Wedding Flowers

How To Assemble A Wedding Cake With Live Flowers

There are many ways to use flowers in a wedding, and not only to compose the wedding bouquets, the corsages, the boutonnieres, the table centerpieces, the chairs, the altar or the rest of the venue décor in general, but to adorn the bride’s hairstyle, wedding dress and wedding cake too.




If you love flowers and you consider that a flower theme wedding might be the greatest thing that you could do for your special day, then you should think of ways to assemble a wedding cake with live flowers. Using fresh natural flowers that are in season could be a great modality to obtain a more refreshing, appetizing, delicious, inviting, elegant, feminine and delicate look, and might also be an efficient way to cut the wedding expenses.

Instead of using all kinds of jewel or precious stone, beads, pearls, diamonds or crystals embroideries and pattern decorations for the wedding cake, you could use some fresh flowers to lift up the wedding atmosphere and make it more warm and comfortable and delightful for the wedding guests. Using fresh flowers for the wedding cake might reduce the costs substantially if you choose seasonal flowers.

You should look for those types of real wedding flowers that are in season of your wedding, because they are less expensive than any other types of imported or rare pretentious flowers. If you are wondering about how to assemble a wedding cake with live flowers, we can offer you a few suggestions in this matter.

Among the most popular types of seasonal wedding flowers used to arrange, embellish and adorn a wedding cake are: roses, calla lilies, tulips, orchids, gerbera daises, chrysanthemums, anemones, peonies, gardenias, daffodils, asters, dahlias, wildflowers, sunflowers, hibiscus, jasmines, marigolds, freesias or gladiolas. But how can you assemble a wedding cake with live flowers? Well, considering the wedding’s formality, location, season and theme, you can create different patterns or simple place the flowers in random ways, just to obtain an elegant, attractive and coherent look.

You can arrange the flowers yourself, following your own inspiration, imagination, vision and style. If the wedding cake is smaller and you want to make it look more impressive, taller and grandiose, you can place the flower blooms right between the tiers, in case they are separated. If they are stacked, you can surround the wedding cake with a flower chain, creating flower circles.

For the same illusion of height and extravagance, you can also place a real wedding flower bouquet on top of the cake, replacing a traditional classic bride and groom wedding cake topper. Other ways to assemble a wedding cake with live flowers is to create polka dot patterns or simple placing the flowers on each tier or the cake, in alternating styles.

The most popular styles of wedding cakes with real flowers are those that feature a cascading pattern. The flowers can be arranged in a curved cascade, or in a spiral cascade, draping down the wedding cake in a very chic, sleek and classy way.