Wedding Flowers

Flowers In Wedding Cakes

Wedding cakes are the items in the displaying of a wedding that carry with themselves the symbol of supporting and sharing. This symbol is expressed by the gesture of cutting the cake, the one that comes with the image of a bride, now pronounced wife, holding the knife, her hand supported by the one of her groom, by now husband already, and followed by the feeding each other with a piece of the cake’s slice. Because of its symbolic meaning, wedding cake has been and still is regarded at with great deal of importance. This is the reason why bakers try to find the most unique ways to decorate the cake in the manner that appeals to the wedding couples both from the edible point of view and design.

I have a friend working in the wedding cakes field, but she is responsible only with the details regarding the delivery of such cakes. However, she has seen many times how thoroughly and sometimes frustrating such a job is, especially the part that requires decorations and steadiness of a 3 or 4 tiered wedding cake. The decorators are the most challenged persons in the bakery houses, their work has to reflect exactly the desire of the customers, who many times leave the inspiration in the hands of decorators, giving only a small hint of what should their wedding cake look like.

The most interesting part in regard to the decoration seems to be the creation of hand crafted flowers in wedding cakes, the ones that look so indistinguishable from the real ones, the flowers that can be preserved for a lifetime (due to their sugarly structure) as an added element to the whole chain of memories to belong to your wedding day. My friend told me that there are so many couples who don’t even have a clue on how their wedding cake should be, either to be decorated with fresh flowers or have artificial ones, either to have that color of icing or the other one.

But the cake decorators and designers are there to assist the wedding couples in finding ideas, many of the ideas being strongly supported by their experience, in this way offering advices on how flowers in wedding cakes affect or not the taste of the icing, as there are fresh flowers that are not supposed to be used as cake decorations. All these details are known to the cake decorators, since flowers, as beautiful as they look being used fresh on the wedding cake can have in their pistils some sort of pollen which can be dangerous once swallowed. Their duty is to inform the couples about the possibility of using different types of fresh blooms that even if they are desired by the couples to be used as the elements to continue the series of floral wedding decoration, they can be however poisonous.

There is the option of using artificial flowers in the decoration of the wedding cakes, be they sugar made or silk made, they still resemble beautifully to the real ones, so be sure that the aspect of your wedding cake will not have to suffer in case you decide for the cake decorators to use other style of blooms than the fresh ones.