Dallas Bakery Decorates Wedding Cake with 1,200 Carats in Diamonds
January 25, 10
Cakes decorated with diamonds,
such as the one above, are an
expensive venture
A wedding cake covered in sapphires and diamonds went on display this weekend at a Dallas Bridal show this weekend, according to NBC’s Dallas/Fort Worth affiliate. The magnificent nine-tier wedding cake, valued at $1.3 million, could arguably be the focal point of any wedding celebration. It weighs about 160 pounds and serves about 320 people at a less-than-economical price of $3,125 per slice.
A Dallas bakery, Delicious Cakes, and the Dallas Gold and Silver Exchange got together to create the wedding cake, which is decorated in silver "luster" dust icing and 1,200 carats of diamonds.
"We wanted to do something different this year," said Butch Stivers, owner of Delicious Cakes. "With the economy being bad - and we do the Dallas Bridal Show so many years - we wanted to do something that the new brides-to-be could see and dream about and get their minds off everything else that's going on."
The cake was transported this weekend by armored car to