Wedding Cupcakes – An Alternative Inspiration

Submitted by Bride.ca, Canada’s number 1 resource wedding website.

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Cupcakes are small, cute, tasty, and remind us of fun birthday parties spent with our friends on warm summer days when we were ten. When we think of cupcakes, we think of children, laughter, and someone singing Happy Birthday. We rarely think of weddings and cupcakes in the same sentence, let alone, in the same word. But, all that is changing and changing fast. Cupcakes are the latest and greatest thing in the wedding pastry world. They are trendy, exciting and are making waves as one of the hottest wedding ideas around. Why you ask? Well, wedding cupcakes are popular for many reasons really, for example:

• They are economical; OK, this is just a fancy way of saying that they are cheap. Cupcakes cost a lot less to make than traditional wedding cakes and in economically challenged times such as the ones we currently face, that is a GOOD thing!
• They are easy. No one has to make special arrangements (and pay extra) to have anything cut and served. Cupcakes are ready to go. You don’t even need a plate.
• Not needing a plate takes us to our next point. They work for outdoor weddings but are just as easily brought indoors for off season, or more formal events. They are versatile. Dress them up or take the out, they work for any style wedding!
• They are multi-tasking! They, add a little something extra to your décor. Simply plan to have the cake table in a very focal spot. Arrange and decorate your cupcakes in such a way that captivates guests as they gaze upon them during dinner and the speeches. They also make excellent table décor. If you’re short on cash, you can forgo the cake table completely and just arrange the cupcakes on the guest tables as centerpieces. You’ve just eliminated the need for a cake table and centerpieces!
• They are unique. As popular as they are becoming, wedding cupcakes still are not as mainstream as the traditional wedding cake. Break from the old and try something many guests may not have seen at other weddings.
• They are not fussy. A traditional wedding cake comes with certain limitations in its flexibility. Mainly because of its size and shape, the wedding cake is fussy. It must have its own table, for one, plus it requires attention possibly even requiring more than one person to move it from the cake table to the cutting and serving area, whereas cupcakes take care of themselves. You can place them wherever you like, arrange them in any order, and have guests pick them up with little or no assistance from any other person.

Whether you are a cupcake fan or not, you will see more and more of this dessert in the months and years to come as brides everywhere begin to realize that they have options when considering what to serve as their wedding cake. Just as the traditional wedding fruitcake was replaced by fancier and possibly tastier options, cupcakes will eventually reshape the way we all see the traditional wedding cake.

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