Dec 17, 2009

Wedding Cake Decorations

Wedding Cake Decorations and More
By Mike Bunata

cake decorations weddingThere are many avenues you can take when creating a work of art through a wedding decorations for cakes. Although the cake does have to taste good, the success of a wedding cake is all about how it looks.

All of us have heard the saying "it is all about the presentation", well that is very true in this case. wedding decorations for cakes are more creative today than they were ten, fifteen, and even twenty years ago. The bride use to be the only topic after the wedding but that is not the case any longer.

wedding cake decoratingThe talk now is about the wedding decorations for cakes, how the cake was decorated, and how creative it was. We have turned away from the more traditional look of the wedding cake to a look that reflects our personalities, ideas, and creativity. Wedding cake decorations come in different styles, sizes, and materials. You can make decorations for your wedding cake out of just about anything you can think of.

Your decorations can be made out of edible products such as fondants, gumpaste, glazes and candy pearl beads and even edible luster dust to give that shimmering look. With fondants and gumpaste, you can create any shape, size, and design you want. You can also color the icing to incorporate your wedding colors in to the cake.

wedding cake decorationCake decorations have come a long way from the typically traditional version we have always seen. Don't worry if you are more of a traditional person then you can certainly still have that and even improve on the more traditional look with various types of wedding cake toppers and even a prop such as an attached bridge for the more glamorous look for even the most traditional cakes. Now days you can even have moving parts on your wedding cake. Your cake can rotate and possibly have some moving parts on it.

You can find a good decorator to fulfill your dream wedding cake. If you desire a wilder version of themes, you are more than likely to find someone to accommodate your needs. More vivid colors are available for the icing with many different techniques of applications for decorating a cake. The options are endless with wedding cake decorations, for instance you can have your cake airbrushed with all kinds of colors with any design or scene you like.

wedding cake decorationsYou can have the tiniest of details for your design. If you love nature, you can even use live flowers on the cake for your decorations. They can be positioned just right with as many or few as you want. Flowers do not always have to be made of sugar even though you can eat them and they taste better.

But the look of using live flowers can also take your breath away with the vibrant colors of each petal. There are many patterns and trimming effects to bring out any design on your cake. Even wedding cakes fall within the different seasons and themes of weddings.

They can be decorated to suite all themes for any holiday, seasons and memorable times in your life. The cake decoration can reflect the place you were engaged or met your future spouse. It can be made to look like a particular place or interest you both might have. You imagination is the only thing that sets your wedding cake apart from any other.

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