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Tips for choosing a wedding cake

Searching for a wedding cake can be fun but stressful.  Here are a few tips when you are looking for the perfect wedding cake.

  • Reputation of the Bakery

Start your search online to get customer feedbacks from other couples.  Check out the bakery’s website to view samples of their work.  Next visit the bakery.  Meet the staff and speak with the cake’s specialist.  You should be able talk over your design ideas together and come up with a plan.

  • Time to pick a wedding cake

Once the couple knows the wedding theme and color scheme it best to decide on your cake.  Usually 6 months is plenty of time to order your cake.

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  • Taste the cake

Arrange for a cake tasting before you order.  This process in not only fun it is tasty!

  • Design your cake

Many couples use the color theme of their wedding to design their cake.  No longer does the wedding cake have to be white with a plastic figurine on top!  Customize your cake to your personality.

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  • What’s in fashion

Matching the brides dress to the cake is in style this year.   Some cakes feature the dress’s details such as the pearls or ribbon.  Using the bride’s jewelry choice as inspiration to design the cake is another idea.  A great place to search for ideas is on Pinterest.

Kristen is a wedding photographer in RI.  Contact www.kccphotography.com for more info.

Kristen Capaldi Creighton Photography 1035 Main St, Coventry, RI 02816 (401) 374-3779

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