This wedding dress isn’t made of tulle, chiffon or satin. It’s not even charmeuse, silk or crepe.
It’s Sweet In More Than One Way!
We’re going to go out on a limb when we say this dress is made of the best material of all: cake. Award-winning cake sculptor Sylvia Elba was asked to design the confection for Cake International, a cake decorating and baking show that takes place this month in London.
The goal of the project was to create something based on wafer paper; it was Elba’s idea to create the life-size dress, which is made entirely of fondant, cake lace and wafer paper.
She worked on the wedding dress cake — which weighs more than 150 pounds and stands at 5’5” — with Yvette Marner, founder of Fun N Funky Cakes, and cake designer Ilinka Rnic. It took the team over 300 hours to complete.
The designer of this “dress” is London-based cake sculptor Sylvia Elba.
That lace you see? All edible.
Sylvia Elba stands alongside the wedding dress cake
While the detailing may be similar to a traditional wedding cake, the shape and stature certainly aren’t.
The detailing on the cake resembles lace and fabric.
The confection, which is made of fondant, cake lace and wafer paper, took over 300 days to complete.
The attention to detail is incredible.
Cake designers Ilnka Rnic, age 17, Sylvia Elba, age 38, and Yvette Marner, age 43, created the life-sized confection.