I met Tora & Richard for a consultation a few months ago to discuss their wedding cake. When I got there they said that they had intended to have a normal, traditional wedding cake but then changed their mind and hoped I wouldn’t be put off. Well I have to say, this is normally the point I get excited because as much as I love creating beautiful ‘normal’ wedding cakes (and I do) I also love making something a bit different and am a firm believer that couples should have what they want for their wedding not what is expected.

Tora and Richard own 2 local auction businesses and both have a particular love of all things Art Deco. Richard is also specially obsessed by old petrol pumps and globes. They showed me a photo of a dilapidated garage and forecourt with pumps and asked if I’d be able to represent it in cake as their wedding cake. My mind immediately went into overdrive and it didn’t take long for me to say yes, yes I could, I just need to work out how!

Tora & Richard got married at The Guildhall in Bath and had their wedding reception at home and I had the unenviable task of delivering the cake directly to Richard. Transporting wedding cakes is a daunting task at the best of time but those pumps had so much detail on that I was a nervous wreck! Luckily there was only one easily fixed casualty. The other reason I was nervous was that Richard was going to be the first to see the cake and as an expert he has the right to be critical! Luckily he loved it and actually said it was better than they imagined it could be. Relieved? You betcha! The following day Tora wrote this on my timeline…

One word: AWESOME

I feel so lucky to have been part of Tora & Richard’s wedding and to have been trusted to make their cake. I absolutely loved it, nerve racking? Yes, but worth it.

Congratulations to Tora & Richard xx