Zebra/Tuxedo Wedding Cake

The bride (whom I’ve known for 20 years) emailed me to see if i could make her wedding cake…i was nervous and had no idea how i was going to achieve the look she wanted! Zebra stripes plus a tuxedo!?!
i was thinking of ways of how i can do the stripes-stencils with buttercream/royal icing? hand painting on the cake with gel colours? or fondant it..i chose for the latter. Then i had to think of ways to tie in the two..Half and half was the only way.

So now the cake flavour! This cake was huge! Banana cake with chocolate ganache filling-YUMMO
Every detail is edible-Bow tie, Black rose, gems on the buttons.
Every zebra stripe was cut by hand..took forever but was well worth the time spent.
This was my very 1st wedding cake! the bride was extremely happy=happy caker!