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The wedding cake is something that may take some deciding to choose. Many brides and grooms believe that this aspect of a wedding reception needs to be chosen carefully in order to achieve the right kind of classiness. Mostly couples love using real wedding cake flowers to decorate their cake. On the other hand, fake wedding cake flowers can also be used as wedding cake flowers for certain reason such as allergies, sanitation and the likes. 

Wedding Cake Flowers, Made With Fresh Flowers

Wedding cake flowers can really be made with fresh live flowers with the right way of cleaning and meticulous attention to its storage. As long as the flowers are available wedding cake makers will readily agree to the use fresh flowers for the wedding cake. Fresh wedding cake flowers will look doubly nice on the cake as well as coordinate well with the reception flower arrangements and may be even with the wedding flower bouquet of the bride.

Some great suggestions for wedding cake flowersare chrysanthemums, lily of the valley, gerberas, roses and tulips. The chrysanthemums, roses and gerbera can individually be used to mark the separation between each tier of the wedding cake. An example of this would be red roses in between each layer of cake for a three tier cake. The wedding cake flowers can also be used not as a separator for each tier but also as a decoration for the cake. Lilies of the valley do well as a focal point for each tier of the cake. The flower can be placed on the topmost tier of a three or more layer cake and then subsequent flowers can be attached to each other with a fondant vine design. The colors of the wedding cake flowers should coordinate with the motif of the wedding as well as complement the colors used in the wedding cake.

Fresh wedding cake flowerssuch as gerberas or hyacinths can also be individually attached to the cake sides in a polka dot pattern. It is usually the smaller varieties of flowers that suit this kind of wedding cake flower arrangement. Bunches of small flowers such as hyacinths, cornflowers and smaller varieties of mums can also be placed in strategic places of the wedding cake. Using different colors that complement each other or colors that are similar to each other will help to bring out the best of a plain off white wedding cake.

Wedding cake flowers are not limited to those suggested above. So many other flowers also can be used for the wedding cake. It is best to take one’s time in choosing whichever flower is to be used as wedding cake flowers to avoid continually changing one’s mind even when the cake decision is already finished.

There are so many different things that you need to take care of when it comes to your wedding, but what about your wedding cake? You do have the option of making your own wedding cake, and not only would this save you some money but it will be a lot of fun too. Especially if you are interested in baking and cake making and that sort of thing, making your own wedding cake may be a great idea.

How To Do A Wedding Cake

So if you have decided that you do in fact want to make your own wedding cake, you need to start by deciding what sort of cake you want to make. What style do you want the cake to be and what color, what size? These are questions that you are going to have to answer before you can even get started on your cake.

Now you start with the support of the cake, which is the bottom. This has to be sturdy, just as with the foundation on a house, otherwise your cake is not going to be properly supported. The next step is the structure of the cake. To make dowel supports for a tier on the cake, you want to carefully push a ¼-inch thick dowel into the center of the bottom tier and mark the height of the cake on this dowel.

Another issue that you are going to have to figure out is the decorations that you want to use on the cake. You can pick and choose from a variety of decorations for toppings on the cake and around the sides. Just make sure that you stick with the same general color palette. You don’t want to start mixing and matching with too many different colors because then the cake is going to look messy.

Now that you are finished making the wedding cake, make sure that you choose the perfect wedding cake topper to go on top of it, just to add that finishing touch that is going to make it exquisite.

It will feel really good knowing that you made your own cake, but just ensure that you leave enough time to do it because this is not the quickest task that you are going to have to deal with for your wedding and you are going to need to have enough time to make your cake if this is something that you want to do.