Wedding Cakes

Flower Wedding Cakes

There is nothing more romantic, refined, feminine, dainty and inspiring than a flower wedding cake. From all the unique, inventive and modern ways to decorate a wedding cake, fresh or edible flowers seem to be very appreciated among brides and grooms looking for a more delicate, graceful, natural and fragrant wedding.




The numberless modalities of beautifying a wedding cake with flowers, couples should choose the most suitable one that can matching their wedding character, location, style, season, theme, color-scheme, amplitude and budget. After you set the wedding’s theme, think of what types of flowers can complement more the general line of the wedding. If you decide to go with fresh flowers, try to assort them with the bridesmaid’s bouquets or with the bridal bouquet for a more unified and rich image.

There is no need to go with artificial silk flowers since there are so many affordable seasonal fresh flowers out there for you to choose from. Nevertheless, the latest trends in wedding cakes admit the fact that the natural aspect, the simple look and the unsophisticated elegance are the main features of a hot and trendy wedding cake. So try to keep it as simple and clean as possible.

Any couple can decorate their own flower wedding cake at home, following their own imagination, vision and creativity sense. All you have to do is buying a cheap white plain wedding cake and have it finished at home. When using natural flowers one has to be very careful on the toxicity of some types of fresh flowers.

For example, is known that the famous calla lilies, the adorable hyacinth, the feminine tulips, the gorgeous hydrangeas, the superb jasmine, the exotic bird of paradise, the snowdrops, the pink carnations, the arum lily and the lily of the valley are toxic or poisonous flowers that shouldn’t be used plugged directly into the wedding cake.

Therefore, to avoid any rash or sensitiveness caused by these flowers, place the stems into the cake using a protective plastic pick or a special holder. You can choose instead gerbera daises, garden roses, sunflowers, petunias, tiger lilies or orchids. But you should consult a specialist in wedding flowers or a florist. He or she will advice you in what type of flower can harm someone and what type of flowers you can use. For a more impressive, appetizing and romantic look, ornate the cake with edible flowers. Choose petals of lavender, cornflower, pansies, orange blossoms, roses, apple blossoms, chrysanthemums, oreganos or calendula and have them crystallized in sugar.

Depending on your personal preferences, you can place the flowers into the wedding cake in various ways: a flower bouquet on top of the cake as a topper, in a cascading style, falling down from the top of the cake all the way down on to the bottom layer, between the separate layers of the cake, in polka dot patterns, scattering or sprinkling the petals over the cake.