Steampunk Wedding Cake

Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Jake Von Slatt features a beautiful Steampunk cake made by Karen Collins at Baby Cakes, Massachussetts. This cake was Karen's first foray into steampunk culture and I think she did quite well indeed!

Gothic Weddings: Tacky?

Tacky Weddings posted an assortment of gothic wedding pictures for your interest. Now, I am not, by nature, a fan of this blog, because I think tacky is totally what you make it and as long as people are happy and aren't hurting anybody than they can do whatever they want at their own wedding.

However, I ADORE some of these pictures. If that's tacky, then call me tacky McTackster. Granted, there are a few...interesting ones, but hey, each to their own.

So, for inspiration, I give you other people's idea of a tacky wedding:




I also hate hate HATE when people say 'but what will they think in ten or twenty years time when they look back at their wedding photos?' I mean, what? Look at how happy everyone is! Even if these people aren't goths when they're sixty, surely they'll look back and say 'Man, look at that awesome fun wedding we had and how happy everyone was. I'm so glad we did that!'

I just think it's horrible to call someone else's wedding tacky. Sure, you can think it's tacky, but it is NOT anyone's place to pass judgement on anyone else's wedding, or clothing, or home, or lifestyle. People are different, and that's what makes the world so awesomely COOL. One couple's beautiful ivory 3-tier wedding cake with a periwinkle blue ribbon to match the bridesmaid's dresses is another persons black and red chocolate cupcake tower decorated with skulls and swords to match the groom's tattoos.

Grrrrr. The word tacky. I hates it.

DIY Halloween Wedding Cake Supplies

Black Skull cupcake cases, £1.50, from Make a Wish Cake Shop.

If your DIYing your gothic or Halloween wedding cake, take a look at the supplies available from Make a Wish Cake Shop in the UK. Even with the exchange rate the prices are pretty reasonable, and they've got a whole section on Halloween-themed cake decorating goodies.

Apart from the gorgeous skull cupcake cases above, they've got black, orange, purple, red, and metallic patty cases; pumpkin, ghost and cat sprinkles, red, orange, purple and hologramic edible glitters; and - my favourite - skeleton cupcake pricks to pop out of your cupcakes!

Cupcake towers are totally 'in' at weddings, and CDH fell in love with the idea the first time he saw one. These cute skully additions don't cost any more than normal cake decorating supplies, and they'll look so awesome all made up at your spooky reception. I kninda wish we'd seen the skully cupcake cases. *sadface*

And while we're on the topic of cupcake decoration, don't forget to pop over to Creepy Cupcakes awesome blog for heaps of culinary inspiration. She's planning her own Halloween Wedding this year, so she's full of dark and fun inspiration.

CakeWreck's Halloween Special

Every so often, CakeWrecks post some wonderful delights (as a change from their usual sugary disasters). Check out this post on Halloween Wedding Cakes - I love these ghosty cupcakes!