Who says an all-white wedding cake is boring? Five of the hub's best pastry chefs craft confections that are almost too pretty to slice.

Photographs by Hornick/Rivlin
Styling by Joji Goto/Ennis

Four seasons executive pastry chef Tim Fonseca took cues from modern Japanese architecture when imagining this carefully balanced, cubist-style cake. Thin geometric piping and blocks of molded white chocolate accentuate the spare buttercream squares, while sprigs of white dendrobium orchids echo the Asian theme.

$15 per slice, 617-338-4400, fourseasons.com/boston.