Remember those sepia-toned pictures from your grandparents’ wedding day? The ones with a close-up on an elaborate, white, tiered cake topped with intricate swoops and swirls of icing?

If you thought that cake style was hopelessly old-fashioned — wrong! As it turns out, granny was right on trend.

In contrast to the elegant, minimalist styles (remember “naked cakes?”) and fondant cakes popular just a few years ago, intricately detailed, vintage-style wedding cakes that draw inspiration from past eras are now all the rage.

“I think it might have started ironically at first, but now it’s a full-blown trend,” says pastry chef Casey Renee, owner of Pittsburgh-based Confections by Casey Renee.

Renee, who has been featured on Food Network’s “Best Baker in America,” notes vintage-style cakes ar

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