Wedding Flowers

Flowers and wedding cakes

Flowers and wedding cakes have or can have a lot of things in common especially if we decide to plan a flower theme for the wedding. Flowers can add more beauty, elegance, style, naturalness, innocence, color, freshness, sensuality, femininity, delicacy and festivity to any thing they touch.




So why not take advantage of these natural qualities that flowers have in general, and use them for beautifying your wedding cake! Many couples of today are choosing to decorate the wedding cake with fresh flowers or with other types of flowers available for wedding cakes, such as those edible or silk flowers.

Deciding over the most suitable type of flower for your wedding cake can only depend on the wedding budget, on the formality of the wedding, on the style, season, location and character or amplitude of the event. In order to satisfy your guest’s tastes – because this is all about, you must find out what they like. But before or after you do that, you must pay attention to the following list of toxic wedding flowers that you must avoid using or inserting directly onto your wedding cake.

If you want to have a quiet, nice and relaxed wedding, without any unwanted incidents, then you’d better stay ways from calla lilies, hydrangeas, hyacinths, tulips, carnations (pink), snowdrops, arum lilies, bird of paradise, lilies of the valley or jasmines, because these flowers are known to be toxic and can cause serious irritations, allergies or any other harm or damages to your wedding attendants and to you.

So, if you like one of these flowers and you do want to use it in your wedding cake, you’d better use some plastic holders that will protect the cake’s layers from the flower stems. Among the most popular types of flowers that you can use to decorate your wedding cake without risking anything, are: roses, tiger lilies, petunias, daises, peonies and orchids.

All these types of real wedding flowers can be incorporated or inserted directly in the wedding cake without any problem. If you are interested in finding out how edible flowers and wedding cakes go together, here is a short list of the most common types of flowers that are edible and therefore suitable for beautifying your cake: cornflowers, roses, pansies, nasturtiums, orange blossoms, cherry blossoms, apple blossoms, oregano flowers or thymes.

We advise you though to do a vaster research on what types of flowers are safe to use in a wedding cake just to make sure that no on will get hurt on your wedding day. There are many types of wedding cakes with flowers or many styles and patterns that you can use. Cascading flowers or draperies of flowers on wedding cakes are the most popular, as well as those flowers placed between the tiers of the cake or surrounding the cake.