{"id":404877,"date":"2026-04-22T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:25:09","slug":"his-wedding-cakes-start-from-us23500-meet-the-pastry-chef-who-caters-to-the-ultra-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404877\/","title":{"rendered":"His wedding cakes start from US$23,500. Meet the pastry chef who caters to the ultra-rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competing for attention with <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3019771\/jennifer-lopez-50-her-best-looks-dress-launched-google?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a> is no easy task. But at a recent wedding in India where the American star performed in a barely-there sparkly leotard, it was arguably the cake that stole the show.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The towering multi-tier construction, several metres high and inspired by Rajasthani architecture, became a talking point among guests and featured prominently in media coverage of the 500-guest extravaganza in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Its designer was French celebrity pastry chef Bastien Blanc-Tailleur, whose creations are to cakes what haute couture is to fashion: one-off, handmade and requiring extraordinary investments in time and money.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe rarely work on a wedding that has a budget of less than \u20ac1 million,\u201d says the 34-year-old in his studio outside Paris, surrounded by five of his latest edible sculptures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bastien Blanc-Tailleur made five cakes for the marriage ceremony of Netra Mantena and Vamsi Gadiraju. Photo: Instagram\/thejoee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d722c90d-8287-435b-885d-5df83e2a24eb_039f0bbd.jpg\" title=\"Bastien Blanc-Tailleur made five cakes for the marriage ceremony of Netra Mantena and Vamsi Gadiraju. Photo: Instagram\/thejoee\"\/>Bastien Blanc-Tailleur made five cakes for the marriage ceremony of Netra Mantena and Vamsi Gadiraju. Photo: Instagram\/thejoee<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The marriage ceremony of US-based billionaire heiress Netra Mantena and tech entrepreneur Vamsi Gadiraju in Udaipur, India, cost a reported US$6.7 million, with J.Lo said to have pocketed US$2 million for her appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Competing for attention with Jennifer Lopez is no easy task. But at a recent wedding in India where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[191465,9701,146,191469,85,46,8127,191467,191464,33500,191468,191466],"class_list":["post-404877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bastien-blanc-tailleur","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-entertainment","tag-four-seasons-hotel-george-v","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-pastry-chef","tag-ultra-luxury-wedding-cakes","tag-wedding-cake","tag-wedding-cake-maker","tag-wedding-cakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}