When planning a wedding today, a bride can be very creative and non-traditional. One of the best parts of the wedding to get creative in is the reception. This is the place where you will really be able to express yourself and your own unique style. A great place that brides nowadays are breaking from the traditional is the wedding cake. There are two new trends among brides to replace the typical wedding cake that are always pleasing to the guests.
1) Unique Cake at Each table
The first way to break away from the traditional wedding cake is to actually have many small cakes. Make the center piece of each table an individual cake just the right size for the number of guests sitting at it. This is a very clean and simple way of decorating your tables and still using cake as the dessert. A creative bride will love this option because it allows you so many different choices. Not only can you choose to decorate each cake with different colors, keeping with the color scheme of the day, but you can also mix up the cake and filling flavors. You will love all the color and variety all these cakes bring to your banquet room. Guests will always love cutting into their cake to see which flavor they got, checking in on what other tables have, and trading pieces to get a sample of them all. This is a fun and interactive take on the wedding cake.
2) A Candy Bar
If you are ready to get away from tradition altogether and have a lot of fun with this part of your wedding day, then consider a serve yourself candy bar. This can be set up at one large table displayed in the room or at several different stations throughout. By using the bride and groom’s favorite candies or a color scheme with the candy pieces, the room will be fun and colorful.
This works best if there is a chosen color scheme that ties in with the wedding colors. Also, all the candy should be displayed in different sized vases and dishes. Placing boxes of different levels on the table first and then covering it with your table cloth with let you display all the dishes on different levels and give the table a lot of dimension. Ask the reception hall to place the table at a well lit area of the room where they can use shadowing and reflection to help decorate the table.
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