Guide to Wedding Cakes From Suffolk

Wedding Cakes are one of the most important parts of any wedding celebration. It is often the centrepiece of the Head Table, or brought out during the reception to amaze the guests. It is often colour-co-ordinated to fit in with the bride's dress, wedding the flowers or the wedding reception decor, and is a main feature in wedding photographs - "cutting the cake" can provide you with an excellent opportunity for photographs, which will be cherished for the rest of your lives.

Suffolk is home to a number of fantastic cake makers & suppliers, all more than glad to discuss your requirements with you, ensuring your wedding cake, like the rest of your happy day, will be perfect.

Here are some important things to remember when ordering your wedding cake from Suffolk:

Design of your cake - nowadays, wedding cakes come in all shapes and sizes, including the traditional tiered cakes (how many tiers, that is the question!) to more modern and unique designs.

Wedding Cakes - Choosing Your Wedding Cake

Choosing a wedding cake to suit your wedding theme can be a chore if you haven't a clue where to start. There are tons of cakes ideas and you are presented with dozens of choices but the tricky part is choosing the best baker, one who understands your wishes and can show an amazing portfolio.

Budget and Cake Size

Before embarking on the wedding shopping, brides must have a definite wedding theme in mind. This guides them throughout the wedding preparation and managing the budget; after choosing the motif for the wedding invitation and the wedding dress; the next big task is shopping for the wedding cake. Currently, bridal shops carry a wide range of wedding needs, including exquisite wedding cakes. But before seizing the first proposal offered, stand back and go over these important details.

How much can you spend for one and how many guests are you expecting for the wedding party? The number of guests determines the size of your wedding cake. Size is a factor that adds up the expenses for the wedding cake. A regular-sized single layer cake cannot treat a hundred guests. You are looking for a cake of epic proportions to give all the guests a generous slice of the wedding cake.

Inexpensive Wedding Cakes That Look Gorgeous

Inexpensive wedding cakes are a great way to save some of your wedding budget but they can look cheap and that is not the look you want in your wedding photos!

Rather than spending a fortune on what in the end is just cake, have a look at the cakes that your local supermarket is producing. Most stores will now sell celebration cakes in a variety of flavors that are decorated in white icing and you can buy various sizes if you want your wedding cake to have several tiers.

To make your store bought cake look gorgeous you can decorate it in a number of ways.

• Tie a ribbon that matches your wedding colors around each cake and then add a cake topper for a simple and classy look. You can buy lots of different cake toppers online or choose a light weight ornament to use instead.
• Fresh and silk flowers look gorgeous, all you need are the heads of the flowers and some ivy.
• Fresh fruit can work in miniature and you can add an extra sparkle by covering in egg white and sprinkling sugar over.
• Sugar petals look expensive but they are so easy to make and look great with just a few petals on each tier.
• Curls of chocolate look great on the cake and also around the cake.
• Either make your own or buy ready made rolled fondant and from this you can create hearts, monograms, flowers, butterflies and lots more. Use these to decorate the tops and sides of the cake.

Cupcakes are a popular trend to use for an inexpensive wedding cake and although plain cupcakes are cheap to make and buy, when they are decorated they can be expensive. To avoid buying expensive cupcakes look at making your own cupcakes and decorating yourself or buy the plain cupcakes from your local store. Decorate the cupcakes individually with fruit, flags, stars, fondant hearts, or even sprinkles! Really anything works on cupcakes.

The cake stand you use to display your wedding cake will also add a touch of glamour to your wedding photos, most wedding venues will have their own cake stands that they will lend free of charge for your wedding - you just need to ask!

Suzanne Daykin is owner of http://www.cheap-wedding-solutions.com.

Suzanne has spent the last 14 years working in the Hospitality Industry as a wedding planner and event manager. Organising thousands of functions from small personal parties to large corporate product launches in the UK and Europe.

Currently a work at home mum, Suzanne set up her own event company in 2006 and now looks to help future brides and grooms save money when they are planning their wedding.

