We spent £13,000 on a 13ft ‘showstopper’ castle wedding cake – it was perfect

A BRIDE spent £13,000 on a 4 meter long wedding cake covered in 8-stone fondant icing.

Madeline Burton, 18, said she was at a loss for words when it was revealed to her at the reception after she married her high school sweetheart Patrick, 20.

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She spent £50,000 to book the reception in a ballroom at the Savoy on the Strand in London.

Cake artist Sam Woodruff, 48, started making the cake in November using six 8-inch round cakes placed at the base of the structure in a petal design.

The rest is made of polystyrene.

Blue turrets made on a 3D printer were then stacked on top of the structure and each window was fitted with LED balloon lights to make the cake glow.

And it was wrapped in 50 kg of white fondant icing and then decorated with golden leaves.

Madeline from Essex said: “My whole wedding day went perfectly.

“It was a big wedding with over 200 friends and family.

“The cake was absolutely beautiful and I was speechless.

“I paid around £13,000 for the cake and I loved the top of it, with all the light-up details.

“Sam and I worked together to design my dream cake.

“She is so talented and has been designing all my cakes for me since I was 13 years old.

“I asked for a castle and she gave me a showstopper. Sam always manages to surprise me.”

Sam, from Gray Thurrock, Essex, who has been making cakes for six years, said Madeleine’s cake was the largest she has made so far.

The mother-of-four said it took her and her husband Dave Woodruff, 47, six hours to build the castle in one day and they had to use a ladder to reach the top.

She added: “I cried when I saw the finished product.

“I was very emotional because the whole construction process had taken so long.”