Cake Toppers – The Crowning Glory
Now that you know the design and flavors of your cake, it’s time to decide what you want to have on the top of your cake. Of course there are the typical Bride & Groom figurines, but nowadays there is so much more. Enamel Crowns, Crystal hearts, etc.
If you both have a good sense of humor you can find cake top figurines that are fun filled such as the Bride feeding cake to the Groom.
Or if you’re having a beach wedding you can find a cake topper in that theme.
Crystal covered Monograms and other designs have become very popular to add some sparkle and personalization to the top of your cake.
For those of you who need some inspiration and want to DIY, I hope these ideas will get your creative juices working:
1) Use things that are associated with you as a couple. It doesn’t have to be a cake topper per se, but you can repurpose it if it speaks to you as a couple. If you travel a lot, look at favors that are mini suitcases that can be placed on the top of the cake, for example.
2) Champagne grapes are tiny grape clusters that can be incorporated into some flowers at the top and put on each layer of the cake. Or you can put ribbon around the bottom of each layer and a cluster of champagne grapes.
3) Check out flea markets and garage sales (and mom or grandma) for old fashioned broaches. Sterilize them with some rubbing alcohol and mix them up and insert them into the sides of the cake. Make a cluster of flowers for the top with a broach standing up. Experiment. I’m sure when you start looking at jewelry with new eyes you will be inspired.
4) Did you get engaged in Paris or going there for your honeymoon? There are 3-D paper cut out Eiffel Towers that would work great on top of a cake. Actually, there are miniature Eiffel Towers that would work too. You need to be careful about the weight of whatever you use. You don’t want it sinking in to the cake. To avoid this, if you are a DIY Wedding Cake bride, a round flat white plastic disk can be purchased in the cake decorating department of a craft store which can be placed on top of the cake to support whatever you are putting there. It can be disguised by frosting over it and removed before cutting the cake (make sure you tell whoever is in charge of distributing the cake that it’s there).
5) A cute box in a whimsical shape can be used.
6) If you love the look of sugar flowers, but wouldn’t even dream of trying to make them, you can buy them online at Sugar Flower Shop . They will even custom design any flower you want if you can’t find what you’re looking for on their website. You won’t believe the assortment they offer. It can make your cake look very expensive even though it’s home made.
I received the following email from one of our customers. She inspired this article so I thought you can see how creative brides can be:
“Hi Eileen, nice job on your blog – wish I’d seen some of those tips before my wedding last August! But I’ll certainly forward it on to my son and daughter-in-law-to-be (they’re getting married in October).
Attached is a picture of my cake with the Adirondack chair favors I bought from you. (We had hydrangeas on the tables.) Linda.”
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