When you’re looking for inspiration and ideas for your wedding cake, one of the first places you’ll probably turn to is Pinterest – lots of our couples come to us with images they’ve found there, and we incorporate them into their mood boards to help give a flavour of what we’ll create. Many couples forget, however, that a large part of the reason wedding cake images on Pinterest look so beautiful and tempting is because of how they’re styled. When it comes to how to display your wedding cake, we’ve got 3 tips for achieving that Pinterest-perfect look at your own wedding – no disappointing desserts around here!
How to display your wedding cake so it looks just like that one you saw on Pinterest!
Even a batch of macarons that fails to bake properly doesn’t make us as sad as seeing a wedding cake looking like an afterthought on the day. Sadly, the positioning and display of your wedding cake often gets overlooked or forgotten. The baked beauty ends up behind a pillar, next to an ugly fire exit sign, or completely lost among its surroundings. We recently delivered one of our wedding cake designs to a beautiful castle venue in Kent. When we saw the florals we knew the aesthetic was going to be out of this world…which is why the huge 6ft round table the petite cake was placed on (and swallowed by) was such a disappointment.
So, let us tell you exactly what you can do to make sure your tiered treat takes centre stage – upstaged only by your dance moves, of course!
1. Taking A Stand
Choosing the right stand for your wedding cake can have a dramatic effect on the finished look, and there really are so many options available now. We have a range of cake stands available to choose from, and can help advise on what sort would work best. Cake stands have come a long way from simply being large, round and silver, and we go into detail about how to decide which one will have the most impact in our blog: Choosing a Wedding Cake Stand – Elevate In Style.
2. Surrounding Style
Popping your cake down on a table and leaving it at that does not a show-stopper make! Think about styling the space around your cake to make it a feature – we love candles and tea lights for this, and you can ask us about making extra macarons to use on your display. Your florist can also provide fresh or silk flowers to go around the base, which looks especially amazing with a macaron tower.
Take a look at Cheryl and Daniel’s wedding cake table – not overly styled, but elegant and personal to them with photographs. They also chose a lovely white stand for their clean, classic cake. This was the perfect example as to how to display your wedding cake.
On the other hand, you can really make a focal point of your cake and tie it in with the theme of your wedding. We loved the display of this wedding cake at The Globe Theatre, turning the area into a real Midsummer Night’s Dream that’s hard to miss. If you’re worried guests won’t try the wedding cake, this is one way to make sure they can’t walk past!
3. Fake It Til’ You Make It
Fake cake aka dummy tiers are often used to add height or increase the impact of your cake design. If you want to make your cake more impressive and a little taller but don’t need the tasty extra tiers, we advise adding dummy tiers. These blend seamlessly with the rest of your bespoke design, and no one would ever know they weren’t 100% delicious sponge!
We often recommend our couples include dummy tiers when their cake is being placed in a large room or as a focal point. They help the cake take up the space it deserves and not get lost. Anything less than five tiers though, and it’s probably going to be outshone by the splendour of the space.
During your consultation we’ll always advise if we think you would benefit from imitation tiers. Here’s how you can get the answers to all your questions on Dummy Wedding Cake Tiers – What Are They and Do I need One?
How to display your wedding cake? It’s all in the detail.
We know that our couples appreciate that their wedding cake isn’t just a cake. It’s the reason you come to us for bespoke designs in the first place. We make cakes that are an integral part of your wedding adventure, designed wholly and completely for you from the tasted and tested flavours to the hand crafted petals of every sugar flower. A lot of love goes into choosing the elements of your wedding cake, and a lot of love is baked into them too. We think that when it comes to the question of how to display your wedding cake, a lot of love should go into that too!
Remember the images you find on Pinterest have been styled to perfection, from the backdrop to the lighting to the placement and adjustment of every other object in the photo. Making your own wedding cake Pinterest-perfect is all about focusing on the details around the cake. We’re always here to advise and help you make it happen.
Are you ready to start designing a wedding cake with serious style? Get in touch and pay a virtual visit to our Bluebell Kitchen.
Photos: Fiona Kelly Photography, Rebecca Douglas Photography, Cheryl and Daniel, Bluebell Kitchen
