Angela and Terry got married in Dulwich in ’06, and this was their amazing wedding cake, made by a lady called Sharon Forbes.  Well over 2ft long and with seated figures about 5″ tall, as far as I know it was all edible apart from the champagne glasses and Angela’s veil.

Terry omitted to tell us about this, so it came as a surprise when we rocked up to the reception at The Law Society, which though really nice is not exactly the most brightly-lit venue in town.  We therefore had very little time to photograph it, and not a lot of light to play with either.  Come to think of it, that was probably the last time we could have done with the tripod, which was ten minutes’ walk away in the car boot, where it always is unless we know we’re going to need it with us.

What these shots can’t convey though is how “lifelike” the figures were.  Given that the cakemaker had only pictures of those 15 people and written descriptions of what they’d be wearing, it really was uncanny how it was immediately obvious who was who.  The lady in green on the left in the third shot is Terry’s mum, who was overheard during the meal saying that having seen the cake, she now understood why Terry was insistent that she shouldn’t change her mind on the morning of the wedding and wear her purple jacket …

That’s Josie and Stuart sitting on their cake earlier this year. They’re very much into baking cakes, growing veg, barbies – and sunflowers!

One of the enduring mysteries of wedding photography is how come the more interesting a wedding cake is, the more likely it is to be positioned in the worst possible place for photographs.

Be that as it may, here’s the cake from the last wedding featured below, with a few close-ups of the amazingly detailed topper made by the bride herself.

To give you some idea of scale, that rucksack is about an inch tall and the dog on the cake stand’s about the same size.

I forgot to make a note of who made Emma and Matt’s cake, but I can easily find out if you need to know.

It certainly doesn’t seem it, but according to the date on their cake it’s now two and a half years since Ruth and Johnny’s wedding, these pictures from which I’ve just come across whilst searching for some other files. Given that they’re both keen festival-goers and they met at Glastonbury, the theme for their reception at Coq d’Argent was pretty much inevitable …

at Teresa and Nick’s Penshurst Place wedding, but check out these amazing sugar flowers on it …

That’s Katherine and Keith’s wedding cake at The Spa Hotel in downtown Tunbridge Wells, and lurking in the background there is …

Keith’s cheese tower, English style.

I hadn’t realised that we haven’t had a wedding cake on here for ages, so here’s another!  We can’t remember who made this one but we can find out if anybody wants to know.

Cakes by the White Flower Cake Shoppe of Beachwood, Ohio.   Pictures copyright Karen Evans and used by kind permission. Check out Karen’s blog for yourself here