More cheap wedding cake ideas and a gallery of great cakes for inspiration.

Homemade Wedding Cake Topper Adds A Personal Touch

The Knot Inc., which runs two wedding-related Web sites, surveyed the spending habits of 18,000 couples who got married last year, and found that on average couples spent more than $500 on a professionally decorated cake.

There are ways to limit that cost, experts say.

For starters, craft your own cake topper, and end up as well with a keepsake.

A recent "Martha Stewart Weddings" favorite, for example, was clustering colorful, craft-store butterflies along one side of a fondant cake, says Darcy Miller, editorial director. Another: Top the cake with a tea cup, either from grandmother's inherited china or from your own, registered china.

Another lively topper comes from "Real Simple Weddings," an annual guide published by "Real Simple" magazine: Deputy Editor Jaimee Zanzinger suggests placing tiny images of the bride and groom in elegant frames on top of the cake.

She's also seen small cornhusk dolls adorn a cake's top, and notes that many of these craftsy items can be commissioned.

Teri Bellman Garvin, 38, of Golden, Colo., ordered a simple fondant cake from a baker for her own April wedding, then personalized it herself with a mountain-biking theme. Instead of paying the baker nearly $100 for chocolate-covered strawberries that were supposed to mimic boulders, she and her husband, John Garvin, substituted chocolate truffles from their local Whole Foods Market.

Garvin says the design represented the couple's passion for cycling on trails near their home and the force with which they fell in love. The cake had two trails running up either side and meeting at the top. It was crowned with two, iron-crafted figurines — hair-tousled caricatures flying off their bikes — that Garvin purchased from an online shop.

Read complete article in SouthCoastToday.com

Plant City's Strawberry Festival Sees Its First Wedding

PLANT CITY — Four years ago, Jennifer Faircloth and Jeff Lingerfelt had their first date at the Florida Strawberry Festival.

"It was just the day my family always went to the festival each year," said Lingerfelt, explaining why he chose to take Faircloth.

On Saturday, surrounded by their families, closest friends and hundreds of fairgoers, Faircloth, 19, and Lingerfelt, 22, became the first couple to be married at the festival.

"It's awesome" to be married at the site of their first date, said the bride.

The Lingerfelts tied the knot at the festival's pavilion, accompanied by a procession of wedding party members, sheriff's deputies and the Durant High School Junior Air Force ROTC honor guard.

The couple was selected from a number of contestants who asked to be married at this year's festival, said Sunny Smith, who coordinates special events.

The contest ran during September, Smith said. Entrants had to submit a photo with a 300- to 500-word essay explaining why they wanted to be married at the festival. The contest was limited to eastern Hillsborough County residents and it had to be a first marriage for both the bride and groom.

Angel Carter, chairperson of the entertainment tent came up with the idea last year.

"I passed it on to have the board look it over and they went for it. They thought it was the greatest thing," Smith said.

In addition to the service, the couple received a free reception, complete with strawberry wedding cake, free dresses for the bride and her bridesmaids, a free room for the wedding night at the Red Rose Inn and Suites in Plant City, as well as free festival admission for up to 50 guests. The festival's official photographer also shot a wedding album for the couple.

While the ceremony was open to all festivalgoers, only invited guests were allowed at the reception.

Jeff's mother, Lorie Lingerfelt, said the free wedding was a nice surprise.

"I didn't even know Jennifer wrote the (contest) letter," she said.

Jennifer's mother, Julie Faircloth, said she was happy about all the freebies that came with the wedding.

"It came out better than we could afford," Julie Faircloth said. "And she found herself a good man."

Smith declined to say how many couples entered the contest. The selection committee was impressed with the fact that the Lingerfelts met at the festival and are both graduates of Plant City High School.

They were also touched by the fact that they wanted to get married last year, but couldn't due to financial problems, Smith said.

Jeff Lingerfelt said he was grateful to the festival for making their day memorable.

"It is such a wonderful blessing," he said.

Taken From TampaBay.com