I love cake, but I love creative wedding cake – that also tastes good – even more than cake itself. There’s something just so awesome about a creative wedding cake that looks so beautiful or interesting that you have to feel a touch of a regret cutting into it. Not every bride or groom can afford a super fancy reception dessert, and not every couple really wants one, but if you have the means and the notion, think about making your wedding cake a confection to remember!

Inspired by stained glass!

How about beautiful birds?

(more…)

Just a little bit of quickie wedding cake goodness today because I am swampity swamped at the moment. But not too swamped to go looking for some sweet ruffled wedding cakes for you to drool over. Seriously, aren’t these just gorgeous? I love how they take their inspiration from wedding dresses – it’s such a great way to pull a look together, but so unusual at the same time.

What fem wedding cakes are wearing this season

Ruffled wedding cakes via: Inside the Life of the Cake Girl; The Twisted Sifter; Artisan Cakes; Maisie Fantaisie; Nicky Grant

When it comes to wedding cake alternatives, everything from milk and cookie buffets to pies to balls of smooshed up cake and icing has gotten that precious 15 minutes of fame we all covet. Where do you go after tiered stacks of doughnuts? Wedding cupcakes are so over… kidding, cupcakes will never die, but still. How about the Hostess wedding “cake” that was suddenly everywhere five years ago? The sundae bar has been done. Cookies, check. Mousse? Check. So where do brides and grooms who are looking for wedding cake alternatives go from here, anyway?

According to one source, the next big thing in wedding cake alternatives is… CakeShooters.

A quick shot of cake

What's the mess potential here, do you think?

The nice thing about CakeShooters is that they can be shipped anywhere in the U.S., so you don’t have to wait for a retail location to open up near you if you are simply lusting after this particular wedding cake alternative. And there are vegan and gluten-free options, too. The not so nice thing, at least as I see it, is that the CakeShooter, true to its name, is a wee tiny little mouthful of cake that costs $3 a pop. I could down about 30 of them, judging by my past experiences with wedding cake, so if you’re a big cake fan, you may want to opt for some other form of cake kitsch. Then there’s how silly people look eating them, which is neither here nor there.

My verdict? Better for a kid’s party than a wedding.

First cookies on your wedding cake, and now candy?! Today’s edition of LOVE/HATE is dedicated to my super fab friend Erin who was the only person I knew growing up who was seriously into candy buttons, aka candy dots. I would never have thought up a candy button wedding cake, but seriously, I don’t think you could ever go wrong with one!

Sweets on your sweets? Count me in!

Gotta love those classic candy dots!

Can you tell I LOVE LOVE LOVE the candy dots wedding cake? If you are a big fan of classic candy, it’s definitely an easy way for your cake designer to incorporate that into your wedding theme.

What’s your favorite candy – would you ever put it on your wedding cake?

(FYI: Today is the last day to enter the Wedding Planning Book 4-Pack Giveaway! It’s easy to enter, and the prizes make for some good reading!)

Classy, zow...

In my opinion, if you’re a grownup person, there’s nothing wrong with drinking or even getting a little (or a lot) drunk. Whether or not to drink and to drink to excess is the choice every adult has to make on their own. As long as it’s done responsibly and you don’t upchuck on my stuff, more power to you. And drinking at weddings is all right, too. But if getting falling down drunk is such a big part of your life that you feel the need to incorporate it into your wedding theme? That’s a little… less than classy, shall we say. It’s like one step above a cake topper featuring the groom holding the bride’s hair while she worships the porcelain deity. Since I prefer classy weddings to weddings on the opposite end of the spectrum, I’m going with HATE on this one. How about you? What would you first impression be if you encountered this wedding cake topper in the wild?

Via Cake Toppers to Top It All

I was totally going to try to prank you – tell you I was getting married again, well, me and The Beard really, because we’re polygamists and we want to be true to ourselves and the world. But then I thought, nah, you’d never believe me because if I was getting married again I’d be showing you 800000 photos of all the things I’d want to include in my polygamist wedding. So instead of a prank, I give you this:

Twins?

What do you think? Cute or meh?

A while back – can you tell I’ve been a bit behind with everything? – Dress My Cupcake sent me some of their colorful cupcake wrappers to check out. Before I got the samples, cupcake wrappers were already on my radar – cupcakes are still a pretty popular wedding cake alternative, but those crinkly paper cups don’t have much going for them.

In fact, I checked out some DIY cupcake wrapper templates last year thinking I’d use them for La Paloma’s birthday cupcakes. But it turns out that regular old computer paper makes for a pretty lousy cupcake wrapper.

What’s nice about the cupcake wrappers from Dress My Cupcake is that they’re more substantial that anything I’d made at home on the cheap – and there are textured wrappers, too, which I definitely couldn’t have made myself. At least not without a bunch of glue and buttons and things. There are a ton of colors and themes, so there’s bound to be cupcake wrappers that match your wedding colors.

Cupcake wrappers from Dress My Cupcake cost about $1 per for the basics, and then there are fancier options. Dress My Cupcake also carried a bunch of cupcake accessories, like cupcake favor boxes and cupcake display stands.

Aren’t they pretty?

I’m disappointed to say that while I tried to make photo-worthy cupcakes to wrap in my sample cupcake wrappers, I failed miserably. Sure, my cupcakes were delish, but they were ugly and not worth wrapping. Hence the stock photos.