West Midlands: Cupcake wedding venue

Video shows the interior of Steve’s four-metre tall, five-metre wide cupcake structure he built in his West Midlands garden.

Transcript

00:00People have asked me over the years why I create the things I do. Well, you've got to be creative

00:06in life. Otherwise, what's the purpose of life? My purpose in life, I think, is to create bizarre

00:13and wonderful things. Not everyone's going to say they're wonderful, but I think they're

00:18completely wonderful. This time round, I thought, how can I have my cake and eat it? And I've

00:24decided to build a cupcake, because who doesn't want to get married in a cupcake? I'm never

00:29got married, but I think it would encourage me to get married in a cupcake. So, and then

00:35I thought, well, you could also have afternoon teas in a cupcake. You could sleep in a cupcake.

00:42Now, if you think about the amount of people say, oh, where did you stop last night? Oh,

00:45I slept in a cupcake. Firstly, no one's going to believe it, but I think everyone would want

00:51to have a go at it. So, it's as simple as that. So, when I've done, for instance, the shields,

00:56which, again, people say, well, why the shields? Why they are multicolored? I started with black

01:02and gray, but I thought, no, we need color in our lives. So, I looked for inspiration. The inspiration

01:08I got was, believe it or not, from Sir Paul Smith. He came along and said, I love what you're doing,

01:14Steve. Please continue to do so. Be inspired by me, which I have been. The whole concept doesn't look

01:21logical. Because why would it be logical? Why would you want to build a four meter high,

01:26six meter wide cupcake in the middle of your garden? Simply because I can. And it wasn't easy.

01:33It wasn't a piece of cake. I've told this to so many people. They think it is. And now when they come

01:40to see it, because they just imagine a small little cupcake and they turn up and go, oh, I wasn't

01:46expecting that. Well, don't judge before you see. And as you can see, it's in the woodland. It's quite

01:52magical. It's a magical place to come. It has a lovely feel on the inside. Internally, because of

01:59the plants. People go, oh, why the plants? Well, I said, it's a representation of the Amazon rainforest.

02:04And it's a part of our world. Why the second cupcake? Well, that's the moon. And the moon supports

02:10the earth. And everything in life should have a meaning. And if you're going to be creative,

02:16why not be completely creative? And go a little bit eccentric, to say the least. And hopefully,

02:23it's not too extreme for everyone. What people don't appreciate is the architectural attributes

02:28of a cupcake. They think it's a simple form. It is not. It's quite complicated. Now, anyone can build

02:36a tent and to put a support in the middle of it. But to make it free span, it takes engineering.

02:43So a cupcake is a lot more difficult to build than what meets the eye. It took me long to actually

02:49think of the solutions than it did to actually build it. So from an engineering perspective,

02:55it's very difficult. People don't realise it. People think it's just, but the amount of weight

03:00and the support system that had to be put in there, it was very difficult. As George Clark

03:07will tell you, it was one of the most difficult structures and one of the most difficult structures

03:11I've had to overcome. But as you can see, it didn't collapse where everyone expected it to.

03:17They thought I was going to collapse beforehand. But both myself and the cupcake are still standing.

03:23This was not a piece of cake to build.