You’ve heard of yummy looking fashions, well this next dress takes the cake—or at least the cream puff. Make that 1,500 cream puffs. According to news reports, a Ukrainian baker surprised his fiancée by designing the sugary masterpiece that she actually wore on her wedding day.
The dress, which was made of 1,500 cream puffs and weighed 20 pounds, took Valentyn Shtefano’s two months to make, and by the end of the wedding reception, bride Viktoriya said she couldn’t imagine wearing a more perfect gown.
According to Shtefano, making the edible dress was far from a piece of cake. At first, he said he sewed empty cream puffs together, but the dress collapsed. Then, he carefully attached the puffs to a wedding dress frame, and each night before the wedding Viktoriya spent a couple hours modeling the dress while Shtefano added more puffs. In the end, it took more than 1,000 cream puffs to create the strapless, full-length wedding gown. Even Viktoriya’s accessories were edible. Her crown, bouquet and necklace were made from caramelized sugar.
“At first, it was even a little embarrassing,” Viktoriya told local reporters of the dress she wore to the couple’s reception in August. “Cameras, interviews, but after a couple of hours, I didn’t even want to take it off.”
No one mentioned how she got the dress off, but I have a feeling it wasn’t done with the guests’ help. (Can you imagine? “Thanks for coming to our wedding, here have a cream puff.”) regardless, my hat is off to the young bride. I mean talk about devotion to your future husband–agreeing to spend hours in a dress held together by flour, eggs, sugar and caramel. By the way, how does one sit in a cream puff dress? I would imagine the pastry’s integrity would be compromised if someone were to sit on it. And, forget about doing the limbo in a strapless cream puff dress…
Needless to say, this wasn’t the 28-year-old baker’s first experience working with cream puffs. According to local media, last year, Shtefano took a three-month baking course in Paris and entered an international baking competition with his sister. They made a 2-foot-long 1920s-era Cadillac from cream puffs and caramel, and took third place.
Still, I’m not sure how thrilled I would be if my fiancé showed up one day and announced he was making my wedding dress from puffy pastries. I’ve heard of women looking like cream puffs in their wedding dresses… but wearing 1,500 of them?
What do you think? Would you do it?