Wedding Flowers

Cascading Flowers On Wedding Cake

Flowers are so great, colorful, fragrant, vibrant, cheerful and naturally beautiful, charming and elegant that a bride can’t get enough of using them in a wedding.




Because they are so meaningful, spiritual, stylish and feminine, brides usually decide to incorporate flowers into their wedding cakes too. This is not a brand new thing to do, brides are doing it for centuries and still can’t seem to get bored with this splendid unique decorative wedding “element”. When planning a flowered wedding cake, one must think twice on the final aspect of the cake.

Once you’re on this route you have to know exactly what you want. What pattern, what flowers, what colors, what designs and what motifs you should pick for your wedding cake. Among the most popular types of wedding cake with flowers is the cascading flower type of wedding cake.

This design still seems to be in vogue this year, more and more couples deciding to follow this pattern. There is nothing more romantic, elegant, stylish, attractive, delicate and yet dramatic than a river or a bouquet of cascading flowers on a wedding cake. When browsing for pictures of wedding cakes decorated with flowers, the majority show us cascading flowers on the wedding cake designs.

Depending on the amplitude and character of your wedding, you can opt for a straight cascade of flowers draping down the top of the cake all the way down on to the final bottom tier of the wedding cakes, or you can choose something more unique, unconventional and more striking, such as a curved cascade of flowers. You can do this at home, as long as you have some basic skills and aptitudes of handling and decorating a cake, and the necessary equipment.

Many couples are choosing to ornate and embellish the wedding cake in their kitchen, with their own hands and their own artistic skills, imagination and vision. This is a great opportunity to test your creativeness and free your imagination. Among the most popular types of wedding flowers that we’ve seen in cascading patterns on weddings cakes are orchids, roses, daises, peonies, hydrangeas, calla lilies, star gazer lilies, iris, lilies of the valley, jasmines, gerbera daises, asters, chrysanthemums or freesias. But you can choose any other type of real fresh flower that you like. If you are not that into natural wedding flowers on wedding cakes, opt for edible flower confections.

They can be made from fondant, icing, gum paste, butter cream, marzipan, sugar or chocolate and can imitate almost any type of real flower. You can start the cascade from the top of the cake or from the penultimate tier all the way down. You can spread some petals one ach layer and on the wedding cake table for a more abundant, fancy and nature inspired landscape.