Reggie, Beauty splash out on cake of dreams

ANC Youth League (ANCYL) treasurer Reggie Nkabinde and his childhood sweetheart‚ Beauty Matela, pulled out all the stops for their lavish wedding ceremony over the weekend‚ which included forking out more than R60 000 on the cake of their dreams.

The couple’s two-day wedding celebration took place on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal and was nothing short of a fairytale.

However‚ it was not the celebrity guest list or the designer clothing that left guests in awe – it was the 3m-high‚ 100kg, castle-themed cake that stole the spotlight.

Sasha Naidoo, owner of Sugar Coated Cakes‚ the company that created and brought the bride’s dream to reality, said it took her a month to make the cake.

“Beauty came to us with a picture that showed the vision she had for the cake,” Naidoo said.

“The architectural structure was similar to a castle; it had gold elements that made it elegant and flowers that completed her vision of the beautiful cake.”

She said the cake cost more than R60 000 but below R100 000 to make and that the bridal couple needed a sword to cut it at their wedding.

The cake was also covered in pearls and more than 2 000 sugar flowers‚ including hand-made roses‚ peonies‚ orchids‚ hydrangeas and small daisies‚ which Naidoo took over three weeks to make.

“Beauty wanted a statement cake and when I showed her the samples of the flowers‚ she loved them. Coincidentally, they matched the flowers on her table centre pieces.

“So although I spent a lot of time on the details of the cake‚ we knew they would complete the look.”

Four of the tiers were real traditional fruit cake, while the bottom two tiers were artificial.