Cincinnati Wedding Cake Ideas for brides everywhere!

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Wedding cake planning is fun for everyone. Your groom will
enjoy shopping for the wedding cake more than any other item!
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Why is the wedding cake important to Cincinnati brides?

The wedding cake is much more than just dessert or the centerpiece for your reception. Historically, the reception was the opportunity for the bride to demonstrate her skills as a hostess to her new family and their friends. Your wedding cake makes a statement to your new husband and his family about your taste. Choose a good tasting cake and it makes a statement about your skill as a hostess. The wedding cake demonstrates that you honor tradition. The wedding cake is even a photoprop. When you are cutting the cake, everyone will be snapping photos. Long after the cake is gone you will have the photos, and the photos are forever.

Taste and smell are the strongest memories, and you want your reception to be memorable. Your guests will never remember what your centerpieces or chair coverings looked like, but they will definitely remember the cake, especially if the quality is there.

How much should I spend on a wedding cake?

Most of the cakes you see online range from 15-30 dollars a serving. (Check our page of Price Guidelines). Does this sound expensive? Just think: In the grand scheme of things, the cake is the least expensive thing at your reception. It only costs a few hundred dollars more to do the best cake, whereas the best gown or the best flowers or the best catering will cost thousands of dollars more. So if you're on a budget, the first thing to consider spending a little more on is the cake. Every wedding guest looks forward to the cake. Taste and smell are the strongest memories. Long after your centerpieces and everything else is forgotten, your guests will remember the cake!

Award-Winning Wedding Cake Shops and Pastry Chefs

The following shops have been judged by independent experts and by wedding and bridal organizations to be the best in the country. This includes Vogue magazine, The Knot, AOL City Guide and many others. Being the best does not mean being the most expensive since quality, service and affordability were all taken into account. Each has received numerous awards for outstanding product as well as service awards from the bridal event industry. A list of contests may be found below.

Wedding Cake Toppers

Wedding Cake Competitions

Cupcake Wedding Cakes: Tips and Warnings!

The wedding reception has always been the opportunity for the bride to display her skills as a hostess to her new family and friends. The cake is the centerpiece of the wedding reception, and it will be the center of your guests' attention as well. Choose cake that tastes really, really good and looks really spectacular and your reputation as a hostess will be elevated. Try to choose a cake with a different flavor for each layer. This will impress your guests even more because they were probably expecting the usual dry white wedding cake that shows up at most receptions. Put your best foot forward with the best wedding cake you can afford! Upon entering the reception hall and viewing the cake, your guests should immediately understand that they are not in store for an ordinary reception.

Our modern wedding cake actually originated in Roman times. A cake made of flour, water and salt was used during the wedding ceremony. It was tasted by the bride and groom and a bit was sprinkled over the head of the bride to insure fertility. The guests would always want a piece for themselves to share in the good luck and future prosperity of the bride and groom. This is but a small part of the story of the wedding cake. This site will explore all facets of this fascinating subject, including many wedding cake resources for the bride.

The groom's cake originated in the South nearly 200 years ago. A small piece of cake was wrapped in a napkin and given to each bridesmaid and unmarried guest who would take it home and put it under their pillow in the hopes of attracting a groom.

This site was updated on August 25th, 2008