GC Couture is a London-based luxury wedding cake supplier serving five-star wedding venues, prestigious hotels, as well as brides and grooms across the region who are looking for exquisite wedding cakes that offer a culinary cake sensation, rich in both flavour and design.
GC Couture prides itself on offering first-class customer service, which ensures hotels and venues across the country proudly recommend GC Couture to their clientele, as well as attracting brides and grooms from all over the region and several high-profile celebrity clients.
- 5 Star Weddings: What makes GC Couture a luxury cake supplier?
GC Couture: GC Couture is not just about supplying couples with wedding cakes; our ethos and everything we do is focused on the ultimate experience. From the moment a couple get in touch with GC Couture to book a consultation, right through to the delivery of the dream wedding cake on their special day, everything is carried out to the highest standard, attention and care.
We offer unhurried consultations in our dedicated consultation suite, where couples can not only enjoy cake tastings but they can discuss with us their ideas, their vision and their special requests for their cake. We hold their hand each step of the way. Even when the wedding is over, we find the couples come back to us time and time again for their anniversary cakes, family celebration cakes, and it’s such a pleasure for us to be able to build this type of relationship and rapport with our customers.
Being a luxury cake supplier, we ensure that we use only the finest of ingredients; we never compromise on quality. We pay extra special attention to detail, whether it be the most delicate detail on the cake, or the ribbon on the sample cake boxes, to the range of flavours we offer, everything has been considered, treating every client as if they were our first.
- 5 Star Weddings: What are the starting prices of a GC Couture wedding cake?
GC Couture: £600
- 5 Star Weddings: Where do you get your inspiration from?
GC Couture: Ideas are all around, whether it be from fashion, travel, or culture, I am constantly seeing new things and thinking about how I can translate what I see to a new cake design. Our current 2012 GC Couture collection is based on ‘Princesses of our time’, where I drew inspiration from the wedding dresses and the personalities of the likes of Princess Diana, Princess Margaret, and others, and translated these into cake designs.
The type of clients GC Couture attracts always tend to want a unique wedding cake, something that no other couple has had, so I am pretty lucky that our team can really push our creative boundaries and allow our imaginations to run wild to produce a cake that truly is unique and bespoke for our clients.
- 5 Star Weddings: What advice would you give to couples when it comes to choosing their wedding cake?
GC Couture: I would say to remember that when you go to your initial consultation with your cake designer, have an idea at the stage of the theme or the overall concept of your wedding. That way, your cake designer has something to work with. If you have seen ideas for cakes in magazines that you like, take note of them. Also, remember to tell your cake designer things that you don’t like in a wedding cake. The more information your cake designer has, the better.
More and more couples are choosing three or four different flavours and incorporating their unique flavour choices into the other tiers. That way, not only does your wedding cake satisfy the bride and groom’s taste buds, but it also offers an option for your guests. If you have a particular dietary or religious requirement, make sure you tell your cake designer this in the consultation as well, so they can accommodate your needs. Don’t be afraid to experiment; the consultation process is an opportunity to be creative, so don’t feel obligated to stick to a particular design if that’s not what you want.
Your cake designer is there not only to create magic but also to reassure you along the way. This can be done by getting you involved, by showing you sketches of cakes they have produced in the past. Finally, don’t forget the all-important cake tasting! There are so many flavour options available, so don’t automatically feel you have to opt for vanilla or chocolate. Experiment with different flavour combinations until you find the
Perfect one for you.
- 5 Star Weddings: What flavours are most requested from couples at the moment?
GC Couture: Chocolate & Orange, Nutella, Oreo Cookie, Coconut & Lime
- 5 Star Weddings: In your opinion, what makes a 5 Star wedding cake?
GC Couture: Tall, simple & elegant with a subtle hint of Swarovski’s
- 5 Star Weddings: Should your wedding cake reflect the personality of the couple?
GC Couture: Of course! The cake should not only fit in with the style of your wedding but also your personality, and your cake designer will be able to find out during the consultation stage what your personality traits are and how these can be translated through to the wedding cake. You want to look back on your wedding cake in years to come and be able to identify that your wedding cake really was made for you and you only. Many couples are now taking this a step further and requesting a groom’s cake too, so both the bride and the groom have the chance to create something that’s really “them”.
- 5 Star Weddings: What common requests do you tend to receive from couples?
GC Couture: A lot of couples ask us if we can add top tier to eat themselves, rather than freeze or save for a christening. The rush of a wedding day can mean some couples never even have a proper slice of their wedding cake. It’s nice for them to be able to tuck in, in their own time, once the wedding is over.
- 5 Star Weddings: Have you provided your services for any high-profile weddings that you can share with us?
GC Couture: We provided the birthday cake in 2011 for Cheryl Cole and the birthday cake for Lisa Snowden’s birthday this year. We recently provided the wedding cake for Rochelle (The Saturdays) & Marvin (JLS), Danielle Lloyd & Jamie O’Hara’s wedding, as well as made a cake for Amanda Lamb.
- 5 Star Weddings: In your opinion, what makes a 5 Star wedding?
GC Couture: A 5-star wedding incorporates a few different elements. It’s not cookie-cutter. This doesn’t mean it has to be totally off-the-wall or unique, but a 5 star wedding is the kind of wedding where you can see that the couple has put thought into every detail and really injected their own personalities into it.
There are many ways to do luxury, and I think if a wedding has real soul and feeling, that’s the most important thing. I also believe that the bride and groom having a wonderful time makes a real difference to the experience of the day. After all, it’s their day, so watching them enjoy themselves makes the whole day much more exciting and emotional for everyone around them.
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