Wedding cake toppers provide the final finishing touch to wedding cakes and for many brides their choice of topper is a personal one. You will find many choices available when it comes to toppers and your wedding cake designer should be able to guide you to the best choice in terms of the style and decoration of your wedding cake and the style of your wedding.
Here are just a few of the choices available to your for your cake topper:
Flowers are possibly the most popular choice and the cheapest. It is often the case that your florist will throw in small wired flowers for your wedding cake for free when you purchase all your other floral requirements from them.
Sugar flowers are another popular alternative to fresh ones, however, these can be very expensive and you could need a lot to decorate your cake, as you would often include flowers on the other tiers as well as on the top.
Just make sure that the flowers you use on your cake match those used in the rest of your floral decorations and your bouquets. A cake covered in exotic orchids will look odd if the rest of your flowers are roses and stocks.
Monogram cake toppers are the newest kids on the block and are fast becoming a popular choice. They are available in brushed metal and clear plastic versions and can include embellishments such as crystals. For a wedding cake, it is customary to use three letters – the brides initial, the grooms initial and your surname initial in the center. An alternative option is to use two letters representing your initials, some couples also choose to add the ‘&’ symbol as well in the center.
Traditional cake toppers are figurines of the bride and groom standing proud on the top of the cake. In recent years, there have been many whimsical variations on this which include figurines of the bride dragging the groom; the groom carrying the bride and versions which have the groom climbing up the cake tiers.
For many the traditional topper is still king and some even use their parents cake topper on their wedding cake which makes a lovely gesture and can count towards the bride’s ‘something borrowed’ or ‘something old’.
Whimsical cake toppers are modeled from clay and are designed using a photograph of the bride and groom to create the life like replicas of them. Some are very artistic and formal, whilst others are more whimsical and show them in a comical light. Often if one or both of the couple wear a uniform in their job, such as police work or the armed forces, then that is included in the model. The advantage with this type of topper is that they make wonderful keepsakes and can be on display in the home permanently.
Modern wedding cake toppers include elaborately beaded crowns, crests of feathers and crystals, heart shaped glass frames with a picture of the couple and simple brushed metal shapes.
Whatever your choice of wedding cake topper, make sure it will coordinate with your wedding cake and your wedding style? If you are having a wedding theme make sure you choose a topper that matches that also. If you cannot find a topper that is perfectly suited then you can either have something custom made or simply opt for flowers which will coordinate with any wedding style and theme.
