Have you ever seen or heard of cupcake centerpieces for a wedding? I was a little surprised when I heard about them, but after a few minutes the idea make a lot of sense. Cupcake wedding cakes are such a hot and trendy item at weddings, and some brides use miniature wedding cakes as their centerpieces to play a sort of double duty of centerpiece and wedding cake. So if you’re planning on having cupcake wedding cakes at your wedding instead of the large traditional wedding cake, and still don’t know what kind of wedding centerpieces you want to have for your wedding, why not consider this novel idea of cupcake centerpieces for your own wedding? Here are a few great ideas on how to pull off the idea.

Rent Your Cupcake Stands

When I first heard this idea, my first thought was that cupcake stands are pretty inexpensive, so why not just buy your own? Read the rest of this entry »

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Are you looking for a new kind of wedding cake that isn’t your traditional round tiered wedding cake? Square wedding cakes are a pretty new modern trend that many brides are going with to help make their wedding cake stand out from the rest. Square wedding cakes can be anything from traditional to trendy for a great eye catching decoration at your wedding reception. Let’s face it, even though some people aren’t big fans of cake, they still look forward to seeing what kind of wedding cake you chose to have at your reception, and they’ll probably try it as well, so you need to pick a wedding cake design and shape that suits you best. For me, square wedding cakes are more of my style, but that isn’t the shape that I went with in the end, but I kind of wish I could.  So here are a few of my favorite things about square wedding cakes.

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There are lots of people out there, in my family especially, who will swear up and down that cupcakes actually taste better than regular larger sized cakes. Personally, I don’t know if they taste better or not, or if it’s just a mental thing about having your own little cake – but I guess it doesn’t matter too much. When my cousin got married a few years ago and wanted a cupcake wedding cake for his groom’s cake, our family wasn’t really surprised at all. It had been my first time seeing a cupcake wedding cake, and it actually went over pretty well. Turns out, that a few years ago, you really didn’t see bakeries offering cupcake wedding cakes as part of their portfolio. That’s because brides just weren’t interested in having cupcake wedding cakes, else they didn’t know that they could be done in the place of regular wedding cakes. But wouldn’t you know it, give it some time and now it seems that cupcake wedding cakes are really where it’s at right now. Here are frequently asked questions about cupcake wedding cakes to help you decide if they are right for you or not.

Why are Cupcake Wedding Cakes so Popular?

Cupcake wedding cakes are popular because they are so different than your traditional wedding cake.

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