Wedding Cake – Marc & Michelle (23Dec08)

When Marc and Michelle approached me to make their wedding cake (sugee cake  is the standard  for most Eurasian weddings) I was taken by surprise. My sister-in-law  (Maureen) told me that they have been sourcing for their wedding cake and also sampled some cakes which were not to their satisfaction.  One Sunday about three months before their wedding Maureen called to inform me that Marc and Michelle wanted to see me.  Gosh, I was searching my mind and even before I could ask her why when she mumbled something like Michelle wanted to see me about her wedding cake. Both Marc and Michelle came to see me together with Maureen of course (being the mother of the bride and kaypoh) discussed what she wanted for her wedding cake.  However, I did forewarn her to bear in mind that I am not a professional which I cannot be compared with. Luckily she settled to have a 3-tiered stacked cakes with ribbon at the base and roses as decorations.   I emailed some samples found on the internet for Michelle to see what design she wanted.

As her wedding is very close to Christmas, I did not want to take any additional cake orders except for my dedicated and regular customers. Just about a week to the wedding I called Michelle to confirm numbers when she casually asked if it was alright to change the set-up of the cake.  Her dad thought that stacked cakes did not have enough height and decided to have pillars instead.  To change from stacked to pillared cakes is not a problem provided you have enough pillars which I did not have enough of and suggested that she can have a combination of both. Emailed the new set-up to give her an indication of what I meant and confirmed that it was ok.  I also made a base for the cake to give additional height .  As can be seen from the photos,  the construction of the wedding cake taking it’s final shape.