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Wedding Cake Tips – Unique Cakes For Your Wedding

February 10th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Wedding Cake Tips

Executive Summary by Nin Romanov

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Unique Cakes

Your wedding cake design should demonstrate your personal taste and style and of course fit the décor of your reception. You don’t need to settle for any traditional style wedding cakes. Be different. Unique cakes can be a great way to wow your guests. Imagine all of your guests standing in line drooling over the unique cakes.

Choose your unique cakes only after you have decided on your gown, the bridesmaid dresses, the reception site, the theme, colors and anything else that could have an effect on which cake you choose.

Unique cakes inspiration may come from looking at pictures of wedding cake designs. You may find a photo that will help you design unique cakes of your dreams to enhance your reception. One example is flowers theme for your unique cakes.

There are several approaches one can take in choosing unique cakes designs, from traditional cream or white icing in classical designs to totally modern artistic colorful masterpieces. Nowadays anything goes.

Traditional round wedding cakes may soon fade out since all sorts of other shapes are becoming very popular. Square, oval, heart, octagon and other shapes are gaining in popularity for unique cakes in your wedding. However some couples still prefer traditional round cakes and flavors like cheesecake for the wedding cakes.

Here are some questions to ask yourself when deciding your unique cakes design. How much can you spend on the cake? Will the cake be the only dessert? How big of a cake will you need? Not every guest will want cake if you offer other desserts or a meal.

Will a particular cake fit your reception decorating scheme and menu? Today’s cake designers offer an almost endless variety of cake styles, decorating, choice of construction, flavors, icing and decorations.

How many tiers do you want, in what colors? Do you want a custom made, one of a kind cake topper? Make your cake topper reflect that interest. There are very nice online stores that sell a wide variety of elegant and whimsical wedding cake toppers.

Try to make preliminary decisions on these and other issues before you consider visiting any bakery or cake designer. However stay open to suggestions from these experts. You can get your unique cakes from your caterer, reception site or bakery. Try to order your cake from someone who specializes in wedding cakes or who does one or more weddings a week.

Ask for references and check them out. Ask past clients if they were satisfied with the cake and if they have any hints for dealing with this particular baker or bakery.

Also read other related articles about Wedding Favors and Printable Wedding Invitations to help you answer questions about wedding.