The Carrie Underwood wedding was an amazing event with all the glitz and glamour you expect to have in a celebrity wedding. However it had some key points that will definitely be the big trends for summer weddings the remainder of this 2010 season and next year. One of them is the wedding cake.
The happy couple wed in southern style at a Georgia resorts 80 miles outside of Atlanta. The couple decided that even though many other portions of th wedding followed traditional themes, they went the unconventional route with their wedding cake. The cake was actually not one cake but several. The wedding cake was a cupcake tower made of gourmet cupcakes with vanilla frosting.
The cupcake tower is a growing trend for many weddings because it offers many advantages over the traditional wedding cake. A normal wedding cake comes in several large pieces stacked on each other, needs a cake topper, cake serving set, and can take days to prepare and can be tricky to serve. The cupcake tower gives all the esthetic beauty of a normal cake but gives the efficiency of individual servings provided by cupcakes.
Carrie Underwood?s cupcake tower was an amazing vanilla confection that had elaborate decorations in addition to the vanilla butter icing such as edible pearls. These decorations helped to give the cupcakes the full sophistication of a normal traditional wedding cake in pint sized form.
Carrie Underwood when asked about the cake state that the cupcake tower was one of her few breaks with a traditional wedding and that she did so wanting to do something unexpected and fun for her guests. If there is anything you can say about a cupcake tower you can definitely say it is a novel confection and will be sure to turn heads at wedding.
The cupcake tower designed for Carrie Underwood?s wedding was designed by Ivey Cakes a bakery run by the wife of the bass player in her touring band. The bakery is based in Tennessee and was chosen since Ms. Underwood had the privilege on previous occasions to eat the cupcakes.
A good thing about the cupcake tower is that is something both celebrity and ordinary brides can enjoy. In the case of Carrie Underwood one can see how the stars have it done. But if you are a bride on a budget you can find more affordable versions of the cupcake tower that you can use for your own nuptials. You can check with local bakeries to see if they are able to make them. Most should have the tools and apparatus to do so. If you are a bride interested in DIY,then making cupcakes can be much easier than going through the effort of making a full traditional wedding cake. Most importantly comparison shop and try to look for bakeries that have experience with this type of wedding cake.
Underwood?s wedding cake demonstrates how you can take a traditional part of your wedding ceremony and transform it into something unique and eyecatching at the same time. This is sure to be a growing trend in wedding deserts and confections in the coming years.
