Your Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wedding - Dec/Jan 2019 (Issue 80)

66 Food stations have been a rising wedding trend in recent years, allowing couples to dispense with formal sit-down eating in favour of a more relaxed, social vibe. This has not been limited to the wedding breakfast, with cake and desert tables featuring prominently. The trend is likely to grow further in 2020, as couples plan receptions that are more relaxed but also budget-conscious. The options are endless for a stunning cake table and this can replace your traditional wedding breakfast dessert, allowing your guests to graze and help themselves. It's particularly popular with little people! Options include the enduring cupcake, as well as macarons, individual mini-cakes and meringues. These treats give you the opportunity to carry your theme through, using your palette of colours and dressing the table with props, family photographs, flowers and beautiful stands and tableware. And why not use a stunning backdrop, such as a flower wall, to give more prominence to your cake table and add drama? Informal eating The abundant and unstructured use of botanicals and greenery has been immensely popular this year and will continue. Couples could be choosing to use more living plants, foliage and unusual items such as tropical plants succulents. For cakes this will mean more clean white silhouettes with pops of green, lots of handmade sugar foliage and fresh greenery adorning cakes and cake tables. Often this style of cake incorporates the continuing trend for geometric and angular shapes, which is still so prevalent in everything from fashion to interior design. Geometric shapes can inform the shape of tiers or appear as gold or copper 3D shapes formed from sugar. Flower hexagons and hoops will continue to appear on cakes echoing their use in wedding floristry. Greenery and botanicals ozzyjamesphotography.co.uk ozzyjamesphotography.co.uk