What was your wedding cake like?

Question

Did you go traditional fruit cake? Or something a little bit different? How was it decorated and what was your colour scheme?

Ok so maybe fruit cake is not that traditional in the USA, but in the UK it certainly was a few years ago when all of the people around my age got married, I have not been to a wedding in a long time!!!

Answer 1

Two cakes for me, one is 4 tier caramel mud cake. . .MMMM and the other a BIG lamington.

It is actually decorated in a sea theme with sea shells, star fish and dolphins for a beach wedding, all sea colours too.


Fruit cake was the traditional wedding cake, but less common these days with so many varieties on offer. We hate fruit cake, but like mud cake. Being Aussie I wanted an Aussie cake so we also settled on the Lamington.

Answer 2

My first wedding cake looked traditional iced in white but it was actually fake, make of cardboard with icing on. We pretended to cut it and they passed around pieces of fruit cake already cut up. The reason for this was the cost.

My second wedding cake is going to be a three tiered chocolate cake with mousse inside. The edges are scalloped and decorated with white rose petals. This will be eaten as part of the dessert at the wedding reception.

My colour scheme is going to be orange tiger lillies and white flowers in rusted pots with a rust coloured organza runner across each table (round tables) and white chair covers.

Answer 3

We had a three-tiered cake, traditional white icing with fresh flowers (hydrangeas, pink roses, etc., echoing the smaller flowers in my bouquet), and the toss bouquet as the cake topper. The bottom and top layers were the chocolatiest confection the baker could come up with, and the middle layer was a spiced rum cake for those few odd people who aren't chocoholics....

Fruit cake has a bad reputation in the States (though I don't understand why, my grandmother's fruit cake is fabulous), and I think the groom's (also chocoholic) mother would have led a minor revolt if we'd gone with fruit cake....

Answer 4

I had 3 square tiers. 2 were fruit and the top one was sponge (my husband doesn't like fruit cake!). It was very simple, white icing and each square was tied up with gold ribbon to make them look like parcels and then placed on top of each other at an angle so it did look like a pile of parcels. They were all different sizes. I got married last year and my colour scheme was cream, gold and green. I went to a wedding in February this year and the bride chose for her 'cake' 3 round cheeses piled on top of each other and decorated with grapes to eat after the traditional meal!

Answer 5

Ours was a 3 tier cake, round in shape, it had beautiful peach and cream roses with little sparkly silver beads set in the icing around the edges of each tier, it was a fruit cake and made for us by a friend who is a master baker, my husband isn't too fond of fruit cake but ate a piece just for me as I am a bit superstitious, they say if you don't eat a piece of your own wedding cake your marriage will be over in a year, 22 years on were still as happy.

Answer 6

Four tiers - bottom two fruit cake, middle tier lemon cake with lemon curd filling, top tier chocolate and raspberyy coulis. Yum! Icing was totally smooth and white with a very slight lilac shimmer. The tiers were split by glass cubes and there were sugar calla lillys all over the top and trailing down over the tiers. Our colour scheme was white with a hint of lilac so it was perfect. The sugar flowers also had trailing ivy (sugar) which fited in perfectly with our whole scheme.

Answer 7

Three round cakes...designed that the biggest(white) was the tallest, medium(chocolate) size next lower tier and the smallest(white) cake was on the table.

I had ordered a "Snowbabies" bride and groom, and that was our cake topper.

We also had cupcake trees. These were chocolate and white cupcakes, decorated in fall colors.

The cakes were decorated with off white frosting and fall leaves were scattered around the cakes and table.

Answer 8

Fruitcake is still the traditional wedding cake in the UK, but it never was in the U.S. American wedding cakes are usually white cake with frosting.

My cake was three tiers, and each was a different flavor: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. It was yummy!

Answer 9

Our cake is going to be 4-tier, with the smallest being 6 inches. I hate fruit cake but my fiancé loves it, so just the top layer is going to be sponge cake. The rest will be fruit.

I like simple, elegant designs, so the cake is going to be decorated with ivory icing with a simple pattern and is going to be stacked one layer on top of the other instead of with the traditional pillars between each layer. Our colour scheme is burgundy and ivory, but we're just going with a cluster of ivory sugar roses on the top.

Answer 10

Mine was 4 tiers, white cake and white buttercream frosting, with red roses completely filling in the space between each tier. The wedding had a red and white/silver color scheme, perfect for a Christmas season wedding.