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The Best Wedding Cakes in Vogue
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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 Vogue’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. Then there are those who opt for adventurous flavors: take Karen Elson, who chose Earl Grey icing.
Below, see some of the best (and most unusual) wedding cakes published in Vogue—and perhaps you’ll find inspiration for your own.
Expand“The icing was Earl Grey flavored, and the inside was a spongy salted caramel,” Karen Elson says of her wedding cake by . “The decoration was beautiful, but the taste was also incredible. She is an artist!”
ExpandFor her wedding at her childhood home in Westchester, baker Stefanie Nass made her own cake that doubled as decor. The 28-foot-long creation was adorned with cherries and ranunculus flowers.
ExpandFor their wedding at Cap Estel in Èze, Kid Cudi and Lola Abecassis opted for a grand millefoglie topped with strawberries.
ExpandLaura Hanson Sims topped her traditional cake with the same topper her grandparents used on their wedding day.
ExpandTiler Peck and Roman Mejia had a Victorian-style wedding cake by Ron Ben-Israel for their classic New York City wedding.
ExpandThe couple asked Brooklyn-based Yip Studios to make their eight-tier cake.
ExpandThe former Miss Universe and San Francisco 49ers running back chose a classic vanilla sponge and red velvet cake for their New England wedding.
Expand“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.
Expand“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.
ExpandValery Kaufman and Dimitri Varsano’s wild berries and cream cake was over six feet high.
ExpandAustyn Weiner and Dylan Lewis asked Loria Stern, a baker known for her use of edible flowers, to make their wedding cake.
ExpandAndy Baraghani and Keith Pollock’s classic New York wedding included more than 15 desserts—including an elderflower cake with crunchy honey nougat.
ExpandYellowstone actors Ryan Bingham and Hassie Harrison went for a floral-themed cake for their western wedding.
ExpandShawn Lakin and Matthew Spector opted for a “table cake”—or, a custom semi-circle table covered in a flat lemon-poppyseed cake—for their highly original wedding at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
ExpandAlexandra Dorda, the CMO of her family’s vodka brand Chopin, included a boozy surprise in her white chiffon wedding cake: the fresh strawberries were soaked in the liquor and accented with rice paper flowers.
ExpandFloral accents adorned the wedding cake of Lucrezia Bonaccorsi Beccaria and Giulio Rossi Prodi, who got married at the bride’s family estate in Sicily.
Expand“Even though we had a tiny wedding, we wanted a big, vintage-style tiered cake. It just felt proper,” Kat Dennings says of her wedding confection. “It was vanilla cake, filled with strawberry buttercream. Enough to feed 100 people.”
ExpandMeredith Rothman and Jamie Iovine’s ’80s-style wedding cake was made by Los Angeles-based cakemaker, ChariotLA.
Expandmade a cake inspired by the tulle of Kristina Levitan’s dress for her and Steven Levitan’s Brentwood wedding.
ExpandGrace Soldatos and Devin Brow had a four-tier chocolate sponge cake adorned with pink sugar flowers.
Expand“I was set on an almond cake, Will was set on lemon, and I really wanted a chocolate cake for my grandmother’s birthday that fell on the same week, so we decided that more was more and went with all three. We served each guest a slice of all three cakes,” Caroline Constas says of why they served multiple confections at her New York City wedding.
Expanddesigned a simple white cake with tropical flowers inspired by Rei Kawano and Matthew Yoder's floral arrangements.
ExpandMelissa Jacobs and Austin Landow had a classic croquembouche wedding cake lined with baby’s breath for their South of France wedding at the Hotel du Cap.
Expand“Cake is my most favorite thing in the world. So, for our wedding cake, I knew it had to be from my most frequented allergy-friendly bakery, By the Way Bakery,” Beanie Feldstein said of the cake she chose for her summer camp-themed wedding to Bonnie Chance Roberts. “It was a vanilla gluten-free, dairy-free cake with latte filling and it was absolute heaven—and gorgeous too!”
Expand“The banana dulce de leche flavored cake did not disappoint,” Joey King said of her wedding cake.
ExpandMario Rodriguez Graniel and Guy Rejwan couldn’t pick just one cake flavor for their wedding in Oaxaca—so instead, they offered seven different confections to guests, all made by local Mexican bakeries.
ExpandAt their Miami wedding, Danielle Brooks and Dennis Gelin had a stunning seven-level vanilla and red velvet cake.
ExpandAt Tom Guinness and Tish Weinstock’s gothic wedding at Belvoir Castle, their dramatic cake matched the moody, romantic ambiance.
ExpandSarah Hyland describes her wedding cake, adorned with lemons, as the “most delicious.”
ExpandA creation by . There were three flavors in each tier—lavender, espresso, and tres leches. The flowers were made with traditional French chocolate molds.
ExpandThe couple worked on their architectural cake with Heather Anne Leavitt, of in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
ExpandKhadija Fouchard of created two cake flavors for the couple; one with red velvet with cream cheese frosting and one vanilla cake with lemon cream. They saved the top layer, which was a combination of both flavors, to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
ExpandA berry-topped, tiered confection.
ExpandA traditional Swedish “princess cake”—a torte made up of sponge cake and pastry cream—decorated with roses and a miniature 3-D print of the couple on top.
ExpandThis giant St Honoré cake was the biggest the patissier ever made, at 80 centimeters in diameter.
ExpandThis cake was cookies-and-milk-flavored.
ExpandA gigantic Tarte Tropézienne, the one and only dessert of St. Tropez.
ExpandThis cake was accented with floral garlands and icing made to look like lace.
ExpandA multilayered naked sponge cake filled with lemon curd and crème patisserie.
ExpandLayers of cake and flowers.
ExpandA carrot cake with layers of buttercream and all sorts of berries.
ExpandThe cake complemented the greenery of the Napa vineyard where the wedding was held.
ExpandThe couple named their cake “Il Robbiano.” It was inspired by the Florentine sculptor Luca della Robbia. “We loved the meringue, cream, and crown of fresh fruits on the flat cake,” Sabine says.
ExpandThe cake flavor was Funfetti, which the couple served alongside old-fashioned peanut butter, chocolate chip, and sugar cookies.
is the senior lifestyle writer at Vogue. She covers interiors, travel, food, royals, and weddings. Previously, she worked at Vanity Fair and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine. In her spare time, she’s attempting the Sisyphean task of writing her first novel. ...
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