Chelsea Clinton's cake

Chelsea's cake was from La Tulipe Desserts. Her 9 tiered, 500 pound, 4 foot tall wedding cake was white with silver accents and 1,000 edible sugar flowers! The vanilla wedding cake featured a dark chocolate mousse filling made mostly from organic ingredients - YUM ! This cake cost around $10 - $12 thousand bucks!

Grooms Cake

Having a groom's cake at your wedding is a tradition dating back to the 18th century. Although it is not as common to see one present at weddings today, the idea of it is slowly becoming more noticeable.

It is said that the groom's cake was usually some sort of fruit cake that was given at the enf of the reception to the single ladies in attendance. These ladies were to sleep with a slice of the cake beneath their pillow so that they could dream about the one they would marry. These cakes can now be seen to reflect activities and hobbies - a beer can, fishing boat or something along these lines - made of a darker, richer cake.

I also love the idea of having this cake given as the wedding favor. You can take the opportunity to really get creative when decorating the packaging!

Yummy Cakes!!

The cake is a classic symbol in wedding celebration. It is a long standing English tradition to save the top tier of the cake and serve it either on the couple's first anniversary or at the christening of their first child. Wedding cakes were traditionally made of fruitcake, so the process of saving it was preserved by the brandy and fruit in the cake itself. Nowadays, fruitcake is a very rare choice for cake flavours so they won't last for more then a few months in the freezer. With my own wedding, I was completely opposed to fruitcake even for the top tier. We definately had a good laugh as we celebrated our first anniversary with our families, making them try the year old freezer burnt banana chocolate cake. Personally, I don't even think wedding cake is necessary at all receptions as most catered dinners come with a wonderful dessert.

Cupcakes on the other hand have become very popular in place of wedding cakes. Here are a few ideas on why they are being seen at more weddings

Cupcakes can be easily personalized

They are very economical (keeping costs down for the budget!)

You don't have to cut them as they are already portioned (and you don't have to pay the hall's cake cutting fee!)

They can double as a centrepiece

They are really trendy

A great DIY project (much easier then making an entire wedding cake!)

Can be made into many different flavours!