Wedding Flowers

Wedding Cake Flowers

When shopping for flowers for the wedding bouquets, table centerpieces, corsages, buttonholes, aisle, altar, chairs, doors or any other décor arrangements, brides have to consider the flowers for the wedding cake too, in case if they’re planning a romantic summer outdoor wedding.




More and more modern brides choose go with natural fresh flowers for the decoration of the wedding cake, because nothing can compare to the natural fascinating beauty, fragrance, naturalness, charm and elegance of the flowers. You can plan a whole wedding using a floral theme or motif. If your wedding is going to take place in a botanical garden or in a Victorian English garden, in an open filed, in a country side, on a mountain, in a public park or on beach or island, you should definitely consider using fresh vibrant colored wedding cake flowers.

You should be careful, however, because most of the real wedding flowers that we love can be toxic, poisoning or can create allergies, sensitiveness or rashes if they’re introduced directly into the cake. Consult first with a specialized florist that can give you a few advices in finding the most suitable non toxic wedding cake flowers that you can safely use buy. If you like a certain type of natural flower that can be dangerous used on wedding cakes, you can buy special supports that can hold the stem of the flower above the cake. Among the most suitable types of natural fresh and fashionable wedding cake flowers that you can use are orchids, garden roses, tulips, gerbera daises, chrysanthemums, sunflowers, daffodils, lavender, hibiscus, gladiolas, peonies, calla lilies, asters, hydrangeas, magnolias, cherry blossoms, marigolds, zinnias, yarrows, straw flowers, wax flowers, cornflowers, pansies, iris, lilies of the valley, star gazer lilies, Asian lilies, snapdragons, cosmos, blue bells, etc.

You can arrange these natural flowers in different ways and patterns. Use vibrantly yellow, pink, brown or orange daises and create a playful, cheerful and creative polka dot pattern all over the cake, or use sunflowers, roses, peonies, orchids, hydrangeas or daffodils in draping styles, cascading from the top of the cake all the way down right to the bottom layer of the cake. For a more impressive and grandiose look, place some blooms in between the layers of the cake or atop the cake, as a romantic wedding cake flower topper.

Apart from these types of natural wedding cake flowers, you can choose artificial silk, dried, origami, paper made, ribbon or beaded flowers for a more cosmopolitan, retro, vintage, antique or funky wedding, or you can use edible or non edible flowers. Those edible are usually made from gum paste, fondant, chocolate, marzipan, icing, sugar or butter cream. They can give the wedding cake a more realistic, stunning, delicious, artistic, refined and unique look. You can buy pre made edible wedding flowers or other decorations from any bakery and use them to ornate a simple wedding cake at home, following your own imagination, vision and patterns.