Topping your cake with pizzazz
By Never teh BrideIf you’ve been looking for a way to avoid those boring plastic bride and groom cake toppers, you may have noticed that a lot of the topping options out there just plain suck. Lenox china Swans? Sure, these birds mate for life, but it’s been done. Little gazebos? Snore.
Jazzing up your wedding cake is as easy as one, two, three when you grab yourself a single initial, double letters, or a trio of glam toppers from Toppers With Glitz.
You choose your design (from monograms to cut-out images), your font style and size, your crystal colors, and accessories, and Toppers With Glitz will create your custom topper in as little as six weeks. Don’t expect these toppers to come cheap, however. A five inch high letter with both sides embellished featuring three different crystal colors will cost you almost $200.
Now here’s a recommendation for all those who are more interested in cake toppers than the average bride or groom. Check out Vintage Wedding Cake Toppers by Penny Henderson. It’s 182 pages of everything you ever wanted to know about antique cake toppers and more, written in an engaging and personable style. While it is geared toward collectors of vintage wedding items, there is no reason non-collectors can’t take pleasure in the beautiful images of cake toppers nestled in its pages.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Ooh I love them!!! I’ve posted my wedding cake on my blog for you to have a geez at. Hope you like! Cake toppers aren’t terribly common in Oz actually, its more flowers or cupcakes
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November 30th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Wow!!!!!! Your cake(s) looks gorgeous in the photos, Dataceptionist! I bet it looked even more amazing in person. I love the tire tracks - is there some sort of backstory there??
Also, love your dress and your attendants’ dresses - I had a peek at your flickr site, hope that’s alright.
Everybody, go look at that cake, stat!
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Those are so cute!
We’re using Hot Wheels, even though I’m in agonies about removing them from the packaging. Ah, well - I would never have sold my 2, 1964 Lincoln Continental convertibles (one black, one white) anyway, so I should just bite the bullet.
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Bacon’s Mom, your “agonies” over removing the Continentals from their original packaging officially results in a geekier cake top than the Han Solo and Leia ones we used (made extra-geeky by my crafty husband, who built bases they could stand upon).
Congratulations!
December 4th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I don’t think I would have gone for letters if I had the unfortunate monogram of “VD” as pictured.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Poor Stuart Theordore Devonshire!
January 10th, 2007 at 6:28 am
My parent’s next door neighbor is a professional baker and will be sculpting a castle out of white chocolate for our cake topper (it’s a Renaissance wedding). I’m so excited about it!
January 11th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
A cake topper you can eat? AWESOME!