In want of wedding ceremony cake concepts? We’ve bought just a few. The ceremonious confection has, in spite of everything, been a convention for millennia: its roots hint again to historical Rome, the place grooms would break a barley cake over their bride’s head to officialize their union. Hundreds of years later, Queen Victoria served a royal icing cake to her bridal occasion for her marriage to Prince Albert—the earliest precedent of the all-white type that’s nonetheless commonplace right this moment—whereas her son, Prince Leopold, is commonly credited with being the primary particular person to serve a totally edible tiered cake on his wedding ceremony day in 1882. (A {photograph} of the historic cake, which is on show in Kensington Palace, reveals it was adorned with putti figures holding bows and arrows.)

Quick ahead to the current day, and wedding ceremony truffles have develop into a extremely private matter of desire—and, as we’ve seen in Vogue’s wedding ceremony protection—typically even an artwork kind. Take Umber Ahmad s brutalist-inspired cake, or PJ Magerko-Liquorice and Jordan Millington-Liquorice’s ten-foot wedding ceremony cake that required sabers to chop. On the end result of their three-day St. Tropez extravaganza, Sarah Staudinger and Ari Emanuel lower an unlimited Tarte Tropézienne, whereas Babba Canales served a Swedish “princess cake” with a miniature 3-D print of the couple on prime.

Under, see a few of the finest (and most uncommon) wedding ceremony truffles revealed in Vogue—and maybe you’ll discover inspiration to your personal.