By: May Rostom

The royal wedding was referred to as the “wedding of the century” by Star magazine despite a recent survey carried out in Canada claiming that 7 out 10 Canadians feel indifferent about the couple’s marriage.

Being the oldest royal bride in history at age 29, Kate has not forgotten to pay attention to the slightest details, the perfect wedding for the perfect couple.

Kate Middleton was Prince William’s room-mate in college and comes from a middle-classed family in Berkshire. Although being careful with money and trying really hard to spend where necessary, the couple got Fiona Cairns, the luxury baker to bake their FIRST wedding cake that will be the centerpiece of the Buckingham Palace wedding reception.

Fiona was a graphic designer who enjoys baking. Encouraged by her Indian husband to take her kitchen skills and open a bakery, Fiona now has a turnover of 8 million dollars, and supplies to Selfridges, Harrods, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, and Fortnum & Mason.

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"I have been a big fan of the Royal family since childhood and this is a dream project for the company which I have built up over the last 25 years with my husband," Ms Cairns told ET from Leicestershire , where she lives and runs her state-of-the art bakery.

“What we're creating for Prince William and Kate Middleton is a traditional fruit cake with a twist of the modern. It's multi-tiered, doesn't have color – it is cream and white (icing) – and it's a traditional cake but also quite delicate and modern, all the tiers will have a different theme." 16 different kinds of flowers are featured on the cake, each carrying a different meaning, and one specifically named Sweet William which translates into perfection and gallantry.

The cake contains dried fruits, raisins, nuts, cherries, lemon, and French brandy.  "These are many of the ingredients we will be using in the cake, I can't tell you exactly the recipe, but the brandy is very important, we always soak our fruits overnight to plump up the fruits. This is exactly the same method you would use at home if you were making a fruit cake – we just use bigger batches" said Fiona Cairns.

You’d think that’s more than enough for a wedding cake, but when it comes to Royals, why not have two? McVities Cake Company, that produces the famous Digestive biscuits, will be baking the SECOND cake for the ceremony. The company has a long history for making celebration cakes for the royal family since 2007. When asked, Paul Courtney of McVities didn’t reply regarding the ingredients of the cake, saying he was sworn to secrecy as the recipe for the cake is an old Palace recipe that Prince William used to enjoy as a child over tea.