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Home › Free Tutorials › Wedding Cake Trends 2018: The Collaboration

Updated on October 1, 2026 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Wedding Cake Trends 2018: The Collaboration

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Cake Trend: Industrial Modern

Light and airy with a little rough and tough. Industrial chic incorporates the smooth (copper), the natural (greenery) and the rough (stone). Brides have loved metallics for a long time now but bronze and copper is hitting the scene hard!

To incorporate this trend in your wedding don't forget to mix up the sweet with the textural. This balance of rough and shiny is what makes this trend so interesting. Keep your colors to neutrals with pops of metallic.

Shannon Mayes of Sweet Art Cake Company is known for her creative wedding cakes and she does not disappoint with her rendition of this beautiful copper themed cake!

copper wedding cake

We love the look of the beautiful hammered copper peaking out from behind that crackled fondant! And the sugar flowers are so pretty!

About this cake:

"The trend I chose was copper. I have always loved the color and have not yet had a chance to do a cake with it! I knew with it being a metallic color I wanted to incorporate it through a texture to really show the beauty. I particularly like the look of hammered metal and decided to go with that. I couldn't decide between doing a black cake or a white cake to compliment the copper color and ultimately decided to use both colors and carry the copper throughout each element."

 

Shannon Mayes is an award winning cake artist, the owner of SweetArt Cake Company and is now the host of the YouTube channel The Sweet Spot.

She has been featured in several magazines including on the cover of Cake Masters. She is a teacher, UNSA administrator and a contributor and writer for The Sugar Geek Show.

See more of Shannon's work

Website: https://www.sweetartcakecompany.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SweetArtCakeCompany/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sweetartcakecompany/

Youtube Channel: The Sweet Spot

Do you want to learn how to make this gorgeous copper effect? Shannon teaches us how!

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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