Fay's Process to designing your wedding cake
The timeline from booking through to delivery
Your Wedding Cake Journey Starts Here
Every cake begins with a conversation. Share a few details about your day and I’ll guide you through the possibilities, helping you find a design that feels just right.
Booking your preferred wedding suppliers
Once you’ve booked your venue, it’s the perfect time to start securing your preferred suppliers in advance, including your cake designer.
To give each couple the care and attention they deserve, I create just one wedding cake per week, occasionally two for simpler designs, depending on your wedding date and location. This ensures your cake is created with the highest level of detail and love. Short-notice bookings may sometimes be possible too, so please don’t hesitate to reach out.
My diary is now open for 2026 and 2027.
01. Enquire
Your bespoke wedding cake journey begins with a simple enquiry. Once you get in touch, I’ll check availability for your wedding date, venue, and guest numbers. Delivery costs will be confirmed at the time of your initial enquiry.
At this stage, we can also arrange a complimentary discovery video call if you’d like to talk things through in more detail before securing your date.
& Secure Your Date
If I’m available and you’d like to proceed, your wedding date can be secured with a £100 Save the Date booking fee.
There’s no need to have your cake design finalised at this stage, that comes later, once you have confirmed key elements for your day. Booking early simply gives you peace of mind that your date is reserved in my diary.
02. Wedding Cake Design & tasting Consultation
Once your date is secured, you’ll be invited to a wedding cake design consultation with a cake tasting, included as part of my bespoke service.
This is where your vision comes to life. Together, we’ll create a wedding cake that reflects your style, your story, and your celebration.
Before your consultation, I’ll send a short pre-meeting questionnaire and create a personalised wedding cake mood board to inspire your final design. Your consultation can take place:
In person, with a wedding cake tasting
Via video call, with a *cake tasting box delivered straight to your door
Or via email, if you prefer a more flexible approach
Together, we’ll refine every detail until your wedding cake feels completely you.
03. YOUR WEDDING CAKE DESIGN PROPOSAL
Following your bespoke design consultation, you’ll receive a detailed wedding cake design proposal, along with a hand-drawn bespoke design sketch (or sketches). We’ll refine the design together until everything is perfectly in place.
This is where your ideas and my design expertise come together, and your bespoke wedding cake truly begins to take shape.
04. Delivery & set up
My aim is to make the delivery and set-up of your wedding cake completely stress-free.
I personally deliver and set up your wedding cake on the morning of your wedding, working directly with your venue coordinator to ensure everything runs smoothly and to plan.
Your venue will be provided with my portion-cutting guide, full ingredient and allergen information, and a copy of my public liability insurance in advance of your wedding day.
All that’s left for you to do is relax and enjoy your celebration.
NO OBLIGATION –
VIRTUAL DESIGN appointment with TASTING box
If you’d like to explore your wedding cake design idea's before securing your date, you’re very welcome to begin with a virtual design consultation alongside a wedding cake tasting box to enjoy at home.
This gives us the chance to focus first on your vision, styling, inspiration, colours, and overall feel, while you sample a selection of flavours in your own time. We can chat via video call or email, whichever feels most comfortable.
There’s absolutely no obligation to book, it’s simply an opportunity to experience both the design process and the cakes, and see if I’m the right fit for your day.
I'd love to hear about your wedding plans
Enquiries are always welcome, even if you’re just at the early planning stage.
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