Although you will still find basic clean lines on wedding cakes, many couples are adding texture to their design and spicing it up with unexpected twists!

Today brides and grooms are embracing not only color, but wedding cakes full of fun patterns!  The flavors and styles are all over the board.  No longer do you simply find a bakery for your wedding cake, if you are looking for one of these elaborate cakes you need an artist.  You need someone who can bring out the life in the cake and reflect your personality.  Each layer could be a different flavor with polka dots on half the cake and stripes and designs on the other.

How did you make your cake stand out?  Did you go to your bakery with a vision or did you let the artist design her own style?

Source: Manifest Vegan, Isabel Lawerence

There is definitely a cupcake craze going on in the wedding industry!  Do you serve the traditional delicious wedding cake, or do you you get creative with a variety of flavors and colors of cupcakes in the shape of a cake?  I came across this mini cake, three tiered cupcake  wedding extravaganza. A unique mixture of trendy cupcakes in the shape of tradition to serve your guests!

Source: The Kitchen

When your sweet tooth starts craving a dessert in the evening, I encourage all of you brides-to-be to  consider savoring a Skinny Cow dessert guilt-free!  While planning and celebrating your upcoming wedding, there are numerous occasions when delicious sweets begin to tempt you away from your strict bridal boot camp!  These ice cream cones, sandwiches or bars are low in fat and only 140 calories!  (Did I mention that they taste heavenly?!)

I love when brides get creative with desserts such as creating an alternative wedding cake with food they love.  I think the picture above is a perfect example of how taking a simple ice cream sandwich with a little imagination and turning it into a beautiful centerpiece at your wedding or bridal shower.

Pass around a variety of flavors at your wedding and let your guests decide whether they want a vanilla, chocolate, strawberry or mint-flavored ice cream sandwich!  Recreate this Skinny Cow wedding cake as a centerpiece at your next bridal shower. All women love desserts that will not add to their waistline!

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A unique way to decorate the tables at your wedding reception along with serving delicious cakes to your guests is creating small  individual cakes for each table.   Find fun cake stands to add height to the cake, while decorating with a different style for each cake with a similar color scheme!  Use these as centerpieces and double them as table numbers like the picture on the bottom from Cakes to Celebrate!

One of my favorite ideas if you choose to use these as centerpieces is to choose 5 different cake flavors and spread out the different cakes and flavors around the room.  When it is dessert time your guests will be encouraged to walk around the room and find their favorite flavor while chatting with your friends and family at each table, getting to know each other better!

Adding different heights to the cakes will make the centerpiece more interesting.  Also by doubling these as your cake, centerpieces and table numbers you will end up saving money by not having separate items for each.  In addition, you will save money on cake cutting fees from venues!

What are some of your ideas for using cakes as centerpieces?

Sources: Amazing Cake, Eli Silva Photography, Kristine Pringle Photograph, Edible Recipes

If you have a special quote or saying that has always been special to your heart…why hide it in the back of a program?  I suggest proudly displaying it, like the pictures below, on your cake!  Make the saying the centerpiece of your wedding so none of your guests can miss it!

Leave me a comment with what you wrote on your cake that personalized your wedding cake!

Source: Life as a New Mrs. , Manassas Cakery , About the Cake, Maisie Fantasie,