Royal icing wedding cakes

We had royal icing- fondant icing is grimmer than a grim thing and far too claggy. I love really hard royal icing. My wedding cake was basically three Christmas cakes on top of each other ?

Hurrah, if you had RI then that's ok ?

We had two "xmas cakes" and a G&B cookbook Chocolate Guiness cake for my chocolate-loving, Guiness-drinking fruit-phobic H ?

Served with a smattering of tablet from my best mate ?

And there was me thinking I was the only person who actually loves royal icing and rich fruit cake! I go to extraordinary lengths at Christmas to get a proper RI'd cake - and the jaw breaking harder the icing the better. ?

We didn't but only because we got married in January and I reckoned everyone would be sick to the back teeth of it after Christmas.

We had a chocolate iced cake with a white chocolate sponge.

I got married 5 weeks ago, and had a gorgeous rich fruit cake with white royal icing. It was made by a friend of my mum's, and was delicious! She'd been feeding it alcohol for a good couple of months...........yummy.

We had royal icing on our wedding cake in 2006. It was about a metre long and 40cm wide - 4 big boozy Christmas cakes iced as one cake. The only reason it wasn't stacked was that we made it ourselves, and sorting out the technicalities of layering was far too much faff! I'm glad we weren't the only ones with royal icing - I share KN's opinion of fondant icing.

Hurrah, we can call ourselves the Royal Icing Kleek ?

I can't bear fondant icing either - too sickly for words and hideous texture.

I had a royal iced cake in 2002 - does that count? The only problem was that one layer was sponge but it had got wet underneath and went green so that got binned. Wish I'd known - I'd have taken all the icing off it before it went in the bin!!

It's even difficult trying to find a royal iced Christmas cake (has to be without nuts and without cherries just to make it more difficult) but I persevere and I've always managed to find one!

Unfortunately my wedding cake was made from fondant icing.

However, all of my christmas cakes I royal ice. I like to leave them a good couple of weeks so the icing is properly teeth-breakingly rock solid. ?

Royal icing is great ?

My main wedding cake in november last year was royal rock hard icing. I can't even cut the last tier with my electric carving knife! I tried to break the icing off it so we could eat the fruit cake underneath and it took ages to chip it all off lol

Ours was Royal Icing. And very yummy. Two tiers on a squinty stand with white Royal icing, piping round the edges and red marzipan roses on top. It was made for us by a very dear friend of mine and I loved it.