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5 Things Your Wedding Cake Maker Wishes You Knew

Remembering all too well, even 6 years later, how much my head spun in our first (actually, in every) meeting with our wedding professionals, I have asked wedding cake designer extraordinaire Dalana of The Cake & The Giraffe to join us here on Chic Vintage Brides and help shed some light on things couples should know about…

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20 of the Yummiest Chocolate Wedding Cakes

Today is International Chocolate Day! And what better way to celebrate than by indulging my inner chocoholic with a roundup of the most delicious looking chocolate wedding cakes you ever will see. After all, who says a wedding cake must be a white iced confection? Especially when apparently more than 50 percent of adults prefer chocolate…

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20 Wedding Cakes with Playfully Elegant Proportions

Giving the conventional a contemporary twist, tall wedding cakes have transformed this tasty tradition in recent years. Tall doesn’t necessarily mean a tower of ten tiers – although that does look lovely – but rather an elegant play on proportions with lofty layers. Starting with the naked wedding cake, and the single tiered confection, statuesque has emerged as…

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20 Creative Wedding Cake Toppers

After looking at some of the biggest wedding cake trends for this year: black beauties, single tier confections and some tasty alternatives to the traditional; today I’ve rounded up some of the most fabulous finishing touches! I am of course talking about the topper, the cherry of the wedding world. You see if these other trends…

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20 Single Tier Wedding Cakes with Wow

After focusing over the last couple of weeks on some stylish alternatives to the traditional wedding cake, I wanted to show with today’s post that your wedding cake can be kept simple and still make a statement and that you don’t have to spend a fortune to create a wedding cake with wow. With these minimalist single…

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20 Breathtaking Black Wedding Cakes

Last weeks post on delicious alternatives to the traditional wedding cake (hope you didn’t miss it, it was a corker!) got me thinking about how else today’s couples can express a little individuality and create a wow with their wedding cake. And one of the easiest ways that came to mind was colour, and in particular…

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20 Delightful Wedding Cake Ideas for the 1950s Loving Bride

Last weeks Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons, which in case you missed it was packed full of the most perfect bridal hair accessories, was just the start of this series of 1950s themed posts. Each Friday over the coming weeks I’ll be looking at how to infuse your celebration with some mid-century inspired styling from hair accessories to wedding cakes, bridal gowns and groom’s attire, bouquets to bridesmaid dresses…..you name…

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20 Deliciously Deco Wedding Cakes

Art Deco has been the biggest wedding trend of recent years (thanks largely to Leo and The Great Gatsby), and long may it continue I say! So, after looking at bridal hair accessories and wedding invitations in our Art Deco themed series of Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons, today we’re looking at wedding cakes. Whether you are…

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5 Wonderful Winter Wedding Cakes

Good morning, it’s nearly the weekend – and there are only 2 weekends left until Christmas?! Eek! But before all that, this week’s Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons is continuing our series of Winter Wedding inspiration posts and looking at 5 of the most wonderful Wedding Cakes. For whilst I have learnt over the 3 years I…

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Delicious and Imaginative Dessert Tables

The dessert tables that have, for some time now, been taking the wedding world by storm aren’t just scrummy traditional cake alternatives, they are a fab way to personalise your wedding and with a little DIY or help from your nearest and dearest can also save you a few pennies! Or they can elevate a sweet…

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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #58

Following on from my recent Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons dedicated to the most dapper of Grooms and fabulous of Bridesmaids, this week I have decided to turn my attention to the detail that creates one of your guests final impressions of your big day – the wedding cake! 1. It was, as always, an impossible…

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20 Wow Wedding Cake Alternatives

What I love about weddings today is how the personality of the bride & groom show through, and that doesn’t have to end with your dress, vows or decor. Wedding cakes no longer have to be… well cakes! If a traditional wedding cake isn’t really you then why not treat your guests to a taste…

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