I’m just curious what made you decide to use a cake topper or not? I can’t decide what I want to do. I’m only have a small single tier cake, semi naked with some fruit and maybe drizzle down the sides. We got engaged in the mountains so I thought about using a topper that has a mountain but it doesn’t really fit my Florida wedding, would it be odd? Or something geometric that ties into my centerpieces? Or should I just do a letter R for our last name? I’m worried about the size too since it’s only a single tier I don’t want the topper to over power the cake. Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.
It's really up to you. If you like the look the cake topper, go for it. We opted not to have one. Our cake is going to have royal icing flowers cascading down 1 side and the baker will just add more on top for no extra charge (cake comes with our venue package). We are trying to cut costs everywhere we can, and for us, a cake topper seemed unnecessary.
I got a cake topper that matched our Ketubah design for our wedding cake and a topper that matched the theme of his grooms gift for his grooms cake in lieu of an elaborate cake design. I wanted a clean and simple semi naked cake for our two tier wedding cake. His grooms cake isn’t an elaborate fondant custom built concoction either, it’s a messy iced simple no decor small 6 in with the topper as the fun decoration for him. The toppers we can use as home decor after. And we didnt want any sugar or fondant decorations because they typically get tossed.
We're doing one because we're doing a two tier cake with an 8" top tier. It's going to look kind of squatty without one. We're doing a garden wedding, and I wanted a keepsake topper that wasn't too trendy, so we went with this one. Neutral, but it fits us, the theme of our wedding, and the theme of our decor at home.
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November 2019
Katie ·
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I chose this cake topper and after the wedding I think I will cut the bottom off and glue the top to a wreath for our front door
I'm going without a cake topper. Mostly because I don't like any that I've seen.
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May 2022
Madison ·
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We are not doing a cake topper as the cake itself is going to be white with pressed dried flowers all over it and I don’t want a topper to take away from the beauty of the cake
A cake topper doesn't need to be something fancy- maybe try search words like cake "centrepiece" instead of cake topper if you want something more subtle or less traditional.
My parents' cake topper was sugar flowers, and they still have them on display in the silver cabinet 25 years later... your idea of monogram or mountain cake toppers is really nice because it can easily be put into a scrapbook, repurposed for a Christmas tree decoration, put in a frame etc.-- it can be nice to have a little something that lasts, even if you're not sold on having a flashy decoration.