Where Inspiration
Comes From:
Design Ideas for Wedding Cakes
By Renee Shelton
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Clip
as many magazine pictures and leaf through as many cake decorating
books for weddings as you desire. Make notations on what you like
about each, which ones strike your fancy, and which might look great
in a different icing or fondant color. Also, if some have a particular
ribbon or candied flower, bring this up at the meeting with the
baker to discuss the placements and if it is possible for the baker
to recreate the sugar paste flower or if they can be purchased. |
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an invitation that you've picked out and especially love? The
scroll work or other element can be incorporated into the design
or used as border for a wedding cake. |
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Your
wedding dress design can
be incorporated in the wedding cake piping decor. These are
actual samples from weddings. From left: photocopy and enlargement
of wedding dress lace, photocopy of antique cross-stitched linen,
swatch from sequin beading and design of wedding dress. By using
something from you, your wedding cake can be uniquely
yours, and will make it a memorable cake not just for you and your
groom, but the entire wedding party as well, as the story for the
cake design will be the talk of the wedding. |
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is the font "Times Roman" that was used as a template
for monograms for wedding cakes. Times Roman is a popular choice
for brides as a font monogram, as is hand script, calligraphy-style,
and Sans Serif block letters. If you have a font that you particularly
like, type all the letters you want in your monogram in uppercase
and enlarge as desired. For most monogramming, two sizes will be
required: one size for the bride and groom's first names and one
slightly larger for the last name initial, to be placed in the middle.
This, of course, can be changed as desired to make all letters the
same height. These copied letters are then used as a template, with
parchment paper placed on top and royal icing piped on top and set
to dry until needed. |
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Ribbons
can be easily used to decorate a cake, and turn a very simple
rolled fondant covered cake with no piping into a fantastical and
elaborate cake. You are limited only by the fabric store you shop
at. The ribbon used can be transparent, metallic lamé, satin,
beaded, or embossed. The color choices need not be solids, as plaids,
florals, scroll-work, stripes and other color patterns can be found. |
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your baker, wedding planner or catering professional sketches
on paper notes that you talk over about your cake, what better piece
of memorabilia is there to add to your wedding scrapbook? |
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Tiffany-style
boxes are a fun choice for individual cakes for weddings. Or
perhaps doing a three-tiered cake in a fun and colorful gift-boxed
style? A popular choice for stacked multi-tiered cakes is to have
alternating round and square boxes or to have each tier of different
heights and shapes. |
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is an actual template for a groom's cake, obviously in the shape
of Texas, an enlarged cut-out from an aerial map. State cakes are
popular choices for grooms cakes, and if he was born out-of-country,
the shape of his native country can be used. These are not limited
to geography, as sports, hobbies, college colors and pennant flags
can all influence the designs, shapes, and colors used on and for
the cake. |
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Copyright
© 2004-2010 Renee Shelton.
All Rights Reserved.
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Recipes Index
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