Do you have to have flowers on the cake!?

I'm not having real flowers on my cake..just some accenting with the frosting.

No no of course not....im doing cupcakes, and we are doing a tablescape with them, we have cut up logs, gathered large pieces of rock and stuff, are we are making an outdoor scene stretched over a table, with the cupcakes on top of everything No flowers for us!

I'm not for sure I want flowers on the cake either.

Of course not! I'm not having any flowers on mine because I think they look kinda random. Here's my inspiration. There will be a navy ribbon at the base of each tier. The topper is a porecelain gardenia with peacock feathers peeking out. But wasn't it you that wants the awesome blue and white cake?!? There were no flowers and it was beautiful!

It's so not necessary!! I think one of the reasons it's become so popular is because it's a relatively inexpensive decoration for cakes. Compared to things like gum-paste, fondant, and sugar flowers, it's just way cheaper.

No flowers on our cake either. We are having a fall wedding and will have small leaves cascading down the cake.

Yea, I do want that blue and white cake--except it'll be green and white I'm still trying to figure it out. I want that cake, but I don't know if FH will go for it.

You don't have to have flowers...or try cupcakes.

No, you do not have to have flowers on your cake. Flowers on cakes as a standard is fairly new, actually. One didn't see this very much prior to the 80s, when cakes pretty much had decorative frosting and buttercream flowers. Fresh flowers on cakes exploded on the wedding scene because it was "new," "different," and "unique." Sort of like fondant is today. 20 years from now brides might be asking if they HAVE to have cakes with fondant! Funny how the unique and different becomes the common, huh?

Anyway, this is our cake. The flowers on top will be made of frosting, and will resemble carnations, actually, and will be in blue with other, smaller flowers in yellow.

No flowers on ours!

No flowers were on my cake.

I'm just getting my comp back tonight... so hoping to get some pictures posted.

No flowers on my cake!

Actually I'm not a flower kinda person so the only flowers in the entire wedding are what's growing outside (sinces it's an outdoor wedding), my bouquet, the GM and FS boutonnieres, BM's corsages and MOH small bouquet.

Of course you don't have to have flowers on your cake! It's your wedding!!! Do whatever you want.

We're having fresh raspberries on top--just as another idea.