Picking the perfect wedding cake is one task that your fiance should jump at the chance to help you with. After all, who doesn’t love trying out sample after sample of wedding cake? Once you pick the type of cake, filling, and icing, your baker or cake designer can help you pick the perfect style for your wedding.
In getting ready for your cake consultation, be sure to spend some time looking over Pinterest, the Knot, and bridal magazines to find the style that you like best. Be sure and bring these ideas, photos, magazine clips, websites and color swatches to help with defining your style. Your cake can feature metallics, shape patterns, sugar flowers, illustrations, or ruffles. It can have an ombre color gradation, be white on white, or be painted with edible watercolors. You can choose a rich French buttercream or a delightful and sweet fondant.
Do you want a traditional cake with a monogram or special accent for the topper? Perhaps you want your wedding cake to be part of a grand dessert table, complete with coordinated cupcakes, decorative sugar cookies, cake pops or push pops. You might want French macarons, brownies, tarts, and tiny individual cakes.
You’ll also want to look for some inspiration for your groom’s cake. You can have a cake for the rehearsal dinner or the reception. The groom’s cake is the chance to have a little more fun with an outrageous design, a more exotic taste or just an excuse to have an incredible chocolate cake covered in ganache for your celebration.
Your baker will need to know how many guests to serve, and your realistic budget. To seal the deal, you will need to leave a deposit and sign a contract. The contract will include the elements of the cake design, cost, information on delivery, cancelation, and additional fees.
Be sure to get the complimentary top tier of the cake to enjoy on your first anniversary. This is a service most bakeries offer so that brides and grooms do not have to suffer through freezer burnt cake.
Last but not least, plan a cake for you to enjoy, and then your guests. It is your special day. And make sure that no matter how busy you are during the reception, you get to have your cake and eat it too.
