Wedding Cakes

Wedding Cakes with Lillies

How can you transform a simple cake into an exceptional cake? The details will make all the difference. The decorations you choose for your wedding cake will make the difference between a successful wedding cake and an ordinary wedding cake. If you are planning for a spring or summer wedding, or an outdoor wedding a simple way to decorate your wedding cake is to use flowers.

A wedding cake decorated with flowers is romantic, elegant and not too expensive especially if you use real flowers. Is easy to decorate your wedding cake with real flowers but before doing that you should know the significance of flowers you will use. After roses, lilies are the most popular. You can create a theme wedding using lilies. There are many types of lilies you can use to decorate your wedding cake.

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Peruvian lilies symbolize friendship and devotion, Pink Stargazer lily represents immense wealth and prosperity, White Pink Stargazer lily is the symbol of peace and purity. The white lily symbolizes purity and majestic. The pink lily represents prosperity and wealth but also aspiration and youth. Pink lilies have a wide variety of shades from light pink, to hot pink and fuchsia and dark pink. The most popular varieties: Oriental lily ‘’Hot Lips’’, Asiatic lily ‘’Lollipop’’ and the Pink Stargazer lily. The red lily originates from Caucasus and is a less common color for a lily. Blue lilies do not grow naturally but can be obtained using blue dye. The most known are blue calla lilies. The purple lily is a hybrid of regal trumpet lily and exotic Asiatic lily and it is called Purple Prince. The orange lily is called fire lily and symbolizes hatred or death. The Tiger Lily is another type of orange lily and is the symbol of pride, wealth and jealousy. The most common yellow lily is the yellow calla lily called Queen Victoria Calla Lily is the symbol of wealth and resurrection. If you want something in a more gothic style use black lilies. The most popular of black lilies are: “Black Spider”, Asiatic lily in black and white, black red lily ‘’Black Beauty’’ and ‘’ Black Jack’’ lily.

Black lilies will look spectacular on a white wedding cake. If you the black and white theme for your wedding cake you can also choose a dark chocolate cake and you can decorate it with white lilies. Or you can use any other color combination you want for your wedding cake. Be very careful when you use real lilies, some are toxic if they are ingested. Tiger lilies are among the worst poisonous plants and also Easter Lily, Rubrum Lily, Japanese Show Lily and Day Lily. So is better to choose artificial lilies for your wedding cake made from silk, satin, gum paste, fondant or sugar.