5 cake designs perfect for a sustainable wedding. Hotel weddings - Dorset - South West
Choosing to have a sustainable wedding cake made doesn't have to mean you compromise on a beautiful design.
Instead you will be getting a show stopping cake which also happens to be kinder on the environment and full of delicious and sustainable ingredients.
Here is some advice about where you could display your eco friendly masterpiece and which styles and finishes work beautifully in a hotel setting.
Where to display your cake!
Have you considered where to have your wedding cake on show?
The majority of hotels have a room change over during your wedding and your wonderful wedding team will zip around transforming your ceremony room into your reception room.
Most hotels are not particularly keen on moving a wedding cake, which means your cake maker will need to deliver in this change over window.
So your options are -
. The wedding reception room - where you have your first meal as a married couple.
. Your evening party room.
. In the room/ outside where you are having your canapés.
I loved the position of this tropical burst of colour in front of the window.
Now you have the room you would like, here are some tips how to get the most out of your cake and some things to consider.
. Your cake will always look far more impressive in natural light but away from direct sun. In a dark corner, it will likely be overlooked.
. Please please please, don’t put the cake table in front of something ugly like a fire extinguisher, radiator or cupboard door. It makes cake designers cry inside.
. A dance floor cake cutting cake look brilliant, but consider if the dancing will happen before the cutting. No one wants to eat floor cake if it gets accidentally knocked.
. If the room is dark, don’t despare. Maybe have a chat with your venue about seeing if they can provide some extra lights. A twinkly LED light background can look gorgeous!
Having a hotel wedding opens up the opportunity to a number of desings where in other settings such as marquees, the cake won’t hold up as well thanks to thier temperature control.
5 cake designs perfect for a hotel wedding.
Seasonal flower cake - For spring, summer and autumn weddings, you have the most amazing beautiful flowers to choose from. We are so lucky down here in the south west as our flowering season is longer than other parts of the country. With regulations tightening in England with regards to flowers on cakes, it’s important to make sure your cake maker is supplying flowers they know are to be non toxic and pesticide free.
2. Painted flower cake - Painted flowers are a great option to add extra interest and dimension to your cake. Why not have an element from your invites or stationary transferred onto your cake? I adored this wildflower cake from a little while back. It sparked my love for painted flowers and has inspired a tonne of designs since.
3. Painted landscape cake - Did you know a scene can be painted on to cake?
How about the place you got engaged or where you had your first holiday together?
You could opt to have all tiers painted or just the one like this cake, but it certainly won’t be a design your guests forget for a while.
4. Dried flower cake - Dried flowers have come back in a big way over the past few years and I am absolutely here for it. I love the textures and muted tones. Perfect for a range of wedding themes from an elegant affair or a rustic, wholesome wedding reception.
5. Edible flower cake - Another love of mine is an edible flower cake. I pressed my own flowers sourced locally or grown by myself and I buy in my edible freeze dried flowers from a gorgeous company based in Portland, Dorset. They add such a beautiful natural touch to a cake and some of the different freeze dried varieties taste blooming lovely!
6. Bonus tip - Sustainable wedding favours - As an additional sustainable tip, how about opting to have an edible wedding favour! I wrap my delicious treats in compostable bags for that extra sustainability kick. Biscuits, brownies, cake pops! Yum! How about these piped flower shortbread lollies!
I hope this has given you some food for thought and left you inspired to plan your beautiful cake.
Much love
Tash x
I would love to help you plan your perfect cake.
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