Are wedding cupcakes "over?"

Cupcake wedding cake tower by Blue Cupcake via Flickr

Just as I've been getting excited that it's almost "wedding season" and dreaming up wedding cupcake posts, over in England, The Guardian is raining on our cupcake parade and insisting that wedding cupcakes are over:

Forget the perfect dress, the sacred vows, the spiritual or romantic venue. It seems the only thing that matters these days is the cake. The current craze for wedding cupcakes supports this theory.

But can you have your cupcake, and cut the cake too? The answer has got to be a resounding no. If you're going for the cupcake tower at your wedding, don't think you can have it both ways by topping it with a conventional warhead of marzipan-over-fruitcake for the knife-plunging moment.

Nope, if you go for cupcakes, you have opted out of the cutting of the cake. This is a rule that must not be broken. If you do, then you cannot legitimately say you had a cupcake wedding. In fact, your marriage will be annulled.

Don't even think about a single giant-sized cupcake on top either - you want to be able to look at those photos in five years' time without sobbing "what were we THINKING!" into your hands. The only proper way is a small cupcake cluster on the top tier, and for the photo call you'll just have to settle for the old feed-each-other-some-cake manoeuvre.

What do you think?

Obviously, we disagree, and have posted many examples of wedding cupcakes over the years that are elegant, classy, and beautiful - oh, and have shown that you can combine a cake and wedding cake. We'll be following up on this topic so if you had cupcakes at your wedding or your friends did or you made some for someone's wedding, send us your photos for a future roundup post. cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com