Is There Such Thing As a CakeZilla?
Posted by limpetfan | Posted in Weddings, Weddzilla Blog | Posted on 27-01-2010-05-2008
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The only thing I ever felt I would care about to the point of “bridezilla-ness” when it came to my own wedding has always been the wedding cake. I’m a baker, and I’ve dabbled in catering here and there, and so it only felt natural to have strong opinions about wedding cakes. I know that no one ever seems to EAT the cake, but I always imagined having an incredible tasting cake, with an even more incredible look.
Once Alex and I were engaged, the first thing I did was look at wedding cakes, in magazines and online. One of my first questions for potential venues was always about the cake, and if there were rules. So you can imagine my dismay when we found the perfect venue, a venue that includes the cake in the price, even, but were told: 1) you don’t get to taste the cake before the wedding, and 2) you have a set selection of designs you can choose from.
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The above was my internal reaction when we were told we don’t get to taste the cake, and that they prefer it if you pick the design out of a book. In all fairness, the venue we chose is only on the map because of their catering reputation (which is stellar), and they are quite willing to attempt to make any cake design you show them, it’s just that it may cost you more. AND YOU STILL DON’T GET TO TASTE IT.
This blew big holes in my plan to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy choosing a cake. Plus, I totally miss out on cake tasting, which I’ve always thought would be fun. Luckily, my mom went to 5 bakeries before choosing one to make our engagement party cake, so I’ve had my fill of cake tasting for a while.
As far as pointing to something in a book… that’s just not for me. So I have been on the hunt for pictures of wedding cakes that I love, with the hope that the bakers at our venue will be willing and able to re-create one of them.
Here are a few that I keep coming back to:
This one I think is wicked-cool because it involves a snow globe as the cake topper, though I probably would not choose this myself:
And this is my absolute favorite:
It’s just so classic and clean looking! My florist told me she will give me as many loose flowers as I need (no charge!) for the wedding cake if I decide to do this.
Whatever we decide to go with, I will certainly post about it when the time comes.
Where are other brides finding wedding cake inspiration?
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I’m the wrong gal to ask. I wanted cupcakes instead of a cake and was basically told by my father that if I didn’t have a wedding cake he was going to bring his own. Our caterer whipped something up for us to cut and that was that. I do love what you have picked out though!
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I don’t exactly remember my cake… I mean, I remember it tasted good, but it was kind of overshadowed by the groom’s cake in my opinion. Which, to be perfectly honest was completely fine by me. After all, I’m a chocolate girl at heart. And a wedding cake is really not chocolate. But the groom’s cake is!!
I love Steve’s chocolate destruction cake.
Come to think of it… I don’t think we did a cake tasting either. We just used our caterer and she just said it would be good and so we trusted her.
The only thing I really remember about my cake other than that Karen didn’t let us down (it was good) was that my dad brought home a beautiful faux Faberge egg from Austria for the cake topper. I hadn’t even intended on having one cause I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t tacky Stateside and didn’t want to pay a fortune to have something shipped.
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I think my favorite is the black and white! Just remember that high contrast color combos photograph and video the best. SOmetimes things that look beautiful to the eye don’t translate as well on film ( well, digital, but you know what I mean, lol). Like the white on white, trust me, it’ll still look great in your photos but the high contrast cakes just really seem to pop, especially is your photog/videog are really good with their editing skills.
I just love shooting cakes with combos like white and black or pink and green. Those detail shots of the cake with high contrast color combos like that just seem to jump out at you. AMAZING!
I have to say, that if I couldn’t taste the cake I think I would lose my mind! You have much more patience than me. Isn’t half the fun of cake shopping doing the tastings?? As far as them approving or dissaproving your cake design choice, you should bring them a couple of your favorites to choose from. That way they’ll be more likely to choose one instead of just giving you a flat out no.
I wish you the best girly!
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