Wedding Cake Trends (2018) A Cake Collaboration

Cake Trend: Nature Inspired

We cannot BEE-lieve how much brides are loving honeycombs, bees, pretty florals and pastels this year. We're seeing them pop up on everything from invitations to cakes.

You don't have to go full on bee-hive to incorporate these lovely natural details into your wedding. Hexagons are super trendy right now and can easily be incorporated as a modern touch and a subtle nod to this natural beauty.

Sara Weber of Sara's Sweets created this gorgeous cake using a variety of amazing techniques like gumpaste sugar magnolias, hand-painted flowers, honeycomb bas relief and a beautiful crackled fondant texture.

Sara is an award-winning cake decorator in Austin, TX and is well-known for her high attention to detail in wedding cakes, sculpted cakes and cookies! Girl can do it all!

About this cake:

"Nature is Timeless

In a way, natural elements are always "on trend" for weddings- florals, fresh produce, greenery are often center stage for any wedding. 2018 brings a fresh take on "nature" as the Japanese philosophy of "wabi-sabi" ~ finding beauty in imperfection ~ has been gaining popularity in the design industry, and will start to have a big impact on weddings. According to Kylie Carlson, CEO of the International Wedding Academy for Wedding and Event Planning and author of the trend report "the space should have a timeworn interior with emotional charm and peeling, decaying textures. A muted, subdued palette of tonal rustic neutral hues will set the mood nicely."

The inherent imperfection of weathered wood along with the muted pinks, greens and browns of the Chinese magnolia pair perfectly with the off-white leafs, flowers and filigree of the textured bas relief. Bringing in bees and gold accents adds a whimsical and meaningful sentiment to this naturally beautiful cake."

Sara Weber is an award winning cake artist who has been baking since age 10 when her parents ran a small town family bakery. With an undergraduate degree in studio art and ceramics, Sara discovered that she could apply her creative practice to sugar and put herself through graduate school working in bakeries.

After launching her career as a psychotherapist, Sara missed the creative world of baking and decorating so she renewed her passion in sugar art in 2014. With so many new and exciting sugar art mediums available, Sara was instantly smitten with cake sculpting, painting and advanced techniques. Sara enjoys combining diverse design elements into elaborate sugar pieces with vibrant color, complex structure and rich texture. Sara loves to teach and is passionate about helping other artists succeed.