Wedding Cake at the
Ritz Paris
I am Ange Gimenez, a wedding cake designer in Paris. For a wedding at the Ritz Paris, I would sculpt a bespoke sugar paste cake by hand and bring it myself to 15 Place Vendôme.
Few addresses in Paris
carry the gravity
of 15 Place Vendôme.
The Ritz opened in 1898 and has held a place at the centre of Place Vendôme ever since. The square itself, drawn under Louis XIV, sets the register for everything inside: stone, symmetry, and a quiet kind of grandeur.
Receptions at the hotel move between salons of real height and gilded panelling, and in summer the garden courtyard opens onto a planted parterre. The Suite Impériale, listed as a Historic Monument, holds the smallest gatherings by candlelight.
The Ritz sits on the Atout France Palace list, and all catering is handled in-house. For couples who want a cake made for them alone, that is where I come in.
A piece made for you alone.
For couples planning a wedding at 15 Place Vendôme who want a cake designed for its salons, hand-sculpted in Paris and brought to the palace on the morning of the wedding.
Some couples want a cake made for them only. Hand-shaped, considered for weeks, finished in their colours, never offered again. That is the only kind of cake I make.
My medium is sugar paste. The work happens by hand in Paris, petal by petal, fold by fold. For a wedding at the Ritz I would build the cake for the salon you have chosen, scaled to its ceiling and paired to the season, so it reads as if it were always meant for that room.
Bringing in an outside cake designer is something the events team agrees with you in advance. It is the way couture cakes travel into Paris palaces: cleared by the hotel, delivered straight to the salon, set in place by the person who made it.
I am based in Paris, a short distance from Place Vendôme. I come to you. For a Ritz wedding, that would mean the cake never leaves my hands until it is standing in the room.
Planning a wedding at The Ritz Paris?
From sketch to Place Vendôme.
Every commission begins with a sketch on the desk. The first conversation is about the room, the light, the season, you.
From there I work alone over several weeks. The structure comes first, then the textures, then the sugar flowers, each one shaped by hand. You taste the flavours separately at the table before anything is committed.
I would deliver the cake to the Ritz myself on the morning of the wedding and assemble it on site in the salon. Sugar paste holds its shape at room temperature, so the cake stays upright through the reception, dinner, and the late hours, in a warm room or out in the garden courtyard.
I take a small number of commissions a year. For a wedding at the Ritz, write to me six to twelve months ahead of the date and I will tell you, honestly, whether I can do it justice.
Couples often ask.
Can you deliver a wedding cake into the Ritz Paris at 15 Place Vendôme?
Yes. I would deliver to the Ritz on the morning of the wedding, arriving through the service entrance once the events team has cleared an outside cake designer with you. Place Vendôme has its own access rhythm, so I would confirm the delivery window and the route to your salon with the hotel in the weeks before the date.
How would you design a cake to suit the salons at the Ritz?
I read the room before I sketch. The salons at the Ritz carry high ceilings, gilded panelling and classical proportion, so I would design a tall, upright piece in ivory sugar paste, with sculpted detail kept calm enough to sit inside that grandeur rather than fight it. The room is the ornament. The cake answers it.
Which flavours can you offer for a Ritz wedding?
The outside is sugar paste, sculpted by hand. Inside, you choose the flavour. I work through options with you at a tasting before the wedding, and I can build different flavours into separate tiers so the cake reads as one piece while giving your guests a choice.
How far ahead should I commission a cake for a Ritz wedding?
Write to me six to twelve months before the date. I take a small number of commissions a year and design each one alone over several weeks, so the calendar fills early for the June to September season.
Do you coordinate with the banquet and pastry team at the Ritz?
Yes. Catering at the Ritz is handled in-house, so I would work alongside their banquet team on timing, the cake table, and the moment the cake is brought into the room. I would assemble the piece on site and brief the staff on the cut, then leave the evening to you.
The Ritz wants height,
not noise.
The salons at the Ritz are built on classical grandeur: high ceilings, gilded panelling, the long sightlines of Place Vendôme just outside. A short, dense cake disappears in a room like that. A tall, upright piece holds it.
For a wedding here I would design upward. Straight-sided tiers in ivory sugar paste, the sculpting concentrated at the base and crown, the rest left calm. Sugar paste lets me build that height and keep it standing all evening, where buttercream would not hold its line through a long Paris dinner. The cake stands at the scale the room expects, then steps back and lets the room speak.
Tell me about
your day.
I take around thirty commissions a year, so each piece has my full attention. If you are planning a wedding in Paris or anywhere in the world, I would love to hear from you.
I also design bespoke cakes for weddings at other Parisian palaces. Discover my guides for the Four Seasons Hotel George V, the Hôtel de Crillon, and Le Bristol Paris weddings. For a château wedding outside the city, see my pages on Château de Ferrières, Château de Champlatreux and Château Bonnaventure.