Hawaii Wedding Cake
Mar 1st, 2007 by admin
Choosing your Hawaii Wedding Cake
Your Hawaii wedding cake is the first food you’ll share as husband and wife. This is why choosing the right kind of cake for your ceremony is essential. But before you begin calling bakeries, you’ll want to make several important decisions like: budget; wedding’s location; cake decorations and symbolisms; and cake size. A beautiful yet practical cake will complete your dream Hawaiian wedding.
Steps To Ordering Your Perfect Hawaiian Wedding Cake
First things first, you need to decide how much you’re willing to spend. If you’re like I was before my marriage and have no clue about the costs of wedding cakes, I would suggest you phone a few Hawaiian bakeries and ask for quotes. If there is a wide price discrepancy among bakeries, don’t hesitate to ask them why. You may even find out what kind of ingredients they use to eliminate the low quality, fly-by-night shops. When you narrow down the list, ask each bakery for a list of past customers for references.
The item to consider is where you plan to hold your marriage ceremony or - if you decide to have one - your wedding reception. In other words, where you plan to cut and eat the cake. Cakes that will be exposed to the hut sun or a strong sea breeze must be constructed to overcome such environmental hurdles. Most Hawaiian bakeries are familiar with these outdoor challenges to cakes and plan accordingly. They may even suggest using portable shoji screens that shield cakes from anything a breeze might carry like sand and leaves.
When you choose the cake’s flavor, remember that the filling often represents the glue that will forever secure your marriage. Cakes’ fillings can symbolize different qualities you want to seal the union. For example:
Strawberry stands for a dignified marriage
Raspberry signifies a thoughtful and giving union;
Cherry and orange represent a joyful partnership; and
Almond symbolizes self-control.
Cakes made for Hawaiian weddings ought to have more decorations plastic bride and groom miniatures. Because husband and I are avid rock climbers, ours had our figurines ascending the cake’s vertical “rock face.” With a tropical background, you may have your decorate your cakes with spectacular scenes from Oahu, Maui, Honolulu, or even the Big Island. Hawaii’s sky is the limit.
The size your Hawaii wedding cake should factor in the number of guests and how much you’d like left over as wedding dessert for your first anniversary. Again, this is the time to be creative. Some Hawaiian weddings have cakes shaped as waves, beaches, and tropical Islands. But most of all, weddings cakes are not only delicious, but they’re fun. So have a blast and have the best Hawaiian wedding ever.
