Splat Cooking, a local company from Princess Risborough, was recently asked to be involved in an exciting new Channel 4 programme launched next week called Wedding House.

Being aired on Tuesday 5th October at 8pm, the show is no ordinary wedding programme, there’s a twist! Once the bride and groom have spoken to the wedding team about their dream wedding, they will have nothing more to do with the day until they actually arrive at the venue to get married!

The theme chosen for the wedding was Alice in Wonderland, so in keeping with the unusual and wacky premise of the story, the wedding co-ordinators needed an alternative to the conventional wedding bouquet. Beverley Glock, Founder and Celebrity Chef, at Splat Cooking was contacted by Channel 4 producers after they discovered that the company produce and teach how to make cupcake wedding bouquets. They thought that this would be the perfect touch to the unconventional wedding.

Beverley and fellow Splat Cooking Cookery Leader, Debbie Gross set to work producing a cupcake bouquet to top all bouquets! The bride was to be dressed as Alice so it had to be flamboyant enough to set off the outfit. Cupcake bouquets are usually used as centre pieces at weddings, so to produce an actual usable cupcake bouquet didn’t come without its challenges. However, Beverley is never one to resist a challenge, and along with Debbie they produced a fantastic white rose creation with trailing ivy. The next test of nerves was transporting it to the venue in Kent which came with its own trials and tribulations!

Unsurprisingly the programme is filled with emotional brides, but when the bride saw the bouquet she was ecstatic and luckily for Beverley there were no cries of “Off with her head!”

Commenting on the occasion Beverley Glock said, “This is the first time that we know of that a bride has walked down the aisle with a bouquet of actual cupcakes, fully edible, no superglue or other nasties in sight. It was a real challenge but great fun. I am really looking forward to watching the programme and seeing how they look.”

In addition to the bouquet the Splat Cooking team, produced two cupcake displays with the Alice in Wonderland theme, in both a giant teacup and teapot.

Based on information supplied by Jane Bray.