Wedding Cakes

Flowers In Wedding Cakes

As summer wedding season is getting closer and closer, more and more brides and grooms are looking for ways of decorating their wedding cake. The final result has to match the theme, color-scheme, location, season, style and character of the wedding.




A floral wedding cake can make the best choice for a spring or a summer wedding because flowers manage always t add more elegance, naturalness, beauty, charm, fragrance and style to anything they touch. One can use seasonal flowers to adorn a simple cheap white wedding cake and transform it into a more creative, inspired, eye-catching and fancy desert, or use edible or fake flowers, depending on the personal style and vision of each couple in part.

Edible flowers can be made form sugar-paste, fondant, royal icing, butter-cream, chocolate or marzipan and take any aspect or type of real flower you want, such as marigolds, violets, carnations, roses, hibiscus, dandelions, lavender, pansies, jasmine or fuchsias. They can give the cake a more realistic, fancy and stunning look and also flatter the guests in a very unique and memorable way.

These days the wedding cake has to exceed the etiquette of a wedding desert and express more elegance, creativeness, art, and in the same time has to reflect the personal style, vision and taste of the couple’s individuality. If you’re decided to go with a floral wedding cake, you must know what are the most popular types of flowers used for wedding cakes and a few methods of arranging flowers in wedding cakes.

If you’re looking for a more delicate, feminine, romantic, playful, cheerful and yet casual, chic and stylish appearance of the wedding cake, use daises, petunias, daffodils, narcissus, poppies or pansies to create a polka dot pattern. On the other hand, if you’re planning a more elegant, fanciful, extravagant, sophisticated and grandiose wedding, go with roses, orchids, sunflowers, peonies, star gazer lilies, calla lilies, Easter lilies, Asian lilies, hydrangeas, freesias, gladiolus, carnations, lilacs, gardenias or tulips. u have to be very careful that the types of fresh flowers you use are no toxic, poisoning or sprayed with pesticides.

Otherwise your guest might get sick, have rashes or other allergies and sensitiveness eating the floral wedding cake. To avoid any dramatic or unwanted situation, be careful when you place the flowers in the wedding cake and make sure that the stems don’t touch directly the wedding cake.

There are lots of unique and creative ways to place the flowers in wedding cakes, using different patterns. For a truly romantic and fancy look, choose to spread or sprinkle flower petals on each tier of the wedding cake. Use bouquets of flowers for the wedding cake’s topper or for each wedding cake tier’s top. For a more dramatic and grandiose look, place the flowers in a cascading style, draping down from the top of the cake onto the bottom layers. Surround the cake with flowers, or place them between the separate tiers of the cake.