Just like bridal dresses, wedding cakes can also be trendy or obsolete. A traditional wedding cake for younger Jamaicans is usually a white vanilla or some other flavoured cake in towering stacked layers. For older Jamaicans you can’t have a wedding without some fruit cake or black cake.
As summer wedding season draws to a close, let’s take a look at some of the wedding cake trends we’ve seen so far. Plus the ones we’ll be tasting in 2020 – 2021
Our top wedding cake trends are:
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Floral Wedding Cakes – Having a floral wedding cake with all the new wedding cake techniques will transform your wedding cake into a blooming,flowery masterpiece for your wedding in Jamaica.
- Hand-painted Wedding Cake Trends – Not a fan of the bold, dramatic approach to a wedding cake design? You’ll adore this current trend that is popping up everywhere at the moment – a misty, subtle touch of colour to add a softness to a traditional, white wedding cake. Try pairing your chosen colour to the shade of the flowers on top, to create the elegant illusion that one is melting into the other.
3. Botanical-themed Wedding Cakes – Many bride and grooms have traded flowers for ferns as decoration for their cake. In place of the pastel petals are crisp, elegant, green leaves, which add a new dimension to its shape and colour. This cake trend is ideal for a modern wedding, to help create a natural and clean colour palette.
4. Geometric Structures and Details – We have seen surge in popularity of the geometric wedding cake. Precise lines and immaculate detailing creates the most striking, yet understated, effect for decoration. 2019 has seen this trend be experimented with from the pattern of the icing, to the actual body of the cake. In this case, it really is all in the details.
5. Metallic Wedding Cake Trend – Metallic hues are certainly not a new trend when it comes to weddings, however, in 2019 the bronze effect has never been more popular. A nod to the rustic chic trend that has dominated weddings over the past few years, the bronzed wedding cake is a subtle and modern development from the metallic designs that we have seen in the past. Not as garish as gold, and not as subtle as silver, the bronze effect is always a showstopper.
6. Mosaic Designs – For many Jamaicans it may not be their first choice but for many they want something different. This style takes the geometric trend to the next level in wedding cake design. With echoes of Morocco and the Middle East, these ornate designs add an exotic dimension to any traditional wedding cake, as well as being visually striking. Whether you choose to emulate this trend in white icing or coloured, the effect is equally beautiful.
7. New Flavours for Wedding Cakes
This year for Jamaican Weddings as it was in 2018 and 2019 there has seen a huge movement away from the traditional fruit cake and flavours of vanilla, strawberry and lemon, and instead has replaced them with flavours far more exciting and a little unexpected. Other flavours that are popping up in wedding cakes around the world are pistachio, pink champagne (below) and lime, which all add a beautiful flavour and pastel shade to a simple sponge.
8. Alternative Wedding Cakes
From cheese cakes (cakes made out of actual cheese) to fruit cakes (cakes made of actual fruits) to doughnut towers, taking a step away from a traditional wedding cake is as popular as ever.
9. Vegan Wedding Cakes – With quite a few persons with food allrergies if you want to ensure your wedding cake is inclusive to guests with dietary and allergy restrictions? Get yourself a vegan wedding cake! There are a few bakers in Jamaica now offering vegan wedding cakes. That number I am sure will increase in months to come, which means sourcing the perfect edible showstopper is easier than ever before. Choose from rainbow cakes and naked cakes, to more traditional, multi-tiered creations – the world’s your oyster.
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