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Planning Your Wedding Cake

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Choosing your wedding cake is a big decision. There are many different styles to choose from.

In this section, we have tried to make choosing easy for you by including a step-by-step guide to planning your wedding cake.

Wedding Cake Sizes and Portions

Firstly you need to work out how many guests you have as it is traditional to cater for your day and evening guests.

The Wedding Venue

Look at your venue think about how you would like it to be decorated, take it into consideration.

Choose Your Colour Scheme

Colour is one of the most important aspects of your wedding day.

Choose Your Wedding Cake Flavours

Gone are the days when the only choice you had was a fruitcake.

Different Styles of Wedding Cakes

Traditional: A traditional style wedding cake is a tiered cake separated by pillars, choose from royal icing or fondant icing.

Wedding Cake History and Customs

Today, wedding customs worldwide are very similar.

Wedding Cake Decorations

In Australia around 1660 sugar novelties were first used as decorations on cakes, this idea spread throughout.

Wedding Cake Design Since 1900

The early years were known for their extravagance and romance, after the death of Queen Victoria wedding fashions became more feminine and so did wedding cake designs.