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.

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.

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