Wedding Cakes

Hippie Wedding Cake Topper

The details you choose for your wedding defines your personality, your style, hobbies and even occupation. We all want to have a unique wedding, to choose the things that best defines us and to have the wedding we always wanted. If the conventional, traditional style doesn’t characterize you choose a hippie style for your wedding. The hippie subculture started as a youth movement in the mid-60′s, started in USA and spread in other countries. The word hippie means awareness. The hippie philosophy has religious and spiritual teachings of Gandhi, Hillel the Elder, Buddha, Mazdak, Jesus Christ. The hippie was a peaceful movement promoting freedom, spiritual awareness and acceptance. The hippie style is characterized by bold colors, peaceful messages, flower power. Different signs and symbols were used in hippie subculture, such as the peace signs, peace flags, peace hands symbols, flowers, doves, the tree of life, feathers. In the hippie subculture different ethnic styles and symbols were mixed. If you are planning a hippie style wedding, then every detail should reflect the theme. One important detail is the wedding cake topper. Hippie wedding cake toppers are easy to be recognized because of the peace signs, ”flower power” details and because of the decorations. As your cake toppers you can choose hippie figurines, a hippie couple topper or peace hands toppers.

Being hippie doesn’t mean just having long hair, colorful clothes, but if you take the philosophy beyond the appearance you will find a set of ideas that can still be used today. We all need to be a little hippie in our hearts, to be a little more tolerant, not racist, in peace with your inner self and with the universe, to protect the nature for future generation, to live in harmony, accepting one another, seeking not so much material things but to focus our attention on spiritual side too, to love the nature, to love people and life in general. Yes we all need a little bit of hippie philosophy in our lives. But what stated as a good thing soon turned into something else and the hippie movement was associated with bad things.

But if we keep in mind the positive side of the hippie movement we can learn something from it. If you are planning for a retro wedding you can include hippie elements and decorations into your wedding.

The hippie motifs you can use for your wedding cake toppers are flowers, bright colors, psychedelic effects, peace signs, feathers, birds, trees. You can buy the hippie wedding cake toppers from Right Brain Creations website a hippie couple topper, or from That’s My Topper website where you will find lots of styles and from many other websites. You can even create your own hippie wedding cake toppers if you have talent and time. You can make a picture with both of you in hippie style frame it in glass and use it as a cake topper at your hippie wedding reception.