As Friday was the big day, I spent Thursday afternoon and evening making sure I had everything ready to be transported to the wedding venue, packing it all into boxes to make sure everything was secure and sorted.
Once the figures had dried, I marked their position on the top tier so I would just be able to place them onto the cake once I was at the venue. I also had a play with the rose petals to make sure that they would compliment the design. Ideally I think I would have liked them to be smaller so they were in proportion with the figures, but I think they looked good and gave a lovely effect to the finished cake.
We managed to get everything to the venue in one piece with me cradling the roses in their polystyrene tin. It was a very careful drive with a small heart attack every time we had to go over any speed bumps, but luckily there were no casualties.
We assembled the cake stand and also the cupcake wrappers, and then started to fill the tiers. Until you start to see your design and all of the different elements come together, it can be very difficult to visualise how it's going to look, but I was so pleased with the outcome.
Once we had filled the bottom two tiers to add a little stability, I stuck the figures to the top of the cake with some royal icing, then stuck the rose petals around their feet. Then using a cake lifter I carefully put the cake on top of the stand. I was so worried that it would wobble, collapse or any number of catastrophes would occur, but it all went smoothly. I then propped up the rose by using balls of sugar paste, one to attach the base of the cocktail stick to the stand and the other to prop up the petals so they didn't have to take the weight of the entire rose. I also use some more royal icing to make doubly sure that it wouldn't move and then we filled the rest of the tiers with a mixture of the different cupcakes.
Once everything was assembled, I also re-lustred the white parts of the figures to make sure that any finger marks were removed and they looked their very best.
Unfortunately when we had a play with some spare cupcakes on the stand on Wednesday, we realised that unfortunately all 80 cupcakes wouldn't fit. I spoke to the hotel and they said that they had some vintage stands that we could use to take the overflow. I added the second rose to one of the stands and secured it in the same way as the stand and then filled them up with the rest of the cupcakes and the remaining rose petals which were put on a separate table next to the main cake stand.
I am so pleased with the final outcome of the creation of my very first wedding cake. I have learnt so much and I will take these lessons and will apply them to all my creations in the future, but mostly I was so pleased that I was able to provide a small contribution to make a wedding as special as possible. I really hope the married couple enjoyed cutting it and the guests enjoyed eating it as much as I enjoyed making it.
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