Wedding Cakes

Eiffel Tower Wedding Cake Topper

If your dream is to make your wedding in France, and you love Paris, guess what would be a great wedding cake topper for you? Among the first things that comes to our mind when we think of Paris: the Eiffel Tower is a landmark, a monument that you must not miss. The most visited tourist attraction of Paris is a daring building with a height of 324 meters and weighs 10,000 tons.




It was built within two years, 2 months and 5 days for the 1889 edition of the Universal Exposition, celebrating a century since the French Revolution. Built in the middle of a park stretched called Champ de Mars, a former military drill ground, this huge tower was an amazing modernism for that era. Gustave Eiffel was the architect who gave life to this monument so controversial over the years and at the same time, so famous. So, dare to choose an Eiffel tower wedding cake topper to fit with the location of the wedding.

For over a hundred years, a slim build, bold, continues to be a true emblem of Paris: the Eiffel tower. Questioned and considered, at first, many famous artists and writers, as something horrible and unnecessary, has since become the Eiffel Tower as a symbol of the French capital, being the most visited  target of it and attracting millions of tourists annually. So why not take advantage of the moment and not to use as the wedding cake topper a miniature of the real Eiffel tower.

The base of the real building is 125 square meters, and the four legs of the tower are directed to the four cardinal points. The legs are supporting each on a massive block of concrete, with an area of 26 square meters and a depth of 15 m. Thus the ground, the tower has a greater stability, though, because it is made of metal, when the wind blows down from the top of the tower can oscillating half a meter! But its real and big importance is the tourist. The monument is owned by the municipality of Paris and make fabulous profits, visited by an average of 3 million people per year (the record was 6 million per year).

From its construction until December 31, 2003, was visited by over 210 million people! It is the most attractive monument in Paris for tourists. It is estimated that just printing tickets are consuming more than two tons of paper per year. He is always open until midnight and serves about 500 people. At night, the monument is lit by 10,000 bulbs, visible from a big distance. If you desire, maybe you will be let to make the wedding even in the inside of the tower, so the more you must have an Eiffel tower wedding cake topper!

On the first floor is the famous restaurant “Jules Verne”, a small museum of the Eiffel Tower. All this work and a post office. If you climb up on the 3rd floor, you can look through a window in the office which was developed  by Gustave Eiffel which remained unchanged. Even the famous engineer can be seen sitting at his desk, but it’s … a wax figure.

The Eiffel Tower, now having the venerable age of 115 years and became the unmistakable symbol of Paris, expects you to visit it and maybe to even organize your wedding there, which it is in fact a great idea for all the romantic couples!