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Whats on top of your cake?

posted 2 years ago in Reception
  • poll: Will you have a cake topper or flowers on top of your cake?
    Cake Topper : (11 votes)
    39 %
    Flowers : (9 votes)
    32 %
    Other, I'll explain below : (8 votes)
    29 %
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    Miss Hot Sauce    3/13/2010   Cypress, TX

    I am debating whether to do a cake topper or flowers for our wedding cake. I originally though of just doing flowers but while we were at a bridal show my mom and friend thought that was off and not "fun". I don't care for the bride/groom toppers. If I did a topper it would have to be the last name inital or our mongram or something.

    So what are you doing on top of your cake?

     
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    kara    September 26, 2009   Northern VA/Cincinnati OH

    I'm doing a cake topper with just petals on the table.    You really don't have to do a topper though if you don't want one.  Or, I don't know what your cake looks like but could you do flowers along the side of the cake or the bottom or something and then have a caketopper on the top? Just an idea! :)

     
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    RoddyBride09    September 5, 2009   Bethlehem, PA

    The top of our cake will be an artist's scene (painter's pallette, brushes, tubes). It's very different but it explains a little bit of us both.

     
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    chelseamorning    November 1, 2008   Washington, DC/Atlanta

    We had flowers. The design of our cake would have looked busy if we had had a topper. Also, I couldn't really find a topper I totally loved. I am very happy with the flowers we had!

     
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    attybride    9/25/10   Boston, MA

    I'm thinking of doing a monogram cake topper, but I haven't decided yet.

     
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    amssmile    09/09/09   Switzerland

    Here is mine I love it!  You can get it custom made hair, dress, flowers, and colors.  She is amazing you can contact her on Etsy.com.  Her company is Mudcards.  They were only 45-$55.  It take 4 weeks and you only pay for it if you like it when she is done.

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    bruschetta    August 29, 2009   Philadelphia

    A custom bird cake topper by Etsy seller SueBeeHB -- can't wait to share pictures of it with the hive!

     
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    sminerva21    September 26, 2009   Chicago, IL/wedding in Upstate, NY

    Nothing! We were going for a very simple, modern look, so we don't have a topper.

     
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    Karma007    10/10/2009   Bay Area

    If any, a simple monogram done in fondant on our chocolate fudge cake, as seen in a recent Knot issue.

     
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    Mandyrosy    September 19, 2009   Montana

    Fruit! We're having a chocolate cake topped with berries. Yum!

     
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    MissClaire    26/09   Brazil

    I found the perfect Lladró figurine on eBay for a good price and had to have it. It has some flaws, but I love it anyway.

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    Jessie516    May 16, 2009   Ann Arbor, MI

    Flowers...well, kind of...

    I asked our "friend-or" who made our cake to put flowers on the top.  *White* flowers that matched our bouquets. Despite providing her with a sketch AND the flowers themselves, she chose to put a huge pink gerbera daisy on the top of the cake.  I was pretty unhappy about it, but when you get a friend (my mom's best friend from HS) instead of a paid vendor, then I think you have less control over stuff like that.

     
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    coralray24    09/26/2009   Tucson, AZ

    We are having a fondant bow...because the cake is going to look like gifts.

    But after making this decision, we fell in love with the Mii cake toppers, and bought those to put on the side of the table.

     
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    Bridebella    October 17, 2009   Knoxville, TN

    My grandma is giving us the cake topper from her and my grandpa's wedding. I'm really excited to have a vintage and meaningful cake topper!

     
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    Miss Hot Sauce    3/13/2010   Cypress, TX

    @ Jessie516 - Aw! I love gerbera daisies (have some in my garden even).....but if I saw that on top of my cake instead of the roses or poms that are actually in the wedding, I think I would have been a little upset too. ;)

    @Bridebella - What a nice detail and addition to your wedding!

     
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    bobbypinpearls    July 17, 2010   Arkansas

    We're going to have two cute little birds-

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    and probably flowers on the others. We're going to have the tiers separated and set on their on cake stands! kinda like this

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    Pelikila    August 30, 2008   Houston, TX

    We had chocolate leaves on top of our cake. They also were placed strategically on the different tiers of the cake as well.

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    @Pelikila: Yum-o! That cake is gorg!

    We won't have a cake topper for the wedding cake. Just some lovely scroll work with our monogram in the center. But I'm looking for a topper for the groom's cake (us playing football!).

     
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    nybride09    9/19/09   New York, NY

    our cake is very simple and modern so we're using a flower topper to jazz it up some (and tie it in with the centerpieces)

     

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