70 Creative Wedding Cake Ideas

For a simple, yet striking cake design you can’t go wrong with a beautiful frosted drip cake. Ask your florist to set aside some flowers that match your bouquet and scatter them across the tiers of your cake to create a seamless wedding day look.

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This blossom wedding cake will look divine at a spring wedding day. The design might be simple, but the effect is out of this world.

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A naked cake? The term might sound a bit funny but it just means that the cake isn’t covered in classic fondant or royal icing and the sponge is visible. Naked cakes work really well at rustic barn weddings and can be covered in beautiful blooms.

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If you’re not a fan of the sweet stuff and would rather serve up something savoury then a tower of cheeses might be the perfect wedding cake for you. Pretty up the cheese with flowers and decorations between each layer.

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Have fun with your main wedding colour with a modern and stylish ombre wedding cake. Keep it simple with one or two standout blooms on the top layer for maximum effect.

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Go for gold with an entire layer of your wedding cake covered in edible gold leaf. This metallic design works really well at a glamorous affair.

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Add pops of bright colour to your big day with a cool meringue kisses adorned wedding cake. This decoration looks as good as it tastes too.

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Instead of having petals made out of sugar paste you could opt for the real thing! Choose edible flowers and then cover your entire cake in the brightly coloured petals. This ombre effect is particularly stunning.

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Give a nod to the season you’re getting married in with this cute autumnal chocolate cake. The decorations are made out of biscuit too, a bonus sweet surprise for your guests.

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Play around with textures when it comes to your wedding cakes for a sophisticated look. Ruffles and sequins are two brilliant textures for tiered wedding cakes or you could ask your cake maker to design something to match the fabric of your wedding dress.

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How pretty is this floral cascade wedding cake? Pick out your favourite flowers from your bouquet and table centrepieces and ask your cake maker to recreate them in sugary form.

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Oversized leaves and striking blooms can make a stylish impact on a wedding cake. Who would have thought a few carefully chosen leaves could create such wow-factor?

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Add some French flair to your big day confection with some chic macarons. Keep the tiered wedding cake simple and then decorate each layer with these tasty dessert treats in your chosen wedding colours.

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Wedding cake decor can be added to a tiered cake after it has been made, so you could get creative yourself and design a pretty wreath to sit on the side of your cake like this clever design.

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Instantly transform a simple frosted wedding cake by adding some texture. This cake is really easy to achieve, doesn’t cost the earth and will look really stylish on your big day.

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Depict some of your favourite stories or fairytales on your cake with a unique design like this Flower Fairies cake. The sky is the limit when it comes to wedding cakes, as long as you choose a cake maker with the skills to create your dream design.

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A waterfall of flowers cascading down from the top to bottom tier is a classic wedding cake design for a reason. Choose flowers and colours that work with your wedding theme for extra style points.

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Your wedding day will be out of this world, so why not reflect that feeling in your cake with a cosmic design? Stars, moons and planets lend themselves nicely to a wedding theme and like this design shows, you can keep the look very pared back and chic, but still add an otherworldly look to your cake.

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This cake is so clever it doesn’t even look edible at first glance! If your wedding day has a really strong theme, you can get creative with a cake that really reflects that. Make sure to ask to see previous examples of your cake maker’s work if you’re going down the novelty route to ensure they look chic enough to grace your wedding table.

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At first this looks like a classic flower adorned wedding cake, but it’s actually a subtle and chic look for a beach wedding with the addition of crumbs for sand at the bottom and chocolate shells and coral.

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Choose large standout blooms to decorate your cake and you won’t need many. This cake is a gorgeous mixture of both sugar paste flowers and a hand painted flower design if you can’t decide between the two.

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A semi naked cake is essentially a sponge cake covered in a thin layer of buttercream. It’s meant to look rustic and not too manicured and works really well at an English country garden style wedding. Cover with fresh fruit and flowers for a cheap and chic finish.

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Go all out with a bright colour to catch your guests’ eyes as soon as they walk in the room with a colour pop cake like this turquoise and pink confection. Achieve the look with a mixture of decorations including meringue kisses, fruit, chocolate shards and fresh flowers.

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Create a relaxed, boho vibe at a festival style wedding by decorating a semi naked cake with fresh flower petals and a simple lace ribbon. If you’re crafty you could even give this macramé cake topper a go.

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Having a tropical themed wedding or getting married somewhere exotic? Then you’ll want to reflect the theme in your cake design. Choose bold colours like bright pink and yellow and have fun with some different decor like the dried fruits used on this statement cake.

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Love the traditional white cake but want to do something a little different? How about tiers of the softest baby blue instead and having your wedding cake as your something blue for the day? Combine with glimmering silver for a really chic look.

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Tiers of white fondant are a wedding classic for a reason. This smart look will stand the test of time and looks elegant whatever your venue or theme.

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Are you known for your love of modern art and all things design-led? Then turn your wedding cake into a piece of art worthy of a space in a top gallery by opting for a cool hand-painted design like this fabulous faces cake.

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Pair tiers of classic buttercream with a standout ruffled bottom tier to catch your guests’ eyes. Top with roses for a simple, but chic cake.

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This cake takes its inspiration from the east and would work perfectly at an Asian wedding. Ask your cake maker to match your cake to the fabric of your sari or stationery to keep a streamlined wedding look.

