As a Bride-on-a-Budget, I opted to design my own wedding cupcake tower to avoid paying the extra cake-cutting fee at our wedding venue ($1/guest). After scouring the whole island, my fiancé and I settled on Liliha’s guava-filled cupcakes ($2.59/each). The icing/frosting and the cake itself were divine! Not too sweet yet moist and substantial. The guava-filling was unique and tropical. I asked them to put pink pearlized candies on top, which they did at no extra cost. I ordered an acrylic 6-tiered cupcake tower on Amazon.com ($60), loose orchids from Leis by Ron ($.08/each), and asked a friend to hand paint our cake toppers as our wedding gift. She made Japanese style wooden kokeshi dolls that looked just like us---the Bride and Groom. Liliha could not make a small round guava cake for the top of our tower so I ordered a banana cake instead. The banana cake was not very flavorful so if I could do it again, I’d order something else and taste it in advance. In the end, the cupcakes stole the show. They were truly the “icing on the cake.” Of note, Liliha does not deliver, so I had a trusted friend pick them up for us. Also, make sure you instruct the bakery to place the cupcakes in disposable plastic cupcake holders for transport, as they typically just put them side by side in a regular flat cake box, which would make me very nervous!
