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Beach weddings are easy to plan and their cost is quite reasonable. This favorable combination makes considering a seaside wedding a very good idea. Some cultures hold all their weddings on a beach. Whatever influences your decision, if you decide on a seaside ceremony, everything should match the setting’s elegance, including your beach cakes. Wedding pastry shops now offer a wide variety of options in addition to the traditional multi-tiered cakes served at most weddings. Your choices will include some exciting pastry sizes, shapes, colors and designs.

Below are a few tips to help you decide on the perfect pastries to serve at your celebration.

If you use a theme, you can complement it with the shape of the cake you choose. Seaside weddings are ideal for cakes in the shape of seashells, flowers, boats, lighthouses or palm trees.

Colors can also be important when you are planning a beach wedding. Brides often choose white or more subdued colors for their wedding cakes, but with a seaside wedding you might also want to include some generous touches of bright colors. If your wedding has a tropical theme, you could add tropical flowers on and around your cake to match it. If your theme is musical, you could complement the theme by having a skilled cake decorator sculpt icing into shapes such as musical notes or your favorite musical instrument.

Your budget will influence your options, but you may want to consider more exotic flavors for your cake and its frosting. Passion fruit, coconut, and kiwi, combined with mango butter cream or coconut cream frosting, are a few of the flavors that are perfect to serve on your wedding beach. If your budget won’t permit an unusually shaped cake, your guests will love it if you select a more standard shape but your cake features one of these more unusual flavors.

There are many different types of wedding pastries available, and unless you see an example it might be hard to picture the perfect design. You can stimulate your imagination by looking for wedding pastry pictures, both online and in magazines. The design you settle on might incorporate aspects of the best examples you find.

Here are some unusual options to help get you started:

Bem-casados: These pastries are a tradition at Brazilian weddings. Bem-casados are cake sandwiches made by putting sweet delicacies such as caramel sauce, jelly or egg custard between two small sponge cakes. Their sweetness symbolizes the sweet life the bride and groom will have together. Bem-casados are served at Brazilian wedding receptions instead of what other cultures think of as a traditional wedding cake. They come in a variety of playful shapes like hearts, rings and doves, but for beach cakes, wedding bem-casados can be shaped like boats, starfish, flowers or sand dollars.

Wanda Italian Bowtie Pastries: The wanda is a traditional Italian wedding pastry. These small, individual sized pastries are typically shaped as bowties. Wandas can be stacked on a plate to resemble a cake. In Italian wedding ceremonies, the bride and groom often begin a dance with the wedding guests joining in. The wedding party then dances toward the wanda plate where everyone chooses a pastry. The wanda is a fun and delicious wedding cake substitute.

Cupcakes: Rapidly becoming a popular alternative to traditional wedding cakes, cupcakes can create an impressive display when arranged on a multi-tiered cake plate. A wedding cake has only one flavor, but that is not the case with cupcakes. You can present several flavors and let your guests choose their favorite. It is also much easier to transport and set up cupcakes than a multi-tiered wedding cake. Wedding beach cupcakes could be decorated with palm trees, turtles, tropical fish or other things that blend with your theme.

Use your creativity when selecting beach cakes. Wedding pastries at your ceremony should mirror your style, taste and personality.

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