What is a Luxury Wedding?
Google describe it as -
“A high-end, extravagant celebration where every detail is meticulously planned and executed to create an immersive, unforgettable experience for the couple and their guests, often involving top-tier vendors, stunning venues, personalized services, and an emphasis on refined elegance and exclusivity, going above and beyond a traditional wedding experience; essentially, it's a celebration where no detail is overlooked and the focus is on creating a truly luxurious and customized event for all attendees”
Susie Evans - Luxury Wedding Planner
What is a “Luxury Wedding”
Luxury weddings focus on providing an exceptional experience. While all weddings entail significant financial investment, the emphasis for a luxury wedding lies on crafting a sophisticated and exclusive event. These occasions are often showcasing both the opulence and glamour of the professionals involved in the different elements of the day as well as those of the exclusive venues. The couple benefits from personalized service throughout the entire process, while guests enjoy a bespoke and highly elegant event that remains memorable. Each detail of a luxury wedding is meticulously planned and flawlessly executed. Unfortunately, when budgets are tight the cake sadly falls low down on a couples list and that element of a showstopper cake is sadly lost.
Traditional and luxurious weddings do create an experience that will be treasured for the rest of one’s life. A simple search shows that “luxury” has become a buzzword in recent years, as evidenced by vendors using it as a marketing hook but without the understanding of what it actually means.
Traditional Weddings
On average a traditional UK wedding for about 100 people costs between £10k - £20k. Traditional weddings are still stunning and will have all the usual elements of ceremony, reception, photographer, flowers, cake, decorations and all the other finishing touches such as favours and invitations with many aspects being handled professionally, however there is a growing trend for some of these elements to be done “in-house” by members of the wedding party. . Traditional weddings will have a wow factor and will have an elegance, but they don’t quite have the level of flamboyance of a luxury wedding, and the focus of attention to detail isn’t on the scale as with a luxury event.
Luxury Wedding:
Luxury weddings usually cost substantially more than a traditional one with10% costing over £1 million!! Luxury weddings tend to be conceptually different to that of a traditional wedding and will have the budget to match. The experience is tailored to the couple’s style. Luxury weddings include all the things traditional weddings do and more, such as multi-venue celebrations, lighting, multiple live music provision, fireworks, fairground attractions, outfit changes, and other surprises planned out to add to the uniqueness of the event. With luxury weddings, the couple will tend to leave the interpretation of their requirements to their planner who takes care of everything. Couples who are planning a luxury wedding want the best of the best in every aspect of their big day including their cake.
Luxury weddings focus on providing an exceptional experience. While they entail significant financial investment, the emphasis lies on crafting a sophisticated and exclusive event. These occasions are often worthy of feature in prestigious magazines, showcasing both opulence and glamour. The couple benefits from personalized service throughout the entire process, while guests enjoy a bespoke and highly elegant affair that remains memorable. Each detail of a luxury wedding is meticulously planned and flawlessly executed.
What Defines a Luxury Wedding Cake?
So how does this translate into cake? In its simplest form incredible ingredients, exquisite lines, handmade, and detailed innovative one-of-a-kind creations.
Edible Artistry!!
Let’s break that down.
• Exceptional Ingredients
A Luxury Cake Maker will source incredible ingredients, the finest chocolate and the highest grade of basic elements as possible. From homemade jams and curds to butters and creams.
• Exquisite details:
Your cake maker will take every element of your vision and hand make every flower, leaf and adornment with precision, detail, care and time. Perfect Sugar Flowers
• Personalized Experience:
Tailored to the couple's unique style and preferences, the couple need to feel as if they are the only people tying the knot in the world and that their centrepiece will be like no other.
Luxury weddings typically involve a larger budget compared to a traditional wedding due to the considerations mentioned previously and it is therefore logical to expect that a luxury wedding cake will be a significant element of that budget. Each cake is individual and therefore each cost is individual.
Treating not only yourselves but also your guests to a luxury taste experience is worth that indulgence.
JR - Planned for Perfection