A wedding trend in recent years is to serve cupcakes instead of a more traditional cake. Here are some reasons to embrace the sweet trend and serve individual cakes.

1. It is nontraditional. If you want ways to express your unique tastes and styles bucking the wedding cake tradition is an easy option. It certainly isn’t too risky to serve cupcakes, but it is also fun and an interesting alternative to cake.

2. It may be cheaper. This is not necessarily always the case, but as we all know, if the word wedding precedes something, the price goes up astronomically. If you order cupcakes from a bakery without mentioning that they are for your wedding, you could get a significantly better price that you would pay for a wedding cake.

3. Style. Cupcakes are infinitely more stylish these days. You can play around more with the decoration. Each one could be slightly different, or you can choose three or four different looks.

4. Differing tastes. You can choose several different cake flavors if you choose cupcakes. People can be quite particular about dessert. Some can’t eat chocolate and some will eat nothing but. With cupcakes, you can choose several differnt types to serve. Arrange them in separate areas with cute little signs to indicate flavor.

5. Germaphobes. I have a friend who chose cupcakes just for this reason. She could not bear the thought of servers putting their fingers all over the cake when they cut it. To her, the only sanitary option was to go with individually wrapped cupcakes.