Unique and Custom Wedding Cake Toppers

Long gone are the days when every wedding cake bore the traditional plastic bride and groom standing hand and hand on a frilly white wedding cake. Today’s bride and I suspect even the groom are going out on a limb and trying on unique wedding cake toppers.

The emphasis can be on an overall wedding theme cake topper, the initials of the bride and groom, fresh flower cake toppers, religious symbolic cake toppers, humorous cake toppers, cartoon character cake toppers, and the list just goes on.

It’s important to remember that your cake, albeit in most cases, your dessert for your guests, also serves as a backdrop for some of your pictures. Selecting a cake and a complementary cake topper is an important decision in your wedding planning process. Personally, I love the idea of having a cake topper that can serve as an ornamental piece in your home after the wedding. What a perfect reminder of your special day on display in the home you share together.

As with all of the details in organizing your wedding, maintaining an overall consistency is key to ensuring that all of the pieces fit together in the event as a whole. Throwing things together that aren’t complementary for the sake of having something will definitely not go unnoticed by your guests. So if you’re planning on having a Mad Hatter/Topsy Turvey Cake, don’t succumb to the pressure of using your mom’s wedding cake topper from the 70’s for the sake of tradition.

Wedding cake toppers are a great way to add a piece of yourself to your wedding cake. Be bold, be interesting, top your wedding cake as only you can!

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Wedding Cake Ideas

Long gone are the days of the hum drum of a traditional 3 tier wedding cake. Today’s brides are breaking all of the rules; from ditching the groom cake, to serving up individual cupcakes, to monogrammed sugar cookies wrapped in cellophane.

Wedding cakes have become a real outlet for creativity and self-expression, much more so than flamboyant flowers and prom-styled bridesmaid dresses. Today’s couples are putting a little fun into the planning by choosing delicious flavours, funky decorative layers, and totally off the cuff servings.

Let your imagination run wild and meet with your local bakery. Be sure to ask to see photos of their most current work, not only for ideas, but to see how talented they are, afterall this is likely to be the most expensive and memorable cake you will ever buy.

The following are just a few ideas to get you started when considering how to wow your guests with your non-traditional wedding cake: (Mad Hatter, Fruit Infused, Cupcakes, Chocolate Cover Strawberry Bride and Groom)

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