Lighthouse Wedding Cakes

Posted in: Design styles, Useful Info, cake design | March 4th 2010 | no comments

If you are a modern bride, looking for a modern wedding, then you must definitely start looking for a modern wedding cake too. If you have no idea how the traditional wedding cakes look like, then you must think of anything that is round, in a tired format, filled with cream, white colored and with an icing topper, representing the groom and the bride kissing or holding hands.

The flowers that most traditional brides choose to embellish the wedding cake are made from silk, because they have a beautiful real effect, almost lifelike. If you are willing to break rules and get a little more fuzzy, chic and artistic, then a thematic modern wedding cake will be the best option to fulfill your desires.

Modern wedding cakes are those that are using a big range of flavors, colors, shapes and embellishments. You can’t even imagine what incredible things can be done with a wedding cake, once you decide to add some life and artistic design to your wedding party. If you are going to have a thematic wedding, then your wedding cake must suit with the general idea, for more impact and coherence.

Still if you can’t decide on what theme of cake to choose, we can give you a few examples. There are the lighthouse wedding cakes, which are suitable with a beach wedding party. But if you are a big fan of sea, seashells, sand, waves, beach and everything in between these aspects of nature, then no one can’t stop you in having a lighthouse wedding cake anywhere your wedding might take place.

These thematic wedding cakes are usually used when one wants to replace the old fashion silk or real flower decoration of the cake, and wish to give the cake a different shape and maybe a theme. There are a lot of brilliant ideas and examples of lighthouse wedding cakes designs.

All you have to do is take a look at some picture on the specialized websites that can provide you with these types of cakes, and choose every ingredient, shape, color and detail that you see and like to have on your wedding cake. If you have a favorite color, a favorite flavor or picture of a lighthouse figure, then you could ask your cake designer to incorporate them into the cake.

There are lots of other cool stuffs that can be made with your wedding cake. Most of the traditional ingredients are now replaced with more and more tasteful fillings. Every detail is now more firmly and courageous burned in the cake’s texture, so the final look to seem more real than a wedding cake ever looked like.

Shapes of the modern wedding cakes differ from taste to taste, but the ordinary round cake is long gone. You can choose a heart-shaped wedding cake, a hexagonal, a triangular, rectangular, column cake, or anything crosses your mind. You don’t have to worry because they might get very expensive, because you can make as many adjustments you like to your cake, just to fit your budget. But, considering that the wedding cake represents the main attraction of the wedding night party then you might try to make a few savings.