decadent desserts
yummmm….groom’s cakes!
Groom’s cakes, a tradition started in the south, is still a favorite among brides in the Midwest. Traditionally the cake was a gift from the bride to the groom and it was packaged individually for wedding guests to take home after the reception.
Now the groom’s cake has morphed into it depicting the groom’s favorite activities or interests. One thing for sure, while the couple’s cake is regal, the groom’s cake is downright fun! Here are few from some of our past weddings:
A couple of good ideas if you want to buy your groom a cake:
- Keep it a surprise. All six cakes above were a total surprise to the respective groom’s; and they LOVED it!!!
- If you have a large cake for your wedding, consider giving the groom’s cake at the rehearsal dinner.
- If you love tradition and want all your guests to see the groom’s cake at the wedding reception, be sure to plan ahead and keep the box it was delivered in. 10 out of 10 times you’ll be bringing that whole cake home with you that evening.
- Finally, a cute way to get rid of some cake is buy small “wedding cake favor bags”. Have your caterer cut up the remainder of your wedding/groom cake and insert slices into these clear bags. Strategically place these by the exit door and guests can grab one as they are leaving the reception.
what wedding traditions should you keep? part four
Let’s keep going and discussing wedding traditions and which ones we should keep or ditch?
#4 Wedding Tradition: Cake Toppers
Many brides have been steering away from the traditional cake topper. Instead with the new cake decor and trends, more fresh flowers are being added to cakes. This makes some cake designers cringe and others just shrug.
If you are going to go this route, here is a little trick and money saver idea for you. Have your florist carefully wrap your cake topper as a “mini bouquet” that can be wiped off and used as your “toss bouquet” as well!!! Two for one! We like that.
Tomorrow the series finale!
what wedding traditions should you keep? part two
We’re talking about a wedding traditions and which ones we should keep or ditch?
#2 Wedding Tradition: Cake Cutting Server Set
This is one of our personal favorite “enigma’s” of weddings. Tradition (meaning wedding stores) will encourage you to purchase a silver knife and cake cutting server set, sometimes inscribed with your name and wedding date. Where does that go after the wedding? You know where. Back in the velvet box stuck inside a cabinet somewhere. There’s no way you break it out to cut a piece of homemade pie on a Wednesday night. Instead, considering borrowing the server set from your parents or use a nice net set that can be easily reused in your daily life.
Tomorrow we’ll continue this series…
anyone care for old slice of wedding cake?
If you want a piece (tee hee) of Princess Diana’s wedding, today is your lucky day!
A slice of Diana’s wedding cake that has been preserved for 27 years in a former servant’s attic (yuk) is going on auction today! They are expecting it to yeild up to £20,000. For old, stale, 27 year old cake.
Check it out:
The cake slice has the crest on it, which makes it very valuable (well of course!) and it also comes with a letter from Princess Diana (now we’re talking).
I guess everyone’s gotta be doing something (that’s what I say when I don’t understand things).
Good luck to the winning bidder!
Plan on!-saundra
photo: from thisislondon.co.uk
love your wedding cake designer
Real wedding cake from Brooke and Jacque’s wedding. Gorgeous cake created by Judy Ward.
We are continuing our special series on “loving your wedding vendor”.
Today we are going to talk about your wedding cake designer.
Works of art, is what the wedding cake is! The most memorable visual item that guests will remember and talk about at the water cooler the next day.
The popularity of over-the-top wedding cake designs can be attributed to Sylvia Weinstock, whose name is synonymous with wedding cakes. Even the hip, cool, reality show Ace of Cakes have helped for average people to understand what it takes to build these creations.
Our clients have differing views towards their wedding cakes. Some client’s priority is for the cake to taste wonderful, others just want to make sure the cake looks fabulous and then there are some who are concerned with both. So you want to be sure you are choosing a wedding cake designer that will caterer to your priority.
Reasons why you should love your wedding cake designer?
- Believe it or not, your wedding cake is much more than “just flour and water”, like Steve Martin said in Father of the Bride. You have to appreciate how much
- They have more weddings than just yours on any given weekend, but give each wedding their undivided attention.
- You have to appreciate the fabulousness of how they get those layers to stack on each other, without tipping over.
- They work under high stress; and sometimes limited information (wrong setup times or heavy cake toppers).
- They deliver their masterpieces sometimes in difficult weather conditions (intense heat, ice, snow and rain).
- After setups, they have to deal with challenges…cakes do lean. Somehow they work their magic and it turns out wonderful!
- Like artists, they are challenged to come up with new deigns and ideas; it’s a constant movement forward.
- Can you create art with food? They do, and for that….they are cool!
Behind the scenes:
At one of our weddings a cake designer, whom I use quite a bit, was late delivering the cake. We’ve worked together so many times I wasn’t alarmed at first. It wasn’t until about an 1.5 hours before the ceremony (reception was at the same location), I started to get concerned.
Her truck broke down! By the time she got another ride to the reception, the cake icing started to slide (it was a July wedding, HOT HOT HOT). She got the cake setup and then re-iced the entire cake – basically redesigning it. Nobody knew the difference (most importantly our clients) and when we cut the cake we simply cut off the extra icing off on the outside layer. I won’t lie, it was about 2 inches thick.
Bottom line, even though the wedding cake designer faced adversity, she fixed it and the client and guests never knew the difference. For that, you should love your wedding cake designer!
Plan on! -saundra
Next week: love your wedding wait staff and bartenders, florist, videographer and more!
congratulations mr & mrs jacques white
Well they did it!! Jacques White and Brooke Waninger tied the knot!!! It was a wonderful wedding with a superb family….I cannot help but send lots of love to them. Especially to her mom, Lisa Waninger. I think I helped her the most! She’s like me…a bit of a control person…so to see her let go and let me take care of the details for her daughter’s wedding, was….priceless.
Here’s a few pics from the wedding. I loved the colors! Bright and beautiful, just like Brooke.
Plan on! – saundra
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