Cupcake Wedding Cake Guide

The DIY cupcake wedding cake can save you a lot of money and are quite easy to do.

You can make a beautiful wedding cupcake tower with little or no cake decorating experience.

If you make a mistake on some it will not affect the overall look of your wedding cupcake display.

You will be saving money on the cake cutting fee by bringing your own wedding cupcakes to the reception venue.

You can offer a variety of flavors to your guests.

You can make a small cupcake wedding cake display for the centers of your guest tables and save money on the wedding table flower arrangements.

A wedding cupcake tower can consist of one or more different designs on the cupcakes, displayed on stacked cake boards. Even the simplest design can be enhanced by using votives, fresh or silk flowers or tulle carefully place alongside the cupcakes on each tier.

You will need to plan in advance the design and how you will decorate your wedding cupcake stand.

Making Wedding Cupcake Stands

To serve 150 - 200 people you will need two wedding cupcake stands. For each of the stands create a four tier stand. Start with 40cm (16 inch) board then 30cm (12 inch), 22cm (9 inch), and for the top a 15cm (6 inch) board.

You can purchase round or square boards or if you prefer a different shape you can cut these to shape using large pieces of foamcore.

Cover each of the boards with a thick foil paper. The edge of each of the boards should be trimmed neatly and cover the edges with a ribbon to match your color theme.

To separate each of the tiers you can use almost anything.

You can purchase clear vases which are strong and wide enough to support each tier, fill these with decorative stone, seashells or flower petals.

You could use sturdy flower pots and paint them in a color to match your theme.

Before the wedding check that you cupcake stand is strong enough to avoid any mishaps on the day.

You can offer more than one cake flavor to your guests by placing each flavor on its own wedding cake stand.

Let you guests know the cake flavor by placing a sign in front of each cupcake stand.

If you don't want a large wedding cake tower you can always place the remaining cupcakes on the cake table around the stand.

Save yourself some money by decorating your own wedding cupcakes. For ideas on how you can decorate your wedding cupcakes see our page on Decorating Wedding Cupcakes.