wedding cake decoration ideas

[m brown]

The season is coming, please post your favorite styles and flavors of wedding cakes.
I will be freelancing this season with wedding cakes and biscotti favors.
Can we share sources?
example, sugarflowersplus.com has beautiful flowers of gumpaste. I don't grow my fresh flowers for cakes and with three children and a working hubby, I don't have time to make sugar ones either.
Let's share our best sources.
Thanks.

I'm getting married in July so this is a hot topic for me. I literally have no baking experience(yet) so I'm having a pro do our cake. We decided on a rectangular base with two circular cakes for the first and second layer. Instead of a "bride and groom" cake topper, we're topping it with two champagne flutes(filled). The second layer will have an oasis with fresh pansies and the top and bottom will be decorated w/ sugared pansies--colors are yellow and lavender. Any other fun suggestions would be great. Very casual outdoor wedding but the food is very important to me. Still can't decide what to serve for dinner...trying to stay w/ a "BBQ" theme but need to jazz it up a bit.

Whoopsy, almost forgot the most important thing...flavor!!! Lemon cake with raspberry filling and a lemon buttercream frosting. Hello summer!



[This message has been edited by missyk1999 (edited January 12, 2000).]

A former employer of mine got married last year and she and her fella decided to "make" each other for their cake topper. They agreed that it couldn't be over 5" tall and they didn't show each other before-hand. It was hilarious as she dressed an Elmer Fudd doll up in black leather(he's a musician) and she was a pregnant-Yankees-cap-wearing-chef-with-an-attitude. He actually did a clay sculpture of her...nude!!! Everyone loved it!

[m brown]

For my cake I had a dear friend make a chocolate chip sponge with cinnamon butter cream covered with rolled fondant. ribbon and fresh flowers adorned the three tier cake and I made the bride and groom of marzipan. They were dressed as we were. The wedding was in Feb so the heavy flavors were appropriate.