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11 Wedding Cake Disasters

Wedding cakes can be elegant, beautiful works of art. Elaborate sculptures crafted from sponge and icing that are a wonderful sweet treat on your wedding day. They can also be disasters. Some wedding cakes started off great but succumb to the perils of modern life. Others were just doomed from the start. We take a look at 11 wedding cake disasters that are sure to make you chuckle, although spare a thought for the couples who were on the receiving end of these shockers.

1. No matter how pretty the cake; no cake boards = no chance.

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Image Courtesy of Daily Mail

2. No matter how good cake boards are however, they can’t protect against cornering too quickly.

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Image Courtesy of Stitch Fancy

3. A decorative disaster this time and a valuable lesson: Make sure you hire a good baker and not a poor plasterer to finish your cake.

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Image Courtesy of Easy Weddings

4. There’s nothing wrong with doing things a bit differently, but this might be a tier too far.

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Image Courtesy of Cake Wrecks

5. This cake started out alright, but then bad luck and bad transportation took over.

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6. This fairy-tale castle didn’t quite turn out right; that’s all we’re saying.

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Image Courtesy of Cake Wrecks

7. Things were going great, before the cake avalanche, that is.

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Image Courtesy of Rescake

8. We can only imagine that this luminous molehill wasn’t the intended outcome.

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Image Courtesy of Buzzfeed

9. This came so close to not being disastrous, so close.

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Image Courtesy of Booms Beat

10. This wedding cake disaster is proof that even alternative cakes can go horrendously wrong.

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Image Courtesy of Daily Mail

11. Finally, a sweet homage to an iconic Star Wars character…that’s just a little bit too detailed, especially when shot from behind!

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Image Courtesy of Slightly Warped

So there you have it. 11 wedding cake disasters to steer well clear from on your wedding day. For some much prettier cake inspiration, why not check out our article all about Drip Cakes and see how it should really be done!

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