge cake. If you wish to keep the top layer of the cake it must be fruit cake. You can still have other cake types for the lower layers.

Wedding Cake Decorations

Most wedding cakes are decorated with flowers made of icing or silk. Your cake maker will provide both of these. Another option is fresh flowers. These will need to be ordered from your cake decorator. There are countless designs for the wedding cake. To choose your design look through as many books and magazines as you can.

To order your wedding cake you need to organise an interview with your cake maker.

Things To take with you

• - Picture of flowers
• - Sample of brides dress materia
• - Sample of bridesmaids dress material
• - Sample of reception colors
• - Picture of any cake you have seen and would like them to design
• - Any special decoration or centre piece you have chosen

Things to discuss

• - Cake Size
• - Number of tiers
• - Purpose of cake Type of cake
• - Number of guests. Decorations / Colour
• - Cost
• - Deposit Amount
• - Date and time of pickup.