Dessert Takes Center Stage
If a traditional wedding cake isn’t within your line of thinking, why not look to a new alternative dessert to please your guests, your budget and your decor.
Bridal couple’s spend a lot of time and money on choosing centerpieces for their guest’s tables, and an equal amount of time and money on their wedding cake or dessert choices. But by combining these two elements, you can save yourselves both time and money while still adding a unique design element to your guest’s tables. Simply design your desserts to be your centerpieces.
Choose the same style of dessert for each table or mix it up a little, by choosing pie for one table, cheesecake for another, and a chocolate torte for a third. A particularly good idea if guests are allowed to seat themselves, so that like minded individuals can sit together. What better of an ice breaker than to know you at least have in common the same taste in desserts?
For those who favor a more uniform look, you can still go with different desserts as long as you keep the differences to a minimum. Choose 2-3 of the same desserts to repeat throughout the room and add decorative accessories that remain uniform throughout. An idea similar to those couples who look to two different floral centerpieces created at differing heights to add a unique design element to the room.
To accessorize your centerpiece desserts, look for unique cake stands, with or without covers. Bear in mind that a cover can add its own design flair, while also protecting the dessert should it need to stand for period of time. Use fresh, silk or porcelain flowers on top of your desserts, or place them on a round mirror and surround them with small tealights or votives, for a luminescent quality.
For those whom uniformity is a must, but who still wish to please a variety of tastes, look to the old/new standby of cupcakes arranged on a tiered holder at each table. Each individual cupcake can be a different flavor as long as to preserve the uniformity aspect the icing on each cake is the same.
While cake is the traditional wedding standard, there is nothing that says your centerpieces can’t be made out of pie equally beautifully displayed, or something even healthier in the form of fruit kabobs, made into a beautiful bouquet for your centerpiece or even cookie bouquets that guests can admire and nibble at the same time.
If a traditional wedding cake isn’t on your list of must haves, why not give it to your guests instead in an untraditional way – just be sure to have some beautiful servers alongside so that guests can serve themselves.
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