The best part of wedding planning has to be choosing your wedding cake. Why is this the best part? Because of cake tasting. Even if you already have a favorite flavor, there is the opportunity to try more flavors and find a new favorite.
Once you have chosen the flavor or flavors of your cake, you start to design your cake. Think of it like working from inside to out. The first thing your baker is going to ask you is how many guests you are having at your wedding. This answer determines the size of your cake. From there, you can decide how many tiers you want and the shapes of the tiers. For a traditional cake, brides typically chose several tiers of a round cake. For a modern cake, brides can chose square cakes mixed with tiers of round cake, or mix up the heights of cake too. Next up is color. After that, you can chose the decorations you want on it and your cake topper.
There are so many options how you can get a wedding cake:
1) Hire a professional pastry chef and have your wedding cake custom designed.
2) Contact, visit, and hire your favorite TV pastry chef. (Chef Duff?)
3) Go to your favorite bakery and ask them if they will make your wedding cake.
4) Ask your friend that loves to bake. (Only if you really trust him or her).
5) Bake your own cake. (I really DON'T suggest this one. You don't need to be stress-baking before your wedding.)
We had such a fun time cake tasting, that Carisa, Richard and I were happily full afterwards. We visited a pastry chef that asked them lots of questions about themselves because he wanted to design them a custom wedding cake. Towards the end, we told the pastry chef that we wanted: A smurfs themed cake, the smurfs have to be Asian and wear glasses, looks like Carisa and Richard, and look like they are going to the Calgary Stampede. I think the pastry chef thought we were "messing with him" by the end. I think it was because we were all on a sugar high!
~Monica
Owner and Lead Designer @Wishahmon
If you missed the first couple of blog posts on Carisa and Richard's wedding planning adventures, you can catch up on how they got engaged, set the date, found a venue, found a marriage commissioner, found a photographer, sent out invitations, took care of out of town guests, found a DJ and found a wedding gown.
Photo Credit: A Wedding Cake Blog
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