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Home › Recipes › Wedding Cake Trends 2018: The Collaboration

Updated on April 9, 2024 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Wedding Cake Trends 2018: The Collaboration

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Another really cool element we are seeing a lot in weddings is the bridal wreath! From bouquets, backdrops and even wedding altars. Brides are loving this circular decor, usually made with greenery and flowers.

To incorporate this theme into your wedding you can use a circular wreath for favors, large wreaths for backdrops or even a creative swing for taking photos. Check out some floral wreath inspiration on pinterest!

Emma Stewart of Truly Scrumptious Cakes By Design is an award winning wedding cake designer and is known for her flawless creations! She is always on top of the latest trends and definitely sees floral hoops as being HUGE in 2018

About this cake:

For the floral hoop theme I took inspiration from hoops that I have seen recently used for bridesmaids instead of traditional bouquets and also for wedding décor as hanging details. I choose to use more  vibrant colours in my flower selection. I arranged them around the base of the hoop and displayed it resting on a dark lustred cake, which I see being another trend in 2018.

 

Northern Ireland Wedding Photographer Sarah Bryden

Emma Stewart is a self-taught award winning cake artist from Omagh, Northern Ireland. She started Truly Scrumptious Cakes By Design 7years ago. She is widely recognised for her elegant, contemporary and flawlessly finished wedding cakes. Emma won Northern Ireland Best Wedding Cake award in 2016 and 2017. She runs classes in sugar flowers and wedding cakes throughout the UK & Ireland, including  The Cake Retreat an all inclusive cakers holiday.

Emma is the founder of The Grimm Obsession, a group of international award winning sugar artists who took Snow White to the dark side in a showpiece exhibit at Cake International 2017. Emma has been published in numerous magazines and blogs including Cake Masters Magazine, American Cake Decorating Magazine and Mr Bakers Blog.

bridal wreathe cake

See more of Emma's work

Website: https://www.tscakesbydesign.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trulyscrumptiouscakesbydesign/?ref=br_rs

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

Do you want to learn how to make your own floral wreath? Emma shows us how she makes hers!

Floral Wreath Tutorial

  • 8 x 22 gauge white wire
  • White floral tape
  • Rolkem Super Gold lustre dust
  • High percentage alcohol
  • Paint brush
  • Edible glaze spray
  • Flowers, foliage and berries
Arrange the wires into 4 pairs. Tape the full length of each pair so that they are joined end on to make 4 double length wires.
floral wreathe tutorial
Separate the long wires into two pairs. Then wind each pair together down the full length to give you 2 twisted wires.
Wind the 2 twisted wires together to make one thick twisted wire.
Bend the twisted wire to form a hoop. Reserve approximately 2 inches at each end with which to create the hoop insert. Bend the ends to point away from the hoop and twist together to form the insert.
Create an edible gold paint using the gold lustre dust and high percentage alcohol. Paint the hoop all over with the gold. Once dry spray with edible glaze to seal the gold lustre to prevent transfer onto your cake or flowers/foliage when adding.
Once hoop is dry begin taping on the foliage & berries from the outer edges of where you want your hoop arrangement to be. Work towards the insert, leaving space for a central arrangement.
Create the centre arrangement with you’re main flowers and leaves.
Once the hoop is positioned on your cake, insert the central arrangement so that is conceals the hoop support, so the hoop appears to be resting on the edge of the cake unaided.
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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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