Comic compromise: Couple's 'double-take' wedding cake hides Marvel-lous surprise

'Double-take' cake: The couple sought the help of Tier by Tier's Julia Baker
Julia Baker
Sebastian Mann24 August 2015

This Marvel-lous spectacle proves marriage really is about compromise - right down to the wedding cake.

When Kia and Billy Bunning, from Milton Keynes, decided to tie the knot, they were beset by creative differences from the off.

Bride Kia, 27, wanted a traditional wedding cake. Billy, 41, wanted it to feature comic-book superheroes including Spider-Man and Batman.

So the pair sought the help of specialist cake-maker Julia Baker, of Tier by Tier, to blend their two visions into one creation.

The result was a double-take cake - traditional on one side, but stripping back in true superhero style to reveal comic designs on the other.

Baker: The aptly-named Julia Baker
Tier by Tier

From the front, the wedding day treat appears an ordinary elegant white cake. But hidden on the back are Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America and Batman.

Speaking to the BBC, Kia said: “We didn’t want it to look like a kid’s party, we just wanted subtle touches like adding characters to the place settings, the seating plan and somehow into the cake."

Julia said the couple, both superhero fans, had commissioned the cake to show the classy and fun sides of their personalities.

"I am overjoyed and slightly overwhelmed at how popular the cake has become, I would never have thought it would go viral so quickly," she told the Standard.

Since photos were posted online following the August 14 wedding, the cake has become something of a phenomenon, with the snaps attracting more than 100,000 likes on one Facebook page and coverage reaching all corners of the globe.

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