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A bit like your dress, wedding cakes don’t have to be white! In fact you can really make a statement with dark icing like this navy cake. Bright fresh flowers stand out particularly well against a darker backdrop too.

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Wedding cake tiers don’t have to be just round or square. Have some fun with your cake and choose something sumptuous like this pillow cake that looks good enough to sleep on.

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As well as the shape of your cake tiers the depth and size can be altered to give your cake a more modern look. We love this tall cake with only two tiers in dramatically different sizes to create vertical interest.

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If you’re worried about fresh flowers wilting on a warm summer’s day, you can decorate your cake with dried flowers and still create an amazing effect. A big bold spray of dried flowers like this looks really striking.

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If you’re working to a tight budget or have a small guest list you don’t have to compromise on cake design. Two tiers can look just as impressive as a huge tower if you go for a simple idea and have it perfectly executed like this.

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This clever geode cake is like a piece of art and will astound your guests. Keep the rest of the cake simple and let the colourful crystals do the talking.

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Mix and match your wedding colours in modern style with clever hand painted icing. A spray of flowers finishes off the look perfectly.

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Does anything say autumn like golden leaves cascading down from the sky. If you’re saying “I do” in autumn a simple way to reflect the season is with gold dusted leaves tumbling down the tiers.

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Can’t decide on just one style for your wedding cake? Mix and match all your favourite looks in a tall tiered cake instead!

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Ask your cake maker to create an abstract feathered look using your favourite pastel colours across the tiers of your cake for a pared back, but perfect cake.

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Take inspiration for your cake from your interiors with this statement metallic damask design cake. As it’s such a bold print keep the look to just one tier of your cake.

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This cake couldn’t be simpler to make – just three different colours of buttercream across the tiers. it might be easy, but it still looks amazing especially when paired with a modern cake topper.

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How delicious does this painted cake look? The abstract design would work perfectly at a modern big day or a colourful summer celebration.

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Flowers don’t just have to top a cake, you can go bloomtastic with your favourite flowers in between each layer of your cake. This works beautifully with a semi naked cake too.

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If you’re having a rainbow theme on your big day then you can have a lot of fun with a colourful cake. This cake mixes colour and texture perfectly with a pastel take on the rainbow to keep things chic.

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Look across the channel for cake inspiration. The French certainly know how to make an impact when it comes to dessert with the classic croquembouche, which can do double duty as pudding and cake.

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Personalise your cake with your couple monogram for an elegant look. If you’ve got a monogram on your stationery you can ask your cake maker to copy it to make sure everything looks seamless.

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There’s a real art to making a paint splatter look good, but when it does it looks amazing. The monochrome paint splatter tier on this cake is a really modern look for a wedding cake and you could choose to have all your tiers match or simply opt for a single tier like this design.

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It’s often what’s in the inside of a cake that really matters, so let your guests glimpse the delicious delights within your wedding cakes with a geode pattern that runs from the top tier all the way to the bottom.

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A black wedding cake? Yes black can look as exquisite as white when you add bright colour pop flowers like on this tiered wedding cake.

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Can’t decide between a doughnut tower and a wedding cake? Combine the two to elegant effect like this.

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Does your wedding dress have ruffles on? Then you might want to make your dress match by asking your cake maker to create this clever ruffled effect with the icing.

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Oh la la! How chic is this tier wedding cake? With macarons in Tiffany blue interspersed with pretty roses it’s like the most elegant of waterfalls cascading down your cake.

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Ask your florist to make a pretty wreath with any leftover flowers and place it on a simple white wedding cake that you can buy for next to nothing from a supermarket. Et voila, a delicious and eye-catching cake.

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Spring brides take note, this blossom cake is perfect for your big day and will wow your friends and family. And how gorgeous are the matching cookies?

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You don’t have to stick to one shape for your wedding cake tiers so have fun with lots of different geometric designs including circles, squares and hexagons like on this metallic beauty.

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You can make a cake look incredible with the simplest of ingredients – buttercream and food dye. We love this modern look that is simple yet striking.

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Let your cake sparkle as much as your engagement ring with a standout crystal and metallic design in a deep striking purple.

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Black and white always looks smart and we love the addition of a personalised topper and big, bold letters on this cake.

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Are you and your partner known as bookworms? Then why not immortalise some of your favourite reads in cake form at your wedding?

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If you haven’t got a sweet tooth there are loads of great wedding cake alternatives to consider, including a stack of savoury pies, which looks prettier than it sounds.

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Cube-shaped tiers can look amazing especially when they’re decorated with a gorgeous hand-painted design like this one.

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Look to the skies for your wedding cake inspiration and create a space age look with metallic constellations and glittering stars.

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This sunny cake would work wonders at a summer celebration.

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You can make a plain white cake look instantly incredible with the addition of an artful smattering of sugared petals in your wedding colours.

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Know someone who is amazing at art? Ask them to paint a pretty design on your cake using edible food colour for a cake that is completely unique.

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Figs are a beautiful and tasty wedding cake decoration and look particularly brilliant when paired with edible flowers and herbs.

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If you prefer brownies or another type of sweet treat to classic sponge or fruit cake then there’s no reason you can’t have a tower of them as your wedding cake and decorate it in lavish style.

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Now this is a striking look for a cake, classic white tiers with an eye-catching stripy design in the centre.

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This is a really unique idea, but one everyone will love at a summer wedding. A tower of chocolate dipped strawberries looks as good as it tastes and can double up as dessert.

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