Cake glorious Cake

As some of you may know, I had a slight disaster with my wedding cake this week which has prompted me to look around for wedding cake suppliers. Cakeabella's in Maldon www.cakeabella.com/ came to my rescue and I am meeting up with them in April to discuss my design.

However this little problem made me think about the wedding cakes and how to pick the theme of your ultimate cake for your big day so I sought some advice from Lucie Waller from Wonderland Bakery about the themes and trends she is seeing emerging for this summer.

1 of the key trends coming through is using the cake to incorporate key design features that tie your wedding together may it be using your flowers on the cake or taking the design of your invitations and using that as the pattern on your cake. I am having an art deco themed wedding and I having been thinking of using some of the design from my invitations on my cake to tie it in all nicely (but also loads and loads of feathers!)

Alongside the bright trends we are currently seeing on the British high street this trends is also coming through in cake design, bright bold colours to match in with the flowers. I personally love this design below as it is beautifully bright

http://www.facebook.com/wonderlandbakeryuk#!/

For those of you who like the idea of cutting a cake but don't want the hassle of having 3 or 4 tiers to cut up to give out at the reception, why not have cupcakes with a traditional cake at the top! Purchase some fab favour boxes and you have saved yourself money on buying favours by giving out the cupcakes

I have also fallen in love with the idea of cake pops that seem to be popping up (excuse the pun!) that weddings over the last couple of years, also an easy favour for your guests



Speaking of all this cake has made me hungry but before I sign off I have one for idea to share with you all that I absolutely love as it ties the 2 things together that I love; vintage china and cake!

Below is a smaller take on my previous post about a fab company called French made who use rustic and vintage ideas to make up dessert table but below is a fab idea for all you DIY brides out there.

Ruby x http://www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk/

P.S Thanks to Lucie for all the beautiful images and letting us use them