Unique Theme Ideas for Your Wedding Cake
Theme weddings can launch some truly creative wedding cake ideas -- ones that delight the eye and mind as well as the tastebuds.
Need a beautiful idea for a medieval theme wedding? Try a cake laced with pearls and topped with a golden crown. On the other hand, adventure-loving couples can top their cake with mini figurines of the newlyweds in a small plane or a motorcycle. If you're planning a Victorian theme wedding, try a cake draped in bows and Victorian roses. Or for an Oriental themed wedding, a two-tiered cake topped with an orchid-filled vase is elegance itself.
Your wedding cake theme could reflect your love for a favorite flower ... sunflowers, pansies, birds-of-paradise, roses. A talented cake designer can actually replicate your bridal bouquets in sugar and fondant. Or for a down-home look, order up a garden that mirrors your yard, complete with picket fences.
Then, there are seasonally themed cakes — which give your designer license to let his imagination run wild. For fall weddings, you could opt for a cake garnished with grapes, grape leaves and chrysanthemums. Summer-themed wedding cakes look as cheerful and bright as the season with fondant bows and white daisies.
Even more dramatic are the wedding cakes based on favorite crystals and jewels. The diamond lover can have a stunning diamond-themed cake, studded generously with edible crystals — though this can be an expensive option. Want the exotic look of jade? With cake, you can create an entire stack of complex, jade-like slabs. It's even possible to base your cake on a china pattern. In fact, with the new edible technologies, some bakers can actually scan any pattern you please and affix it, picture-perfect, to your cake's fondant shell.
For a truly unique wedding cake, have a heart-to-heart with the cake designer, giving both of you plenty of lead time. Though there's always that urge to come up with an incredible design by yourself, you'll probably find it helpful to pick the brains of a pro who does "incredible" for a living.
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June 21st, 2008 at 11:00 am
Where can one buy the edible crystals like the ones you mentioned in the article about unique-themed wedding cakes? My daughter and I have been searching endlessly for a supply source for edible crystals and jewels…to no avail. Any help you can give us will be immensely appreciated.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Hali, if you want a fountain that is lighted red, what you really need is just a regular fountain and color the water. That is what I always do for wedding cakes that I use a fountain on. Any craft store that sells Wilton products should have or be able to get the fountain. Or you can go to Wilton.com.
Hope this helps.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I have been looking for a fountain that goes under my wedding cake but I can’t find a red lighted one. Please if you have any ideas to where i can find one please let me know.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I saw an article about edible jewels for cakes on this website:
chicdesigncafe.blogspot.com/2008/01/edible-jewels-for-cakes.html
Maybe that will help
January 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Hi girls,
For the edible diamonds and edible versions of other gems (pink topaz, blue sapphire, etc.) try this site: www.fancyflours.com, click on Cake Jewels. Good luck!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Am looking for a cake maker, — in Antelope Valley or L.A. area — who can make a” Nightmare Before Christmas”- wedding cake.
Any suggestions?
thx,
dlcobb
January 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I’m looking for edible diamonds for a cake, also…. did anyone find a place to get them?
December 5th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Hi Lynda, take a look at this:
How to Make Your Wedding Cake Look Like a Million Bucks. It lists some sources.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:21 am
I am looking for edible diamonds for a wedding cake. I tried to make them, but here in Texas, its way too humid–they wouldnt dry. I would prefer to just order them from someone–anybody know where I can find them?!!
August 14th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I’m trying to find the edible diamond crystals for my theme wedding cake. Does anyone know where I can find them?
August 14th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Im having a wedding with a snowflake theme and my colors are undecieded but im leaning to a forrest, plum, and navy. maybe not that dark but you get the idea, however i can’t find any cakes that will go along with the theme can anyone help me?
July 21st, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Hi ladies, I am also looking edible crystals… Any luck?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Hi Tiffany, I too am looking for edible diamonds, did you have any luck finding them?
July 12th, 2007 at 10:05 am
I want a pink wedding. And I just loved the pink cake Paris hilton had done for the lesbian couple in episode number 5 of the season 4! Someone knows where it was done or where I can look at some pictures? Help!!! I´m almost loosing hope!
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Where can I find these edible crystals for a diamond themed cake??
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
where can i find these edible crystals for the diamond themed cake??
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:25 pm
i need ideas for a college themed wedding cake. the happy couple graduated in rival universities. the colors are carolina blue and state red.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Your site is great, but I am the mother of the bride, they are getting married in April 2008, both are very good bowlers and I am looking for a cake top related to their bowling passion. Can you help me find one?