THE ROYAL BRIDE-CAKE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1947, 24 September 1889, Page 4

THE ROYAL BRIDE-CAKE.

The wedding cake prepared in connection with the recent royal marriage was as magnificent an edifice of sugar modelling and fretwork as ever cast the gloom ef indigestion over the sunshine of nuptial festivity. It was a tall slender structure, Sift in height, resting on a circular pedestal in diameter. It weighed ISOlbs, and was all in white sugar and delicate white flowers, with only a few touches of deep color in the small cardinal velvet and gold coronets that faced the four panels on which were worked the monogrsms. It came from Gunter’s, the famous old house in Berkeley square, which has made all the wedding cakes for all the royal and aristocratic marriages since the Queen was married fifty years ago. The cake proper was 4in or Sin above the pedestal, and was a bulky cylinder, 14in in height and 80in in circumference. It had all the expensive ingredients, from citron to raisins, which are supposed to add joy to the wedding i scene. ;It had four panels, two of them bearing the monogram “ L.D.W.” (Louise Dagqaar of Wales), and “A. G.F.” (Alexander George of Eife). Above each was the red and gold coronet. Between the panels the three feathers of the Prince of Wales were, embossed, and each panel was very tastefully bedded and partly framed in delicate white arum lilies, white rosebuds, white orange blossoms, and small white convolvuli. Above the cake was a Greek temple, resting on eight white columns, and the dome, which rises in diminishing tiers, supported a white classical, on whose head was a vase, from which, bloomed a crown of white flowers, which surmounted the whole. Four delicate pendants fell from this, reaching nearly to the base; They were composed of single flowers with joined stems. One was of snow-white rosebuds and tiny sprigs of heather. Another was of orange buds and blossoms. The third was of small lilac sprays, and the fourth of small convolvuli and heather. The Scotch thistle, represented by half a dozen specimens, formed the base of the flower crown, and partly wreathed the figure.