The purpose of your cake:
The wedding cake is usually cut into small slices and packaged into small bags for the guest to take home. Another option is to serve your cake as a dessert. It will cost extra for a larger cake but this is offset by reducing your catering bill in the dessert costs. If you have a wedding cakes innovation, you may also wish to keep the top layer of your cake for your first anniversary or the birth of your first child.

The colour scheme of your wedding:
You may wish to match the cake decorations with the bridesmaids dresses or your flower colours. The traditional wedding cake is still iced in white but coloured icing is a popular option. To match colour schemes you will need to take to your cake maker samples and pictures of flowers and fabrics, then he will give you pretty romantic wedding cakes.

Type of wedding cake:
The traditional fruit cake is still the most popular, though you are not limited to this. Other options available consist of chocolate, white or orange mud cake or sponge cake. If you wish to keep the top layer of the cake it must be fruit cake. You can still have other cake types for the lower layers.