Cake stands are a fantastic way to display your wonderfully designed confection. As if you needed one more detail to worry about right? No worries, we’ll cover it all for you here.
Just think about it: you spend countless hours designing your wedding day dessert, meeting with the baker, trying to come up with the absolute perfect design, height, and shade of pink that matches your bouquet…you get the picture.
Wouldn't it be a shame if your beautiful piece of baking art, was displayed in the corner, on a polyester linen with bad lighting and a cheesy foil covered cardboard cake stand? Prevent that from happening! Take some steps with your baker and reception site and plan ahead.
Here are some great tricks on how to give your confection the attention it deserves:
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Rent a Cake Stand
Rent a Pedestal? These pedestals are a fantastic way to display your wonderfully designed dessert. Unfortunately pedestals can be extremely costly, and you can usually only purchase them. We did say “usually”! CakeStandRental.com enables brides on a budget to have the pedestal they have always dreamed of, at a minimal cost.
Wedding Cake Display Tables
You wouldn’t think that a dessert table could be that important – but it is. It would be a shame if your wedding dessert, a beautiful piece of art was displayed in a dark corner, on a crooked table with a polyester linen and bad lighting, right? In this section we’re going to cover the three L’s of a good table: Location, Linens & Lighting.
Cake Display Stands
Display your confection with impressive pedestals! It's another way to do your fabulous dessert some justice, add to the wow factor, impress your guests! Most desserts are put on standard cardboard rounds or wood. Custom options can be made by a potter or silversmith – even with a monogram. You can even rent them.
Plating Your Cake
Plating your dessert? As if you need to think about any more details! But ya do. After spending all that time choosing the perfect icing and decor, making sure it was center stage at the reception, was well lit…on the proper table, etc. Wouldn’t it be a shame if it was simply plopped on a dish, served to guests, and that’s it? Is that the best presentation possible for the glorious masterpiece? Not really. Do it some more justice. Turn it up a notch or two. Wow your guests that much more.
Here's a fantastic display system that will give you the most perfectly straight and sturdy cake.