I have a couple of questions for anyone who has done a wedding cake with the vows (or Bible verses, etc) written on the sides of the cakes.
1) Do you mark lines on the cakes at all to keep your handwriting straight/level?
2) If yes, what do you use to mark the lines?
3) Do you do the writing on each cake, then assemble? Or assemble then write?
I just love these cakes! Thanks for your help!

Happy Baking,
Beth

I've done the vows cake a couple of times.

I do not mark a line for my writing. I do three lines of verses around each cake and just try to eyeball it to keep my writing even. If it gets off a little bit it just adds to the handwritten charm.

Since I do not travel with stacked cakes I do the writing on the tiers before they are assembled and then stack on site. But even if you weren't traveling with this I think it would be easier to write on them before they are put together because it's difficult to keep your hand steady when writing on the top tier.

HTH

I've done 3 now.

The first time I used a stencil and coloured powder to make the letters. I put each cake flat on my work suface and the bottom of the stencil rested on my work surface. (They were clear stencils, so it was easy to see where my next letter should go.)

The next times, I just did free hand writing. I rested my cake on the work surface and measured my line all around the cake with tiny pin pricks every 4 inches or so. They were invisible.

I also don't travel with cakes already assembled, so I didn't get a look at the final effect until we got to the venue to set up!

Thank you for your reply Wendy! I'm going to try to do up a dummy cake like this to take pics to a new 'one-stop-wedding-shop' in town. I appreciate the tips!

I had a bride bring me a picture of a cake that looked like the writing was done w/ a stamp and then filled in w/colored icing. Are there stamps you can use to do this? I called the bakery, but the person that answered was too busy to answer my question soo does anyone know? Maybe it was done w/a stencil. Thanks in advance for you expertise.

I have not done this particular cake, but tried the piping gel transfer technique. It was SO easy and really worked good to do the wedding bell motifs all over the package cakes. I think I would be willing to try one of these cakes now and use that method.

Antonia, I like your idea of the pin pricks. I'm a lefty and while my handwriting is actually very nice, it does tend to run uphill a bit if I'm not super careful. The pin marks should be just enough to 'keep me in line' so to speak. Thanks for the idea!!

I believe I saw the same cake that looked like it was stamped on the side. Someone has one like it posted on this site and she said she got stamps from the hobby store. I have asked her for more info so if you see this post or...... Help!

Beany

That's the right one! It was Carlos Bakery in NYC I believe. Thank you so much for the company who makes the stamps. I'm curious how they are used also. Thanks again!!!!!!

Here is they website http://www.stampworx2000.biz/RecentMags_New.html . You want the Modern Bride - Special Diamond Issue. I'm doing this cake for my best friend in may. I really want to no how they work too. I was just going to do color flo peices. Good luck to anyone trying to do it, hope it turns out.