I have always liked Marks and Spencer cakes and so I will buy three of their wedding cakes in different sizes and stack it myself. I was going to buy one of their ready decorated ones which are very reasonably priced, but because I like to be creative I am going for a plain one and will put my own ribbons and bling on it.
My daughters theme is butterfly, incase you haven't seen the invites that I made, so you won't already know this! :)
I bought some mexican paste and pretty cutters and made some butterflies, they have turned out really nice and look even better dusted with edible pearl dusting, even though I know people won't really eat them because the mexican paste sets like porcelain!
Club green sells gorgeous "bling"cake decorating items, so when I saw them recently at the NEC, I was filled with all sorts of ideas for the cake. I had already wanted a bling theme but seeing all their items really decided it for me.
I searched the web and found http://www.thehandcraftedcardcompany.co.uk/ and bought a sparkly cake brooch which I plan to pin over a nice bow and I also found http://www.thelittlecakeshop.co.uk/ and bought some gorgeous diamante letters which I can push into the cake, plus diamante trim to sit with the ribbon.
I ordered a small tier and brought it home to have a practice, I needed to know what width ribbon I prefered too, as I wasn't sure if I would like deep edge ribbon or narrow!
I like the thicker ribbon effect better so that is now sorted and the top layer will have some of my butterflies around it.
The diamante lettering is going on the middle tier, but I just wanted to see what they looked like so had to play with them too!
So, this is the look I am going for, can't wait for wedding week now, so I can do the real thing!
I will be saving myself lots of money doing it this way too!
1 comments:
The cake looks beautiful! Your getting excited! x
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