If you’ve been scrolling through my previous wedding cake designs looking for the one, I’ve got some slightly inconvenient news. My wedding cake gallery isn’t a catalogue.
You’re not supposed to find it.
My gallery isn’t a catalogue of cakes waiting to be ordered. It’s a collection of cakes I’ve already designed for other people.
Those cakes belonged to their weddings, their venues, their ideas and their personalities.
Yours hasn’t been designed yet.
What is the wedding cake gallery actually for?
Choosing a cake designer without looking at their previous work would be a little unhinged. 🤣
My gallery is there to show you how I design, rather than give you a list of designs to choose from.
You might love the proportions of one cake, the colours of another, or the way I’ve used flowers, texture or an unusual structure somewhere else. You might see something and think, I don’t want that cake, but I love how it feels.
Perfect.
That’s far more useful to me than choosing a photograph and saying, “I’ll have that one.”
Because what I’m really interested in is why you stopped scrolling.
Inspiration isn’t the same as copying
You can absolutely show me photographs of wedding cakes you love. They can tell me a huge amount about what you’re drawn to.
But I won’t copy another cake designer’s work.
And actually, I won’t simply reproduce one of my own previous wedding cakes either.
Instead, I’ll probably start asking what you liked about it.
Was it the colour? The height? The movement? The flowers? The asymmetry? The texture? The fact it didn’t really look like a traditional wedding cake at all?
That’s where the useful information is.
We can take that element and go somewhere completely different with it.
Sometimes what you ask for isn’t where we end up
Back in 2019, I had a bride come to me wanting an all-white wedding cake.
By the time we’d finished designing it, we had blue tiers, silver details and a birdcage incorporated into the cake.
So… not particularly white. 🤣
After the wedding, she told me:
“I’m so glad you swayed me from plain white.”
That doesn’t mean I ignore what couples ask for and make whatever I fancy.
It means the first idea doesn’t have to be the final idea.
Sometimes you know exactly what you want from the beginning. Sometimes you arrive with the safest version of what you’re imagining, and the interesting part happens when we start exploring what else it could become.
That cake was created years before I made the decision to stop offering traditional all-white wedding cakes altogether. Apparently, even then, I wasn’t particularly good at leaving things white.
Your wedding gives me much better material
I’d rather learn about your wedding than spend our design process dissecting somebody else’s cake.
Your venue matters. So does the architecture around the cake, the atmosphere you’re creating, what you’re wearing, your flowers, the colours you’re using and the things you’ve chosen because you genuinely love them.
And no, your cake doesn’t have to match all of those things.
Sometimes contrast is far more interesting.
A tiny detail can become the starting point for an entire design. Something from your stationery, a fabric, a piece of jewellery, the shape of a flower, an architectural feature at the venue or something completely unrelated to weddings can take us somewhere much more interesting than “I like cake number seven.”
What if you have absolutely no idea what you want?
That’s fine too.
You don’t need to understand cake design before you hire a cake designer.
You can know you want colour without knowing which colours. You can want something contemporary without having the faintest idea what that should look like. You can arrive with a Pinterest board full of things that seemingly have absolutely nothing in common.
If that sounds familiar, my Bespoke Wedding Cake Blueprint was created to help you work out what you’re actually drawn to, before we even start talking about cake designs.
Working out why you saved them is part of the process.
In fact, that’s often where the interesting stuff starts.
Look at my gallery differently
So when you’re browsing my wedding cake gallery, don’t ask yourself:
“Which one do I want?”
Ask:
“What am I responding to?”
Maybe it’s bold colour. Maybe it’s sculptural shapes, negative space, unusual proportions, huge sugar flowers, hand-painted details or something you can’t quite put your finger on yet.
Save the things that make you stop.
Bring me the strange reference that you’re not even sure has anything to do with cake.
Tell me what you definitely don’t want too. That’s useful.
Then we can work from there.
Because the best result isn’t that your wedding cake looks like something you’ve already seen in my gallery.
It’s that once yours has been made, it looks like it always belonged there.