Wedding Cupcakes

07/15/2011

Summertime means wedding time at Georgetown Cupcake! From May through August, we'll make cupcakes for 7-10 weddings each Saturday. We're also planning Katherine's September wedding right now and cupcakes, of course, will be the featured centerpiece of the reception. As we plan all these cupcake weddings, we wanted to share some cool ideas for incorporating cupcakes in your special day!

Cupcakes vs. a Wedding Cake
Sure, wedding cakes are more traditional, but beautifully stacked cupcakes can be just as elegant as a 5-tier wedding cake. We recommend sticking to white or ivory colored frosting for a more elegant look. If you are using fondant, try brushing it with an edible pearl luster dust or adding gold, silver, or pearl dragees for a more formal look. Coconut cupcakes and chocolate coconut cupcakes look especially elegant for wedding cupcake displays. The best part is, you can mix and match cupcake flavors easily and have a variety of flavors for your guests to choose from.

Also, you can work with your baker to come up with a beautiful monogram or symbol to stamp in fondant on top of each cupcake, to give it an extra personal touch. You can easily tie in your wedding colors to your cupcakes by adding fondant discs (with your monogram) in your wedding colors.  You can mix a little food color into your fondant to match the shade perfectly.  The best part -- cupcakes are often a less expensive alternative to traditional wedding cakes. So, if you are looking for areas to save or cut down on your budget, consider a beautiful wedding cupcake tower instead of a wedding cake. 

Mini Cupcakes as Part of Dessert Buffet
If you are planning on having a late-night dessert buffet at your wedding, mini cupcakes are the perfect addition. They are just the right size (only one or two bites) and look so elegant all lined up together on tiered platters as part of a larger dessert buffet. They are small enough so people can also try more than one dessert and not feel stuffed. We recommend mini red velvets and chocolate coconuts!

Cupcakes as Wedding Favors
Cupcakes also make wonderful wedding favors. They are the perfect, sweet, take-away gifts that everyone enjoys. You can personalize them in terms of flavor (the bride and groom's favorite flavor) and decoration (monograms) and gift-wrap them in individual boxes. 

At our bakery, we got so many requests for cupcakes as favors, we even expanded our box line for cupcakes as favors. We have single cupcake boxes, boxes that hold two cupcakes, side-by-side, and tiny boxes that hold 4 mini cupcakes. We use our signature pink boxes, but you can also purchase clear plastic single cupcake boxes at your local craft store, and these are cool because you can see the beautiful cupcakes inside. You can tie them up with ribbon to match your wedding colors and tie on a small card to each box with a special note for your guests, thanking them for coming or wishing them "Sweet Dreams" as they head home for the evening!

We’ll be sure to share photos from Katherine’s wedding — where there will be a TON of cupcakes — everywhere!!

Elegant wedding cupcakes taste delicious and look beautiful in photographs! (Image credit: Dayna Smith/ImageSmith)

Comments

[Leslie]

what beautiful and elegant wedding cupcakes! thanks for sharing and posting a picture!

[Sarah Wedding Creativo]

These are lovely! I could see having them already on the tables as part of the decor when guests arrive at the reception. Very cute.

[CassieS.]

Another idea for making cupcakes portable as favors is to place the cupcake in a small clear plastic party cup and wrapping in cellophane. Then tie it with a ribbon that corresponds with your wedding colors and sweet little tag.

[Monica]

I have wanted to use you all since the moment I got engaged! I think cupcakes are a great alternative to wedding cake. Not only are they less expensive, but I find at weddings the cake tends to get lost at the tables and never eaten once served. This way, people can serve themselves, or put one in a box for a late night snack!

[lauren prestwood]

My name is Lauren Prestwood,my husband and I are going to be having our 1 year anniversary May 6th 2012. I would like for you guys to make a special display for our wedding out of your cupcakes.

[Caroline]

I love Georgetown Cupcakes!

[MM]

Have you all ever thought of doing a show w/ foster/adoptive parents? We talk about that all the time.

[MM]

There are lots of families out there.

[ellen May Moody]

Email: ellensbookcase@yahoo.com September 14, 2011

Dear To whom it may concern,
Hello, First I would like to introduce my self my name is Ellen May Moody, I am author of children books and creator of Hairy The mop.
I am looking for someone who would like to partner with me to get Hairy The Mop into show biz..I realize that from my end I can do much...
I want to mix rap/ broadway music...I already have a hand full of songs..

I'm on face book..Ellen Hoffman Moody and Hairy The Mop Store is on Face book also...

A little about me…I'm a super honest and a christian. I'm 39 year old. I’m married to my husband Dan Moody of 18 yrs. mother of two teenagers of a boy Danny and a girl Cassiemarie Lynn..
My hobbies are: Writing, Printing, make things Helping others with their lives..
I love spending time with people in genral…
I have big dreams about my goals and my projects!
I been writing most of my life first it was poems, Then it became children stories. I do struggle from Dyslexia which makes my writing hard for me to do
2009 I published my first children book called “Hairy The Mop” Which I own all rights to and own the ISBN# and I been doing a couple of book sign at Libraries

My Goals is to get my life going. And to get the things I have work so hard for so long on out in to the world for everyone to see and enjoy Hairy the Mop. So my life can change into a flurishing flower. I dream big and everyday I work on something to do with project…My brain never shuts down

List of what I want to do and you being in an awesome partnership with me!
My mind is open all the way around and ready to work!!!!

1) Hairy The Mop is a puppet and a cartoon picture and book right now!
Necklaces made out of clay. I aready have 300 of them just have to put them on the chain or string and cords.
Siging songs already have hand full. I want to mix Broadway with rap music., along with jokes about Hairy
Sample one:
Hairy are you right handed or left handed. Hairy reply I'm no handed I go right and the pusher goes left. hahaha
I would T.V show and cartoons I want Him to be the next Sensation
h. I would like Hairy to have a clean supplies Things I have worked on!
I have 10 stories of Hairy the Mop
Three video’s on face book and You-Tube
Check out Hairy The Mop Store on face book.com
Under my profile Ellen Hoffman Moody pictures is Hairy The Mop 108 pictures of my book signings and South Lyon Depot Book signings and The thing is I realize that my dream are out of my hands and if I'm going to go any further I will need help ..

I also Have a mop Company on board with me and they send me their Mops that they actually make. to work with and they love my ideas!
That company totally support me in all that I do!
My dream is to go and see the mop guy and vistit his company
one day we could do this thing togethere.
Come on let work together..We will have fun and you will see how amazing Hairy The mop can be with the both of us making him show biz star...

Sincerely,
Ellen May Moody

[JANINE COLE]

LOVE THE WEDDING CUPCAKES

[ketzia s.]

I like the wedding cupcakes! :)

[engagement rings]

These look amazing. I love these cupcakes.

[Dianne]

I am making these "vanilla" cupcakes for my friends grandson. He loves vanilla. One of his classmates is gluten-free. So I used gf all purpose flower and added xanthan gum as stated on the flour package. Well to say the least they don't taste very good. Any suggestions?

[engagement rings]

Delicious wedding cupcakes! I wouldn't have thought about it, but cupcakes aren't a bad idea...hmm...