Bride and groom cake toppers

Wedding cake toppers come in a wide variety of colours, designs and styles that allow couples to choose any style that best represent their wedding theme. The history of it dates back centuries ago. A woman who is about to be married asked her baker father to find a symbol to represent their marriage and the father came up with a unique idea to signify the love between his daughter and her husband-to-be.

On the wedding day, her father had made two lovely miniature figurines that were perfectly dressed and placed it in the middle of the cake. This symbol is still widely used to this very day at every wedding. Instead of having a traditional couple on the top of your cake, have a cake topper that is unique and personal.

It might cost you a little extra but it’s worth it to find one that makes your wedding day memorable. It will add extra romance and glamour onto the wedding if both the bride and the bride groom can help design and personalize the wedding cake topper. There are a host of contemporary designs that a bride and groom could use to symbolize your marriage to each other. Clay figurines could be hand-made to customize your faces, attires, hairstyles and posture.

Instead of going for the customary pose, you could go for a unique pose or setting. Couple with a flair for the dramatic and a sense of style who yearn for something different on their wedding day could have a metal bride and groom wedding cake topper. Couples who choose to have a Christmas wedding could opt for glass toppers which would go well with the connotation of snow and ice of the wedding cake. Traditional cake tops often feature the bride and groom looking lovingly into their new spouse’s eyes, kissing or taking vows.

Considered as part of the whole theme of the wedding; cakes continually take a new twists, so is the topper, where the new twist have couples playfully interacting, golfing, talking on the cell phone, fishing or even shopping. For the fisherman, for example, there are toppers of the bride catching and reeling in her groom (or vice versa). Couple who wants a playful topper could opt for the bride pulling the groom.  It is also possible nowadays to get numerous examples of the bride catching her groom as he tries to escape, or dragging him by the collar to the altar.

You can also have country western couple in two-stepping their first dance in style. A groom carrying his bride will look beautiful on your cake and on your shelves. Maybe you would like a cake topper to reflect interests that you and the groom share like dancing, hockey, bowling, etc. For those who are having a beach wedding could custom make two figurines taking a romantic walk on the beach. There are also multi-ethnic toppers for African American couple, or a traditional Indian bride and groom, with henna and bindi details, dressed in a beautiful sari and paired with her groom in a sherwani. You can also make a cute Chinese couple in traditional wedding attire. There are cake toppers that are made by marzipan. Marzipan lasts for many years, if protected from the elements in a glass or acrylic box or dome. But many brides really want a more permanent material, which is why toppers are now being made of polymer clay.

Polymer clay topper can virtually last forever with little care after baked. It is possible to sculpt very fine details and incorporate vibrant colours with this type of cake topper, and the finished product is water-impervious. To add a touch of elegance, you can custom make a crystal bride and groom cake toppers. A blown glass figurines comes in the shades of gold, platinum or just clear glass. You could also get toppers made of porcelain or jade porcelain.

A fun way to add a little vintage flavour to your wedding is by using a vintage wedding cake topper on your cake. They are made of chalk, porcelain, cardboard, decorator’s icing, plaster, paper mache. These toppers from the first half of the twentieth century are not always that easy to find, but they are still available today and many are exquisite examples of the cake decorator’s art at that time. Some of the finest examples of vintage wedding cake toppers are to be found in the Kewpie style (the world’s most popular and most copied style of doll).