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10 Wedding Desserts that Will Have Your Guests in Awe!

To eat cake, not to eat cake, or to have wedding desserts? That is one of the questions couples decide on during the wedding planning process. Some want to keep the tradition and have wedding cake, other people just want a cake to cut for a cake cutting during the reception, and others will have desserts instead. While people do love tradition, couples nowadays are moving away from traditional wedding events and thinking outside of the box. Wedding desserts is a perfect example of that. Guests will still munch on something sweet, but in a different form. You will find that more and more couples will have wedding desserts to celebrate. Here are 10 fun wedding desserts for your wedding!

10 Wedding Desserts to Think About

cherry pie, apple pie, and bourbon pecan pie as wedding desserts
Photographer: Yellow Paddle Photography | Dessert: Cake Crumbs

Pie

Pies aren’t just for Thanksgiving, they can be for weddings too! You can even have different flavored pies so everyone can get a little taste of their favorite.

Mini Desserts

Add some variety to your wedding desserts for people to choose from! This is the best way to incorporate an array of different weddings desserts. Include something for the chocolate lovers, the fruit lovers, and the cheesecake lovers.

Photographer: A. Light Photography

S’mores

Keep warm by the fire while roasting a marshmallow for your dessert. Do you like your marshmallow lightly toasted or so toasted that your marshmallow catches on fire?

Cupcakes

Cupcakes are like little personal cakes for your guests. Perfectly iced and decorated and is the perfect serving size that isn’t too much.

Milkshakes

Why not drink your dessert? This is a fun twist for a wedding dessert!

Donuts

This sugary bundle of joy is also a wedding dessert that will give you lots of variety for guests to choose from.

Photographer: Adam Houseman | Dessert: Footers

Churos

Who doesn’t love fired dough covered in sugar and cinnamon? Top it off with a side of ice cream, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream!

Cookies

Did someone say milk and cookies? This is a fun wedding dessert that your guests will enjoy! Or how about getting custom cookies that incorporates your wedding design and your guests can take them as favors? This is a great personal added touch.

Ice Cream

Just like milkshakes, ice cream is a wedding dessert will help cool your guests off while dancing the night away! They can decide if they want toppings on their ice cream or if they want their dessert in a cup or a cone.

Candy

Bring the inner kid out in your guests! Are you going with chocolate candy, fruity candy, or both?

cake tasting for guests wedding dessert
Photographer: From The Hip | Cake: A Cake Come True

Cake With A Twist

Give your guests the wedding cake tasting experience! It’s a fun, interactive activity that your guests will love. Other ideas that are outside the box is giving each table their own cake to cut into or giving each guest a personal individual cake for them to enjoy.

Still loving the cake idea for a wedding dessert? Here are a few inspo photos!

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