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How to Decorate a Wedding Cake With Flowers

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If your wedding has a floral motif there is absolutely no reason that you shouldn’t have those flowers decorating your wedding cake as well. According to Buckhead Wedding Cakes a bride can have the flowers in her bouquet replicated in butter icing or fondant on her wedding cake too.

Many pastry chefs nowadays specialize in making quite realistic (and tasty) looking flowers out of sugar candy. These flower decorations are usually hand made and more expensive then flowers squished out of a tube but they are worth it because they are so elegant looking. A good pastry chef can replicate almost any type of blossom including orchids, roses and calla lilies.

You can decorate a cake with all kinds of edible flowers. Here is a look at what is edible
* Artichoke (flower bud)
* Broccoli (flower buds)
* Cauliflower (flower buds)
* Chamomile (for tea)
* Chives (flowers or buds)
* Chrysanthemum (flower)
* Citrus blossoms (lemon, orange, lime, grapefruit)
* Clover
* Daisies (Bellis perennis quills)
* Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale leaves, roots, flowers, petals, buds)
* Daylilies (Hemerocallis buds, flowers, petals)
* Elderflower (blossoms for drink)
* Hibiscus
* Honeysuckle
* Jasmine (for tea)
* Lilac (salads)
* Moringa oleifera
* Nasturtium (blossoms and seeds)
* Osmanthus fragrans (flower)
* Pansies (Viola x Wittrockiana flowers, petals)
* Pot Marigolds (Calendula officinalis petals with white heel removed)
* Roses (Rosa petals with white heel removed, rose hips)
* Sesbania grandiflora (flower)
* Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus buds, petals, seeds)
* Violet (‘leaf and flowers in salads, candied flowers for pastry decoration’)
* Zucchini blossoms (blossoms)
Decorating your cake with edible flowers is a popular contemporary trend. However there is also a not so popular trend to place inedible flowers around a cake as a decoration or a garnish. For instance pink lilies, which are not edible could flatter a pink and gold themed cake. However some people could have reactions to the pollen in them.

Recently the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) had to put out a warning about the flower Ranunculus. Ranunculus blossoms are so beautiful that they look like sheaves of tightly wrapped tissue paper. They have tightly wrapped buds that come in beautiful weathered shades of pink that you think would make them a perfect choice for a flower centerpiece or even as a topper for a wedding cake. However as good as they look they are poisonous. They should not be placed anywhere near food or even on a food table!

How to Decorate With Hand Tied Bouquets

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Hand tied table bouquets are the funkiest and most creative ways to display flowers at a wedding. There are lots of creative ideas for this type of centerpiece. They were first seen decorating tables at weddings. The fact that they are hand tied together already is a big plus because it means that party guests can bring them home with them after the celebration is over. They simply lift the flowers , pre-bundled at the stems, out of the vase.

In fact a popular centerpiece that can bring you good luck is a hand tied bouquet of sunflowers. You can hand tie them with a yellow satin ribbon or a nice purple and beige winding of hemp. These are flowers that symbolize the sun and also prosperity. They are also large and sturdy enough that your guests can take them home with them. Sunflowers are also great because they last a long time. They can be used for any type of celebration as well –including birthdays.

If you want the most elegant of white wedding table centerpieces consider a mix of cream and snow colored roses, lilies and hydrangeas punctuated with a cooling touch of green ivy. In the winter these flowers also look good with sprigs of evergreen and white berries like mistletoe.

You also can’t go wrong with little sweetheart roses. These are great at a baby shower or wedding shower. You can have bundles of flowers that are pink or blue in color depending on the sex of the baby. If you do not know the sex of the baby, bundle yellow sweetheart roses with a bright yellow or white ribbon.

The hippest hand tied bouquet still has to be the green bouquet, which consists of green callas, green tinged roses and carnations and hydraganeas. The idea here is that everything is that supernatural but very fresh looking combination of ivory and green.

If your wedding is a spring pine then don’t underestimate the seasonal value as well as beauty of a bouquets of hand tied tulips on your reception tables. Double tulips nowadays are so luscious they practically look like peonies!

For a fall and winter celebration bundle together groups of mums. These are very sturdy flowers that also last a long time. They also come in just about every color imaginable including blue and burgundy.

The key is to use your imagination and tie the flowers creatively with ribbons in a way that truly compliments the shape of the flower and also it’s color. Another nice touch is to make sure the flowers are presented in glass vases.