Comments on: A chance to have their cake and top it, too

By: Val

Val — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:34:59 +0000

“or just one white groom because your fiance is a furry and you’re going to pair it with a statue of an anthropomorphic fox.”

Caused me to snort soda up into my nose haha.

I’m not crazy about the bridexgroom (or bridexbride/groomxgroom) toppers either. There are so many beautiful things you can get to put on the top layer, I just wouldn’t chose the ‘doll’ sort of topper.

I’m loving the picture idea. The frames you linked to are gorgeous!

By: Twistie

Twistie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:41:20 +0000

We should so get the Ghost Hunters on that, NtB. Jay? Grant? Want to investigate?

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:27:07 +0000

Dent: I at first read the last bit of your comment as “a representational cake topper that looks a bit like US.” I was all excited because I finally had concrete proof that ghosts read Manolo for the Brides. Alas, the search goes on…

By: Dent

Dent — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:52:04 +0000

I am not a huge flower lover and so I figured a cake topper would be better than a bare cake (plus my mother would have flat out refused to leave nothing on top!). We went with a less representational cake topper that looks a bit like this:

http://www.weddingmountain.com/popup.aspx?src=images/PRODUCT/large/1896.jpg

By: C*

C* — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:43:16 +0000

I am anti-cake topper in every sense. We had fresh flowers on top of our cake and it was lovely.

By: Roya

Roya — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:54:07 +0000

I have to disagree, I think the couple cake topper is such a cliche that you sort of have to do it. I have several friends with similar experiences who had a hard time finding representative toppers, and quite a few who had odd ones just because they didn’t even think to look for something else.

One site that I have seen though pretty extravagent is:

http://www.thumbprintkids.com/pages/characterfig.htm

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:06:51 +0000

My hubby and I got legally married exactly one year before the wedding, so that I could be on his health insurance. We had a small church ceremony that was only our immediate family, a total of eight people. Since this was a last minute thing, I called the grocery store and asked if I could order a wedding cake, to be picked up the next day. After the baker stopped laughing at me, I explained that I simply wanted a 10″ round cake, topped with an 8″ round cake, frosted in white. I stuck a $5 wilton bride and groom on the top, and called it a day. We then had a “reception” at Olive Garden. I have much more fond memories of that mini cake than I do of the fancy one that we ordered for the wedding a year later.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:55:05 +0000

I happened to be looking for new desktop pictures on flickr this morning, and in the “Interestingness” stream there was a picture of a dartboard cake, which was SO AWESOME! I checked out this woman’s other cake photos, and found this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenlindsay/2499852290/

What a great substitute for cake toppers! Plus, it’s the whole wedding party! It really tells a story, and is far more personalized. Not all her cakes are wedding oriented, but they’re all really creative. I think she’s based in the UK.

By: Pencils

Pencils — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:45:26 +0000

I agree with you, I like more creative toppers. One of my favorites that I saw online was a couple that used a pair of Fisher-Price little people that looked remarkably like them (I think they may have altered them slightly.)

I had a lot of ideas, from Superman and Wonder Woman (private joke) to using an antique topper. I did find an antique that I really liked, but it was too tall and heavy to use on our cake, so it ended up on the cake table. I never got it back, I wonder if someone dropped it. On top of the cake we ended up with a Wilton topper with two adorable lovebirds in a pretty little flower-bedecked cage. I joked that the cage was indicative our our marriage vows. That did survive the reception and now has pride of place in our home.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:41:51 +0000

(looks mildly befuddled)

Shouldn’t every wedding be quite a gay affair?

Count me among those usually devoted to the anti-cake-topper lifestyle. I think this is a good idea in theory, but I have to say I’m underwhelmed by the execution. I’m sure part of it is the fact that I’ve never cared for little bride and groom figures on top of a cake, so I may not be the best judge, but for all the ethnic diversity…these all look pretty much the same to me.

I much prefer those little birds. They just look so very ernest. I wonder if the artist would do a same-sex variation for those couples who are not the ’standard’ configuration of spousal genders.