Monday 5 August 2013

Good Enough to Eat – Transforming a Wedding Cake with Flowers

At Tolly's we specialise in creating spectacular floral arrangements for your special day, including reception flowers, beautiful bouquets, buttonholes and corsages. Based in Newmarket Suffolk, we design wedding flowers for Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk weddings and have a wide range of unique finishing touches to make your day really special.

Wedding Flowers Essex  – Find out more about our creative designs for wedding flowers for Essex, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire weddings.

In this article we will be looking at cake decorations and how beautiful cakes can look when decorated with flowers.

Decorating Your Wedding Cake With Flowers


Using flowers to decorate your cake offers a highly unique and personal touch. This is ideal for couples that want their special day to stand out from other weddings. Flowers will create a wow factor that is difficult to achieve through icing alone and can make a big difference to a fairly simple or even plain cake. Flowers can be chosen to match the colour and type of those used throughout the wedding day – taking details from the bride's bouquet or reception venue. There are many designs to choose from and here is a selection of our favourite cakes that we have decorated with flowers in recent years.

Contemporary Chic


This design uses simple, square cakes with flat, cream icing and purple swirls. The cakes are adorned with purple anemones and cream roses, both with open buds. The cake sits on a square plate, also decorated with purple swirls. A crisp, white tablecloth is all that's needed to set off this stunningly simple style that is very modern and effortlessly chic and is suitable at any time of the year.

Traditional Spring

This style sees cream and pink roses with fully opened flowers layered between round cakes with white icing. Cream and pink roses are also put on the top of the cake. A green ribbon is put around each cake to add a pretty finishing touch. This design is ideal for traditional spring weddings.

Hopelessly Romantic

Red roses give this decadent design a touch of romance. Round chocolate cakes with chocolate icing are surrounded by open red roses. The top of the cake features a small display of red and cream roses and green foliage. The entire creation sits on a silver box with a larger display of red and cream roses and green foliage placed in front. Extremely simple to create, this design feels extravagant and luxurious and certainly unforgettable.

Ebony and Ivory

This sophisticated style sees chocolate and fruit gateaux on alternate tiers of a cake stand. The chocolate cakes are iced with chocolate and the fruit gateaux are iced with white chocolate icing. Each layer is topped with pink and cream roses and green foliage.

Chocolate Lover

Chocolate lovers will enjoy this indulgent cake design. Open cream roses and closed buds of various sizes are placed around three chocolate cakes with chocolate icing.  The cake is also embellished with ivy that is delicately draped around the layers. The top of the cake is crowned with cream roses and green foliage.

Pretty in Pink


This is a very pretty style and uses of plethora of pink flowers such as freesias and peonies, along with white carnations and green foliage on the top of each layer. Each cake is round, with plain white icing and sits on a tier of a silver cake stand. There is a pale green ribbon placed around the bottom of each cake.

Elegant Autumn

This design uses autumn colours for a seasonal, modern look. Square chocolate cakes are layered with alternate squares of chocolate and pale orange icing, giving a striped effect. Each cake is placed on a silver cake board and open brown and cream roses are placed in between. On the top there are more smaller brown and cream roses, along with some small orange and yellow flowers, such as mimosas and ranunculus, and green foliage.

About Tolly’s

Tolly's was founded over twenty years ago and so we have many years’ experience of preparing exquisite wedding flowers for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire weddings. We are renowned for our outstanding customer service. We only commit to one wedding on any given day to ensure that we can give you our undivided attention.

At Tolly's we spend plenty of time with you as a couple to get a complete picture of your requirements so that we can make your day really special. If you would like to discuss your wedding flower requirements, including flowers for your wedding cake, please feel free to get in touch.

Wedding Flowers Essex  – Call us today on 01638 668805 or email us through our contact page to arrange your free wedding consultation.

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