6-tier Ivory Rose and Orchids Cascade Wedding Cake

I feel blessed to be invited and take part in my friends Azzy and Omar’s wedding. We had multiple discussions on the design of the cake that go with the theme and venue. This fresh flower cascade 6-tier wedding cake is the best idea we came up with. What a dramatic effect :-D

The wedding cake was displayed and put under a spotlight in the entrance of the stunning Eastington Park Manor House. It was decorated with white roses, spray roses, orchid, carnation and lisianthus. The flavour was vanilla madeira cake with vanilla buttercream.

I also made this trailing bouquet with the help of my floristry tutor Ayako for the bride with her favourite roses and orchids. I need to ask the photographer for a picture of the bride holding it, this was me doing a demo of the trailing length.

Here is the practice cake I prepared last week.

 On the day the flowers were wired arranged, and wrapped into small buttonholes.

Thank Azzy's friends and family for helping with logistics on the day!

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Every time I see Azzy and Omar  they are so happy. When I watch the two of them together, I know they are meant for one another. I was touched and emotional when I saw my two close friends getting married.

Wishing Azzy and Omar a happy married life with never ending journey of happiness, love and joy. Best wishes to my beloved friends and an amazing life ahead!

Tiered Cake with Fresh Flower

I probably mentioned before cake decorating and floristry are my biggest hobby, both of them together is my dream. A few weeks ago I took a 2 day course by Makiko Searle and Ayako Saida making sugar wisteria and arranging fresh flowers for a tiered cake.

We spent the first day icing the cake and making the sugar wisteria, it took quite a bit of effort making and turning a bunch of flowers into wisteria stems. Makiko said we will need to make hundreds to have a trailing effect and to cover all the cake tiers :-O

The second day was the exciting flower arrangement day! Ayako provided us a variety of fresh flowers - Roses, Statice, Carnation, Lisianthus, Hydrangea, Limonium and Veronica - they were all in stunning pastel colours :) Fresh flowers create the dramatic effect, but not all flowers are non-toxic and most of the time they are not in season, sugar flowers do not have these problems.

We were taught how to make a posy

which was used as the cake topper

Next we had to arrange the flowers into the oasis, I enjoyed this part the most :-D

This was the final outcome from the professional tutors, the top tier was the posy and a sugar wisteria, second tier was all sugar wisteria and the bottom tier was fresh flower arrangement. How gorgeous!

Ours were 2 tiers because of the time limit, this was my finished look : )

I took the cakes and flowers home, tried to add one more tier to make the whole cake look more like my tutors' one, I don't have the long dowels so I arranged the cakes as open-stacked under the second tier.

Also tried to put the posy on the second tier, the overall look looked so different. The whole cake + fresh flower arranging was too addictively enjoyable - I want to make another one now! :-D