Elopement cakes of 2023
We have so many fab elopement weddings here at Ever After, it’s impossible to pick a favourite. So yeah, you’re not going to get me doing that.
But I thought New Year and all that, I could do a look back at some of the elopement cakes of 2023 – a kind of highlights post. I can do that.
I’m going to do a separate post about wedding cakes with just fresh flowers as we do a ton of those every year. You might think you know what a cake with fresh flowers is going to look like. But ours all look very different. Very connected with that particular wedding. But that’s for another post so keep an eye out for that.
Unusual elopement cakes of 2023
Let’s dive in to the more unusual elopement cakes of 2023.
I say ‘we’ but actually they’re all created by Harrie of Boo To A Goose. She’s been our elopement cake maker since we started our elopement weddings back in 2016.
Upside down cake
Well not strictly upside down but a variation. Kinda on its side cake.
This couple wanted something simple but different. Ok, got that. Harrie took a slice off the bottom of this double chocolate sponge with buttercream icing and decorated it with fresh flowers.
Add colour
This strawberry and cream Victoria sponge cake was iced with lilac marbling and finished with fresh flowers.
Such a pretty look for a March wedding.
A more intense icing colour was the choice of Lorenzo and Louie in their dark green and darker green drip on their 2 tier cake, one layer lemon drizzle and the other layer chocolate sponge. Ferns, ivy and dried bracken tied in with their woodland feel.
If you’re talking dark, there’s nothing darker than black, right? How about this then for Jade & Aidan’s wedding where their colours were all black and blush. Black icing. Elegantly different.
Black not your thing? How about the opposite with baby blue, peach and primrose yellow in painterly daubs with fresh flowers?
Piped wedding cake
2023 saw a huge revival of piped cakes for weddings. Not the old school hard as nails royal piping but buttercream piping, they’ve become known as vintage or kitsch piped cakes and we had this beauty created by Harrie for Saffron & Aaron’s wedding back in September.
They got married on the HOTTEST day of the year so their cake did spend most of its day in the fridge as buttercream is really not heat friendly (understatement). So the cake made an appearance for photos and then had to hide away until the sun went down in the early evening.
This cake was piped in natural buttercream but single colour or multi colour piped buttercream cakes are definitely a thing now. You can read more about them over on this blog post by One Fab Day.
I really hope we see more of these in 2024, they’re so cute.
Statement cakes
Now on to the last couple of cakes in this round up.
First there was Courtney and Guy’s cake from their elopement here last April. This is what’s known as a ‘free reign cake’. When I see that in the spreadsheet where we as an elopement team share supplier info about our weddings, I know we’re in for a treat.
It means the couple have given Harrie free reign to create whatever cake she wants. They wanted it to go with their colours of sage, grey and white and this is what she came up with. I know right?
And the final statement cake of 2023 is this beauty from Annaliese and Matt’s April 2023 wedding.
They asked for a two tier carrot cake as although they had no guests, they wanted to take cake away for family and friends. They asked for touches of blue and gold and definitely no fresh flowers on the cake. They made a request for Harrie’s legendary hand made macarons which along with the hand made gold edged rice paper sails, ended in this wondrous creation. Let’s take a moment shall we?
If you want to see more of Harrie’s macarons on one of our previous elopement weddings, you gotta read this blog post which tells you all about this spectacular, pink ombre macaron wedding cake. Now that is a macaron cake.
That’s our run through some of the more unusual elopement cakes of 2023.
I’ll be back soon with some other 2023 wedding rounds ups so pop back in for those.
In the meantime if you’ve got any cake questions, let me know, I love wedding cake talk. You’ll reach me at [email protected]
You’ll find a cake for each wedding on our real elopement gallery
You can download our new 2024/25 elopement brochure which has more cake pics right here.
Credits:
All photos: Clare Kinchin Photography
All cakes: Boo To A Goose
Flowers: Moss & Mushrooms
All decor and styling: Ever After
