Fountain Wedding Cake

The wedding cake at any reception is always a show stealer but a fountain wedding cake has assumed such enormous proportions of importance that it may just be a good idea to stock up on some ideas. What is we have to put on a show at short notice? Are you prepared? Well I know I'm not so let us check out these ideas and make this article an interesting read for cake lovers everywhere.

More and more cake shops, at least high end ones are offering fountain wedding cake choices. The fountain is usually placed under tier one of the cake; you could be having two or even three tiers. Did you know some people have as many as five tiers, well there's a fine saying, a wedding is once in a lifetime so splurge!' Light up the fountain and you get the effect of light bouncing off water set of by lots of white creamy wedding cake - yummy! You could always arrange for some tastefully arranged colourful flowers around the base of the fountain. A mixed lot of colour roses arranged in a tight wreath would really look grand.

Now if you wanted to set the whole thing up yourself you could but do find out some clear instructions on how to set up, weddings days aren't meant for failure. You will have to select the fountain, a pump and some lighting. Call in an electrician to set the lighting for you so there won't be any mishaps. Set the lighting to run from the inside of the wedding cake and up to the fountain. Once you have set everything up for a trial run, take a picture and show that in the cake shop. They will be in a better position to advise you about the kind of cake that would throw out best.

You could have a fountain as the centrepiece and a few spiral cakes decorated around the fountain with lighting and flowers to throw off color and your fountain wedding cake masterpiece will make you proud.

If you are the bride to be go for broke, be as creative as you possibly can and pull out all the stops to make your fountain wedding cake the talked about topic for a long time to come. One bit of advise though, chocolate fountains are passé and very common in all the hotels. Don't forget to consider what the children will do to your masterpiece when they know it's chocolate.