Wedding Bells

After taking 6 hours to create this bride and groom I have a new appreciation for sugar craftsmen (and women) everywhere.

As much as I enjoyed the learning experience of making these iconic figurines, I do have to say I was starting to get a little impatient. Making the bride was a breeze, I seemed to manage okay and was happy with the finished product. However, making the groom was much more complex and the source of all my problems (read into that what you want). I actually had to start over because, to put it the nicest way possible, he was a sloppy mess. But in the end he scrubbed up not too badly.

This task is more about creativity than any specialized technique. Anyone who enjoyed playing with Plasticine or Play -do would thoroughly enjoy making these figurines. Be prepared to spend 5 or 6 hours to get things perfect – remember the finished product will sit on top of a very expensive wedding cake on a very special day. Yes they need to be outstanding. The equipment I used consisted mainly of a small rolling pin, a mini palette knife, mini flower plunger cutter and basic sugar craft modeling tools.

The hair was the most tedious part of the bride to make. Getting that long hair rolled out was hard enough, but curling it free form was near impossible. But in the end after many attempts those luscious locks would have been desirable for any bride! Funnily, the groom’s hair didn’t seem to matter that much, his style was much simpler to achieve (pretty much like real life).