Wedding Cakes

Decorating Wedding Cakes With Fresh Flowers

If you thought flowers at a wedding are classic you are wrong. Not only can you use now artificial flowers but also fresh flowers. Decorating wedding cakes with fresh flowers is one of today’s bride’s favorite things. Floral theme is very special and you can choose flowers from different season. If you choose floral theme in spring magnolia, daisies or iris are perfect. For the summer lilies or petunia are a delightful combination. White dahlia for an autumn wedding and in winter you can always go with roses white, red or yellow. The floral arrangements can be found on the tables, on the bride’s bouquet and on the wedding cake.




Many designers choose nowadays fresh flowers for the wedding. This can bring freshness and elegant note to the wedding. First of all you should know that not all flowers can be used for decorating, some of them are toxic. So be careful what flowers you use to decorate your wedding cake because people have the tendency to eat all from the plate and you don’t want dangerous situations. Here are some of the flowers you should not use: tulip, calla lily, jasmine, pink carnation, snowdrop or bird of paradise.

Second of all another important thing is how you decorate the wedding cake. The word key is simple and tasteful. You shouldn’t use more than three different species of flowers and more than two colors. Also try to combine the flowers from the cake with the rest from the bouquet or centerpieces. Another important thing is what color to use. If the cake is white you can use red, pink or yellow flowers, and if the cake is mostly from chocolate white flowers for a better contrast.

At decorating wedding cakes with fresh flowers are commonly used: roses, petunia, daisy, tiger lily, violet or hibiscus.

Here are some ideas for decorating your wedding cake with fresh flowers:

-  You can sprinkle all over the cake different flower petals
-On each tier you can place flowers or maybe small bouquets of flowers
-Make a cascade of flowers from the top of the cake to every tier
-You can replace the classical bride and groom on the top of the cake with two flowers you consider represents your couple
- If you like simplicity the best thing is to place a small bouquet on the to
-Also you can use fresh flowers as a wedding cake topper and you can add a bride and groom figurine piece

Decorating wedding cakes with fresh flowers has a specific meaning for the wedding. It symbolizes that the couple is not superficial and that their union is a symbol of the nature.