The goal of any good cake artist is to help you express yourself and continue the overall presentation theme of the reception through the design of your cake. If you find that the artist is not listening or has an agenda of their own, try someone else until you feel comfortable and heard.

The season in which you are getting married, the venue where your reception will be hosted and the time of day that your reception commences may affect the cake you ultimately want to display. An elegant, evening reception in the fall will probably have a different looking cake than a simple summer wedding held outdoors.

When you arrive at your appointment bring everything that you can come up with to express what you want your wedding cake to look like. Even just ideas about the feeling you want to create at your reception can help guide an artist toward a design for you. You can bring swatches of fabric from the bridesmaid’s dresses, pictures from magazines, your invitations and other reception items you have collected so far.

Having an idea about your bouquet, the flowers for the boutonnierés or what kind of flowers you and your fiancé really like will help coordinate your wedding cake to the environment that will be around it. Perusing your florist’s idea books and asking about the availability of flowers for the season of your wedding will also help to push you in a direction of theme. If you go on the Internet and use www.images.google.com to look up wedding cakes you will be able to save and print cakes that inspire you.

Finally, remember to bring all of your contact information for:

1) your florist
2) your wedding coordinator
3) your venue’s event manager

It’s also a very good idea to bring your cheque book to your appointment. If you decide to book your wedding cake, you will probably be asked to put down a deposit and leave a post dated cheque for the balance owed dated one week before your wedding, that’s the way I do it.

Good luck in finding that perfect wedding cake!

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Authored by Jennifer McLean from Jennifer McLean Cakes

If you are planning a reception or destination wedding in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, please contact Jennifer to make an appointment. Her website and email are www.jennifermcleancakes.com and jennifer@jennifermcleancakes.com

Jennifer has owned her own designer wedding cake business, Jennifer McLean Cakes, for 6 years. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Victoria, Jennifer decided to explore her artistic side and find an outlet for her creativity. Throughout her life Jennifer enjoyed learning arts and crafts but had always done so as a hobby. When she discovered sugar paste and creating hand made flowers, she finally found a niche that utilized her skills in painting and creativity. Jennifer is fully self taught in the art of sugar flower making and enjoys learning from every new book and new flower idea.

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