The Bride’s Heart

The wedding cake, in all its glory, is the center piece of your top table. Choosing from the immense variety of wedding toppers as the finishing touch to the cake is not always an easy task. It will be featured in a couple of wedding photos as well.

There are numerous different types of cake which you can choose from and you will have to take into account the design and size. However, the decoration of the cake and what you decide to have as a topper should be representative of the two of you in any way you think appropriate for the day. Here are some details of various types and themes which may give you some ideas for your cake. I hope they will not confuse you even more.

The Traditional Style

When you decide to opt for the traditional style it is likely to be small wedding figurines of the bride and groom in wedding attire surrounded with horseshoes and gold bands and turtle doves.

The figures could depict the groom carrying the bride over the threshold or the pair of them driving off in the honeymoon car, tin cans rattling behind them as they go.

How about a romantic surrounding with rose petals and gold and silver hearts as the bride and groom figurines are posed in a kiss or huddled together? Often these feature the symbol of the circle which signifies unity and eternal love.

Butterflies are often part of the decoration as well because typically they represent rebirth and transformation, a theme which is beautifully symbolic of your new life together as a married couple.

The Lenox Wedding Cake Topper

This is a classical one. For example the “Forever Yours” bride and groom figurine is at home on top of a wedding cake and later in a collection of keepsakes on the family mantle. The delicately detailed pair dances together on a cobblestone platform below a pointed lattice arch. The bride wears a full-skirted gown and veil, while the groom wears a dapper tuxedo. Both feature platinum accents on their wedding finery, detailed down to tiny porcelain rings. Crafted from fine china, these pieces come with a protective, gleaming glaze. Definitely an attention grabber!

Humorous Cake Toppers

You may decide to choose a funny wedding cake topper if that reflects your personality better. These come in many forms and quite a few of them show the bride having the upper hand, or should I say, wearing the trousers, but not literally of course. If you are both mobile phone addicts how about the bride and groom in all their wedding attire both chatting on the phone (and not necessarily to each other)? Or the groom trying to run away on a different tier of the cake?

The Personalized Wedding Cake Topper

This can be anything which is particularly relevant to the happy couple. For example, you may both be fanatics on motorbikes so it would not be at all surprising for your wedding cake to be sporting a miniature harley davidson cake topper with “just married” on the registration plates. NASCAR themes are becoming more and more popular too and feature the black and white checkered finishing flag. Imagine any favorite sport or hobby you share and you could use it as a theme.

Another popular style are military cake toppers which relate to the careers of the bride and groom. For example, if the groom is a Marine, the male figurine will be wearing best dress uniform. Don’t forget the stars and stripes!

African American and interracial wedding cake toppers with a black bride and a white groom or vice versa are also available nowadays. Or you can find other decorations reflecting your ethnic heritage.

A Style to Suit Your Venue

You might choose your wedding topper to suit the venue you have picked for your wedding. For instance, if your wedding is taking place on a beautiful beach in some exotic location, the bride and groom figurines could be bikini and shorts clad on top of a beach wedding cake. You may decide that dolphins and or palm trees are more relevant as a background in such a setting as well.

Many brides and grooms choose a romantic castle as a venue for their wedding and the reception can be held outdoors in the gardens or park if the weather will allow it. You can have a castle wedding cake to go with it. And a Cinderella cake topper may just be the finishing touch for a dream wedding.

The choices today are definitely much different than years past. From the plain, plastic bride and groom to the exclusive and expensive handmade models. It does not really matter what type of couple you are, with the wide choice of wedding toppers available, there is sure to be something appropriate for your special day which will make your top table look interesting and catch the eye of all of the guests at your wedding. Now just enjoy it!

There are many super wedding cake ideas available both on line and at independent high street bakeries. If you are lucky enough to have a free rein on your spending then go for it, but otherwise try to keep within your budget. Your mom and your long lost aunt will be there putting forward their suggestions and offering you all sorts of advice about how your cake should be traditional, but at the end of the day, this is your wedding, and it’s your cake!

Here are just some of the options open to you when choosing your cake.

First of all, your wedding cake really should be color co-ordinated with everything else about your reception and its theme. It catches the eye of everyone attending the reception and will appear on most of the wedding photographs. Therefore, along with matching everything else, it should be a sign of your personal style and taste.

So, if chocolate is your thing, then a chocolate wedding cake it should be! In milk or plain varieties, as a whole cake, a cluster of truffles or a mountain of profiteroles, the only concern here is keeping it away from your beautiful dress.

Like your mom and aunt, you may well feel that a traditional style cake is more your style, rich in fruit and topped with crisp white icing. These usually come decorated with silver horseshoes, wedding bells and a miniature bride and groom placed sweetly on the top of the cake. As an alternative to the bride and groom decoration, if you and your partner share a particular hobby, say for example, motorcycling, you could have a unique theme adorning the top of your cake.

You should also consider whether or not your cake will be the only dessert on the table. If this is the case, one kind of cake is not going to please all the guests. This is where a multi layered cake of different fillings is a choice you may wish to make. In this way you could have a traditional fruit, icing topped cake at the bottom, followed by a jam and cream filled sponge sandwich styled cake as the middle tier, and finished off with a light and fruity cheesecake on the top. Not only will this cake taste absolutely fabulous, but it will be full of colour and a major talking point for years to come.

The choices available to you as ideas for your wedding cake are endless, but just remember, it’s your day and, of course, it should be your say!

Are you one of those people who just adore chocolate?  Is your idea of heaven, being curled up on the sofa with a good book to read or a DVD to watch, whilst opening and savoring the aroma of a big and beautiful box of chocolates? Are you at your happiest when you can indulge without having to share your goodies with anyone else? Why is it that us women feel like this about chocolate?  We have no idea why, and don’t really care why …… all we know is that we do!

I would like to suggest that there is help at hand for our addictions, but there’s not, so let’s just go on enjoying to our hearts content!

There is, however, good news for all brides-to-be with regard to your favorite temptation.

There’s a range of chocolate wedding cakes available on the market to make your special day even more delicious and pleasurable.  OMG, I hear you say!  This is because up until now, you have not really been able to envisage your Wedding Day without at least some form of chocolate on the table, but you were unsure of just how you were going to go about including your favorite food on this particular occasion.

Chocolate wedding cakes come in a variety of different options.  Equally as stylish and just as sophisticated as the traditional fruit variety of wedding cake, you may choose anything from a cheesecake enhanced with chocolate to a whole cake made of truffles.    The consistencies are based primarily on the ingredients and the various blends of chocolate used.  There are cakes made from milk, plain and white chocolates, or for total bliss, a combination of each of these ingredients will have your mouth watering – yes, it is right now, just thinking about it!

I offer just one piece of advice though. On the big day, you will not be free to munch away without regard for dribbles down your clothes. Even though this may happen on an ordinary day when you are wearing normal clothes, it really would not look good for the bride to be blushing because she has chocolate all down the front of her wedding attire.  So for this reason it is necessary to exercise great care whilst taking delight in eating your chocolate cake.   (I do not believe I mentioned chocolate and exercise there in the same sentence!).  Joking apart, make sure you have napkins strategically placed to protect your wedding dress and catch any crumbs as they fall.

Chocolate in several forms is a customary dessert found in many homes and on menus in restaurants the world over.  Therefore, there is no reason at all why, if chocolate is your thing you should not have your wedding cake made of it. After all, you only intend getting married once, so cast off the idea of a traditional wedding cake, regardless of the comments your mom and long lost aunt have to make, and go for it.  You will be glad you did, and so will they when they have a taste of it!