Every bride knows she needs something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue at her wedding… but what about something explosive?
Food artists Bompas & Parr are launching a food explosion service for weddings where for a fee a trained explosives technician will lay charges within your wedding cake ready for you to detonate.
A spokesperson for the firm said: "Traditional wedding cakes are a triumph of spectacle over taste. Bompas & Parr’s food explosion service pushes this ethos to its ultimate conclusion.
"The ritual of cutting the cake is significantly enhanced through the explosion, the sense of occasion heightened by the blast and your guests are spared eating flavourless fruitcake."
The service starts from £800 and includes a risk assessment and an explosive technician liaising with your cake provider to tell them how their creation will be destroyed.
The explosives expert will then attend on the day of the wedding to set the explosives, rig the detonator and supervise the explosion.
All explosives are transported within containers meeting the MoD’s SEAP 4 security standards as referred to in JSP440.
Harry Parr, partner of Bompas & Parr comments: "Wedding cakes can be brutally stodgy. Blowing the cake up spares the stomach after a heavy meal is a good way to wake guests up for the speeches!”
Food artists Bompas & Parr are launching a food explosion service for weddings where for a fee a trained explosives technician will lay charges within your wedding cake ready for you to detonate.
A spokesperson for the firm said: "Traditional wedding cakes are a triumph of spectacle over taste. Bompas & Parr’s food explosion service pushes this ethos to its ultimate conclusion.
"The ritual of cutting the cake is significantly enhanced through the explosion, the sense of occasion heightened by the blast and your guests are spared eating flavourless fruitcake."
The service starts from £800 and includes a risk assessment and an explosive technician liaising with your cake provider to tell them how their creation will be destroyed.
The explosives expert will then attend on the day of the wedding to set the explosives, rig the detonator and supervise the explosion.
All explosives are transported within containers meeting the MoD’s SEAP 4 security standards as referred to in JSP440.
Harry Parr, partner of Bompas & Parr comments: "Wedding cakes can be brutally stodgy. Blowing the cake up spares the stomach after a heavy meal is a good way to wake guests up for the speeches!”