Wedding Cakes & Desserts Ideas

Expert wedding planning tips & inspiration

Inside Weddings shares the latest wedding trends and ideas for your wedding cake, groom’s cake, dessert table, late-night sweets, and more!

Cakes & Desserts

21 Nearly Guilt-Free Treats to Serve at Your Wedding

Keep your New Year's resolution to eat healthier and offer guests these semi-healthy treats.

While these desserts certainly are not entirely guilt-free, it is possible to make healthier versions of all of these sweet treats, which provide guests with a taste of sugary sweetness without overwhelming their palates.


Cakes & Desserts

It's National Donut Day! 20 Ways to Serve Donuts at Your Wedding

See one of the biggest trends for dessert at your reception!

Though largely viewed as a simple confection, there are a variety of ways donuts can be offered and displayed at a wedding.


Cakes & Desserts

Your Guide to Saving the Top Tier of Your Wedding Cake

Will you keep it for your first anniversary?

Eating the top tier of your wedding cake on your first anniversary is an old and classic tradition. But is it safe? Will the dessert even still taste good?


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17 Small Wedding Cakes with Seriously Stunning Style

Be inspired by these petite wedding cake ideas featuring two to three tiers!

Wedding cakes that are beautiful, yet also simple and stylish, are perfect for couples hosting more intimate gatherings, or those that just don't like cake.


Cakes & Desserts

Creative Wedding Cake Designs to Inspire Your Confection

Be inspired to add artful details including sugar flowers, watercolor, and wafer paper!

It wasn't so long ago that all wedding cakes nearly looked the same – elegant white confections with various amounts of tiers and adornments; however, nowadays more and more couples are choosing to make their wedding cake part of the décor.


Cakes & Desserts

Happy Pi Day! Be Inspired to Include Pies in Your Wedding

View inspiring ways to add pies to your wedding reception dessert table.

Be inspired by the different ways pie was served at real weddings and styled shoots!


Cakes & Desserts

20 Ways to Decorate Your Wedding Cake with Fresh Flowers

While sugar flowers are impressive, fresh blooms provide a garden-like feel for your nuptials.

Take a look at 20 different cakes to find inspiration when designing the cake of your dreams.


Cakes & Desserts

How to Pick What Kind of Wedding Cake to Have

The design matters almost as much as the flavors!

When it comes to choosing a design you love, there’s a lot more to consider.


Cakes & Desserts

Should You Have a Groom’s Cake at Your Wedding?

How to decide if an extra confection is the right choice.

If you and your fiancé have not yet decided on including a groom’s cake, consider the following.


Cakes & Desserts

Celebrate Wedding Season Tonight with Celebrity Cake Shows

Watch newlyweds Drew Scott & Linda Pham, as well as Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, on Food Network.

Follow along as the couple attempts to blend their different needs and tastes on Wedding Cake Countdown with Drew and Linda, all while getting a behind-the-scenes look at the celebrity couple's beautiful destination wedding in Italy.


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Key Elements to Designing the Wedding of Your Dreams

Expert wedding consultant Linda Howard shares her advice for creating a fairy-tale wedding event.

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Wedding Planners vs. Wedding Designers: What's the Difference?

Talented wedding event designer Joe Mineo of Joe Mineo Creative shares his insight on the difference between the two roles.


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