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Designing your wedding cake: deadlines, changes and second thoughts

Booking the cake maker is the easy half. Then come the decisions: the design call, the flavour deadline, the moment one of you falls for a five-tier tower and the other checks the quote. Four cake makers on how the design process actually runs, and how much room there is to change your mind.