PJ Magerko-Liquorice and Jordan Millington-Liquorice’s ten-foot wedding cake. In need of wedding cake ideas? We’ve got a few. The ceremonious confection has, after all, been a tradition for millennia: its roots trace back to ancient Rome, where grooms would break a barley cake over their bride’s head to officialize their union.
Thousands of years later, Queen Victoria served a royal icing cake to her bridal party for her marriage to Prince Albert—the earliest precedent of the all-white style that’s still commonplace today—whereas her son, Prince Leopold, is often credited with being the first person to serve a completely edible tiered cake on his wedding day in 1882. (A , which is on display in Kensington Palace, shows it was decorated with putti figures holding bows and arrows.) Fast forward to the present day, and wedding cakes have become a highly personal matter of preference—and, as we’ve seen in ’s wedding coverage—sometimes even an art form.
Take Umber Ahmad s brutalist-inspired cake, or ten-foot wedding cake that required sabers to cut. At the culmination of their three-day St. Tropez extravaganza, Sarah Staudinger and Ari Emanuel cut an enormous Tarte Tropézienne, while Babba Canales served a Swedish “princess cake” with a miniature 3-D print of the couple on top.
Below, see some of the best (and most unusual) wedding cakes published in —and perhaps you’ll find inspiration for your own. The couple asked Brooklyn-based Yip Studios to make their eight tier cake. The former Miss Universe and San Francisco 49ers running back chose a classic vanilla sponge and red velvet cake for their New England wedding.
“We didn’t want a traditional wedding cake, so we opted to have it during our after party which was clearly an excuse to deck it out in rhinestones,” Jesse Light says of the dessert served at their Soho Farmhouse wedding. “Our cake was covered in flowers and was a traditional Italian wedding cake,” Tatiana de Pahlen says of her and Charles Lorenceau’s choice of dessert. Valery Kaufman and Dimitri Varsano’s wild berries and cream cake was over six feet high.
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