You are going to laugh, but one of the things I love about wedding photography is finding the cake and taking some photos of it.

Visually I love wedding cakes because they are always so different. Prior to each wedding reception, I make a point of entering the reception area and finding the cake for some photos.

I love the moment when I come around a corner and discover the cake. It's a ha-HA moment, that reveals to me a little bit of the personality of the bride and groom.

Bride and groom icons on the cakes are nearly always different and are pretty cool. Then there are the knives supplied to cut the cakes - some are like swords out of the Middle Ages.

While I have always photographed the wedding cake by itself, I make a point these days to take a straight on vertical photo of the wedding cake at every wedding I do.

Why?

They look great paired with another detail photograph in a wedding book.

Some other quirky things I realised while pulling a few wedding cake photos from my image archive for this post:

...I've never eaten a single slice of wedding cake at any of the weddings I've photographed.

...I've photographed a number of weddings that didn't actually have a wedding cake.

...(Thankfully) I've never seen a wedding cake get accidentally knocked over at a wedding.

Long live the wedding cake in all its glory.