Wedding Cheese Towers

What Is a Wedding Cheese Tower?

A wedding cheese tower — also called a cheese wedding cake or cheese wheel cake — is a tiered centrepiece built from whole wheels and truckles of cheese, stacked from largest at the base to smallest at the top, in place of a traditional tiered sponge cake. The result looks every bit as impressive as a classic wedding cake, but it's made entirely of cheese.

The appeal is that it does two jobs at once: it's a genuine focal point for your celebration and it's food, doubling as an evening cheese course or grazing centrepiece. For couples who'd rather have a memorable cheeseboard than another slice of sponge, it's become one of the most popular alternatives to the traditional cake.

Why Choose a Cheese Tower Over a Traditional Cake?

How a Cheese Tower Is Built

Each tower is assembled from carefully chosen cheese wheels and truckles, graded by size and stacked into an elegant multi-tier display. The base tiers are large, robust cheeses that can bear the weight above — a mature Cheddar or a firm territorial cheese — while the upper tiers move through creamy, soft and speciality cheeses, finishing with a small showpiece wheel on top.

Balancing the tower is part flavour, part structure: the cheeses are selected so the tiers sit securely and the tasting journey works, from mild and creamy through to something with real character. Most towers run to four, five or six tiers depending on the size of your celebration. Every design is chosen to look the part and to eat beautifully once it's cut.

What Size Cheese Tower Do You Need?

Your guest count decides the number of tiers. As a rough guide, allow around 100–150g of cheese per guest for an evening reception. Our towers serve from around 30 up to 200 guests:

Browse cheese towers by guest count

Styling & Decorating Your Cheese Tower

Our cheese towers are supplied undecorated, which is exactly how couples want them — it leaves the styling to you, so the tower matches your flowers, season and theme. A few popular ways to finish a cheese tower:

• Fresh fruit — figs, grapes and berries tucked between the tiers add colour and complement the cheese.
• Flowers and foliage — a cascade of blooms or a trail of ivy and eucalyptus ties the tower to your florals (keep edible or food-safe flowers touching the cheese).
• Nuts, honeycomb and chutney — a rustic finish that also sets up the tasting.
• A cake topper — the same toppers used on traditional cakes work beautifully on a cheese tower.

Our DIY cheese wedding cake guide walks through stacking and styling in more detail if you're finishing the tower yourself.

How Much Does a Wedding Cheese Tower Cost?

A cheese tower is a genuinely cost-effective choice: against an average traditional wedding cake of around £360, a cheese tower can come in lower and serve as your evening food, so it earns its place on the budget twice. The exact price depends on the number of tiers and the cheeses you choose — you can see current prices for every design on our cheese wedding cakes collection.

How to order

A £60 deposit secures your cheese tower, with the balance due 2–3 weeks before the wedding. We deliver chilled to your venue across the UK mainland, 2–3 days before the day. Order at least two weeks ahead — and earlier for peak season (May to September) — to guarantee your choice of cheeses.

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