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Looking for desserts to serve at your wedding that go beyond “wedding cake?” From pies to cotton candy, we have a delicious serving of wedding cake alternatives for ya. Even a few that aren’t even edible, but are still just as awesome!

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No cake? No prob! Pull a “Lady and the Tramp” for your alternative cake cutting photos

If you’re opting for a non-cake alternative for your wedding dessert, you might be thinking, “but how will we do a cake-cutting photo?!” Fear not, there are awesome options. Pull a Lady and the Tramp-style move (you know, sharing the spaghetti?) and eat from both ends of a donut, like Sadie and Devin did at their adorable brewery wedding. Alternately, duo-bite into a cupcake, a slice of pizza, a big ol’ hot dog… whatever your nosh of choice may be.

Why wedding donuts make the best cake substitute ever

10 reasons wedding donuts make the best cake substitute ever

We know cupcakes took hold of the wedding industry by force in the past decades, but we’re seeing loads more wedding donuts and we VERY much approve. Give me a glazed ring or french cruller any day. Plus, donuts = rings, and who says no to a ring theme at a wedding? From towers to photo ops to donut earrings, here are ten reasons why wedding donuts may be your favorite cake substitute…

We dig breakfast so we LOVE this pancake wedding cake!

We dig breakfast so we LOVE this pancake wedding cake!

We’ll be showing off a fantastic rustic wedding later this week, but we seriously couldn’t wait to share their cake ahead of time. I say cake…

Yep, Travis and Gia (wedding coming soooon!) had a breakfast lover’s dream cake… a PANCAKE WEDDING CAKE! Talk about taking your brunch desires in the perfect direction. We’ve seen waffle cakes, we’ve seen naked cakes, but this is the first pancake cake we’ve seen. Are you as in as we are? Grab your syrup and let’s get to pancake wedding cake heaven…

This literal cheese cake is your savory cake alternative

Not into sugar? This literal cheese cake is your savory cake alternative

Darcy and Jasper had one of the most rockin-est (yeah, it’s a word!) weddings ever. “Drunken gay glamour” sets the tone nicely. One little detail that we hadn’t seen in quite some time was their literal cheese cake, a savory cake alternative for the less sweets-minded. Stacked cheese is always goooood.