Celebrate! Wedding Cakes by Wilton 1983 First Edition Hardcover

Celebrate! Wedding Cakes by Wilton is a 1983 first edition hardcover filled with colorful wedding cake designs, decorating instructions, and patterns.

This copy is in really good vintage condition, with clean, readable pages, bright illustrations, minor shelf wear, and an original price sticker on the back cover.

From towering cakes decorated with roses to elaborate designs featuring bells, stairways, and lacework, this Wilton guide walks readers through the construction and decorating techniques used to create formal wedding cakes in the early 1980s.

Details

• Item: Vintage wedding cake decorating book
• Title: Celebrate! Wedding Cakes
• Author: Edited by Eugene T. Sullivan and Marilynn C. Sullivan
• Illustrator: Not confirmed 
• Publisher: Wilton Enterprises, Inc., Woodridge, Illinois
• Publication Year: 1983
• Edition and Printing: First Edition. Printing number not confirmed from photos.
• Format and Binding: Illustrated hardcover
• Dust Jacket: None
• Pages: 192
• Genre: Cake decorating, baking, wedding cakes, instructional cookbook
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0-912696-23-0
• Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 0.5 inches

Inside the Book

This illustrated Wilton decorating guide presents wedding cake designs with detailed instructions for their construction and decoration.

The pages include full-color photographs of finished cakes alongside written directions describing how to create the individual designs.

Featured techniques and designs include:

• Multi-tiered wedding cake construction
• Decorative cake stairways and columns
• Royal icing lacework
• Piped flowers and rose decorations
• Floral arrangements and decorative borders
• Assembly instructions for elaborate cake displays
• Wedding cake designs featuring bells and figurines
• Instructions for decorating individual cake tiers

Among the photographed designs are Tower of Roses, Daisy, and Bridal Bells. These examples show the detailed piping, flowers, and decorative structures used in Wilton wedding cake decorating during this period.

The book also includes instructions for preparing and assembling the cakes, making it useful for studying traditional decorating techniques as well as browsing the finished designs.

Condition Grade: Very Good

Positives

• Graded Very Good: A well-kept vintage hardcover with light signs of use that do not interfere with reading or viewing the illustrations.
• Front cover retains its colorful original wedding cake photograph and green lettering.
• Back cover retains its printed photographs and descriptive text.
• Orange spine has clear, readable lettering.
• Pages are clean and easy to read.
• Full-color cake photographs remain bright and detailed.
• Instructions and decorating information are legible.
• The hardcover binding retains its original illustrated boards.
• The 1983 copyright page identifies this as a first edition.

Issues / Wear

• Minor shelf wear along the cover edges and corners.
• Light rubbing and small surface marks on the illustrated covers.
• Small areas of wear along the orange spine edges.
• Original price sticker remains attached to the back cover.

The 1983 first edition includes the detailed wedding cake photographs and decorating instructions that make older Wilton books useful for studying traditional cake design. It would be a welcome addition to a cake decorator's reference shelf. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.