When choosing a wedding
cake for your Hawaii wedding, start with budget
and decide what you're willing to spend. If you're
not sure whether your budget is realistic, call a
few bakeries on the specific Hawaiian island where
you've decided to marry and give them a basic description
of what you want so that they can give you a quote.
Of course, if you're using a Hawaii
wedding coordinator from Sweet Hawaii Wedding,
they can provide you with a lot of information, recommend
the best bakeries to use, and even arrange for all
the rest of the logistical details like delivery and
payment.
The next obvious factor is what type of cake to choose.
Particularly in Hawaii, that choice should be influenced
by where the cake will be cut and consumed. A cake
that spends anytime in the heat of outdoors (even
though under a canopy or umbrella) or in a strong
breeze, such as can be present during a Hawaii beach
wedding, must be "selected and built" to
withstand those environmental challenges. Portable
shoji screens can help shield a cake from anything
a breeze might carry (sand, leaves, etc.) and can
also be decorated in the wedding theme or colors or
even to match the cake.
Both bride and groom should enjoy whatever type of
cake is chosen, as it is the first food they consume
as man-and-wife. Therefore, as their first "wedded
meal," it is a symbol of how they will nourish
each other in many ways. It demonstrates how they
are entering into a cooperative relationship in which
harmony is achieved because the preferences of both
are accommodated, as much as possible. This is the
essence of the sweet 'aloha spirit' that is present
in the marriages consecrated on the islands of Hawaii.
In the next article, we'll look at the symbolism
of the filling and of flavors. See:
Choosing A Wedding Cake
For An Hawaiian Wedding Part 2 : Fillings, Flavors,
and Frostings
By Jacqueline Johnson
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