Here’s every reason you should reconsider the classic wedding cake.
It wasn’t fancy, but it didn’t need to be—all I wanted was a small, simple confection that I could ceremonially slice into hand-in-hand with my new husband, with icing I could smear all over his face. A two-tiered, almond-flavored pound cake with plain white sugar frosting for $109.95 fit the bill, and none of my guests were the wiser.
I’m not the only one who thinks towering fondant monstrosities are supremely overrated. Of the four wedding experts we spoke to, all said that the isn’t the must-do tradition it used to be. Still on the fence? Here’s every reason you should reconsider the classic wedding cake .Nicole Sheppard. Making a big to-do of slicing a fancy cake requires shutting down the band and grabbing everyone’s attention, which can have a major wind-down effect on the evening’s energy.
In contrast, “dessert being passed [on trays by waiters] extends your party,” Sheppard suggested. “Having things that are portable and smaller”—like cookies, brownies, donuts, or cupcakes—“are really great because they can be passed around the dance floor. That gives people a way to keep dancing and not have to worry about sitting down and stopping the party.
If the cake-cutting tradition is important to you—it was for me!—Larson suggests buying a small, basic cake to fulfill that purpose. With that out of the way, “you can get fun with the dessert: various cupcake towers, a donut wall with cotton candy woven into it, and different fruits that have been dipped in chocolate, platters of cheese,” to name a few options.
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