Bride Bakes 7 Cakes for Her Wedding 48 Hours Before Nuptials: See the Stunning Sweets! (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Lucy Jane Cooper Arnold’s wedding cakes.Photo:Joseph Kinerman Photography

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

Joseph Kinerman Photography

“I am a bit of a control freak, so the thought of delegating this task elsewhere would have only caused me sleepless nights! I can imagine myself being a bridezilla to that poor baker!” Lucy tells PEOPLE. “Weddings are also so expensive, and I know what I charge for my work.”

The dessert table.Joseph Kinerman Photography

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

Lucy has been baking her entire life, and began selling cakes professionally in 2016. The buttercream specialist behind Lucy Jane Cakes has been widely recognized for her work, with 105,000 followers onInstagramand nearly 200,000 followers onTikTok. So, when she had the idea to go big with seven wedding cakes, she was confident she could do it.

“I always wanted to do something different but wasn’t sure on the scale of it, as I make cakes for everyone else and rarely for myself,” Lucy says. “This was going to be my special day and I wanted to bring personal aspects of our lives into our wedding.”

“If the restaurant had enough space to store them I probably would have done more cakes but sadly they couldn’t store them all!” she adds.

Wedding cakes.Wedding cakes.Wedding cakes.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman PhotographyWedding cakes.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman Photography

Wedding cakes.Wedding cakes.

Wedding cakes.

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

Wedding cakes.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman PhotographyWedding cakes.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman Photography

In hindsight, it was probably a good thing that the restaurant couldn’t fit more cakes because making so many cakes in such a short time period, on top of dealing with other wedding details, was “a lot” for Lucy.

“A wedding is one of the most stressful events most couples will have to go through,” says Lucy, who got engaged just nine months before her wedding in March 2024. “Then to take on the stress of not just making one wedding cake but seven…it felt so overwhelming and I did feel like I was drowning the week leading up to the wedding.”

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

She adds: “Not something I recommend any bride doing two days before her wedding.”

Luckily, her hard work was worth it.

“The cakes turned out better than anything I could have imagined and it felt so special that I could be so proud of myself on my wedding day,” Lucy says. “It is something I will always look back on and feel like I really achieved something different for our day. The effort, stress and worry was 100% worth it!”

Each cake had a different flavor and ornate colorful pipework.

Oliver Cooper Arnold and Lucy Jane Cooper Arnold.Joseph Kinerman Photography

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

“The flavour of the main three-tier cake was classic vanilla sponge, then we had vanilla lemon, vanilla raspberry, vanilla jam, chocolate hazelnut, chocolate plain, and chocolate Nutella.”

“Something Old” brownies.Chocolates with the couple’s dog, Frank, on them.“Something Old” brownies.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman PhotographyChocolates with the couple’s dog, Frank, on them.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman Photography

“Something Old” brownies.Chocolates with the couple’s dog, Frank, on them.

“Something Old” brownies.

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

Chocolates with the couple’s dog, Frank, on them.

Bride Makes 7 Wedding Cakes 2 Days Before Her Wedding

“Something Old” brownies.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman PhotographyChocolates with the couple’s dog, Frank, on them.PHOTO:Joseph Kinerman Photography

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Her “Something Old” was “the famous brownies that started in 2008.” “Something New” was a new flavored sponge cake that she baked just for her wedding. Krispy Kreme donuts counted as “Something Borrowed,” and one of the cakes was her “something blue.”

The takeaway boxes were labeled “and something for you,” and had personalized paper inside with the couple’s “L&O” initials.

Other custom details include the couple’s little sausage dog, Frank, as a figure on the chocolates, as well as figurines of Lucy and Oliver for the main cake topper.

“We also scented the room in our favorite Diptyque Baies candle and had a set cocktail menu of our favorite drinks,” Lucy shares. “Each menu also had a photo of us with that guest attached to it, so personalization was a really important part of our day.”

source: people.com