{"id":71866,"date":"2014-12-10T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5starweddingmagazine.com\/?p=71866"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:28:53","slug":"slice-of-royal-wedding-cake-goes-to-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/slice-of-royal-wedding-cake-goes-to-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A wedding cake slice from the wedding of the <strong>Duke and Duchess of Cambridge <\/strong>has been sold at an auction in Beverly Hills for <strong>$6,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70608d4f-0c6a-40cd-a828-5d4c2a97af3c.jpg\" alt=\"William and Kate Wedding Cake \" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70608d4f-0c6a-40cd-a828-5d4c2a97af3c.jpg\" alt=\"William and Kate Wedding Cake \" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Auctioneer Julien\u2019s of Beverly Hills had expected the cake to raise just $2,000 at most. It was eventually purchased by <strong>Gee Chuang<\/strong>, for nearly four times as much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/f279e3be-2c09-410f-bd94-d3ec33d6b195.jpg\" alt=\"William and Kate Wedding Cake Auction\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/f279e3be-2c09-410f-bd94-d3ec33d6b195.jpg\" alt=\"William and Kate Wedding Cake Auction\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cake was the centerpiece for the wedding and was the result of 5 weeks\u2019 worth of labor. Created by baker <strong>Fiona Cairns,<\/strong> the eight-tiered cake was covered in 900 sugar flowers, and consisted of 17 individual fruit cakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/b568bb9c-b925-4a71-82b6-0cdb565f468e.jpg\" alt=\"Fional Carins Royal Wedding Cake\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Slice Of Royal Wedding Cake Goes To Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/b568bb9c-b925-4a71-82b6-0cdb565f468e.jpg\" alt=\"Fional Carins Royal Wedding Cake\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cake is presented in a special collector\u2019s tin, engraved with the words <strong>\u201cWilliam &amp; Catherine 29 April 2011\u201d<\/strong> and wrapped in greaseproof paper, the same way samples of the cake were handed out to guests of the royal wedding. The box comes with an official wedding card and blank invitation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more of the royal wedding visit here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wedding cake slice from the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been sold at an auction in Beverly Hills for $6,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-royal-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}