Allow Your Wedding Cake Toppers To Reflect Your Personalities
Wedding cake toppers represent a time-honored feature of any wedding and come today in all shapes and sizes, from funny toppers to crystal monogram toppers, with themed toppers for everything imaginable, including western weddings.
When arranging a wedding, there are a million things to consider for both the ceremony and the reception — and no reception is complete without the wedding cake itself. The cake is not simply party food but a traditional part of the celebration, with the couple cutting the first piece and symbolically offering each other a bite. Naturally you will want to plan its design well in advance, from the cake and frosting to the toppers you use to adorn it. Toppers are not strictly necessary and can be omitted, but they are an expression of your personality and can make a considerable difference to the impact of what is arguably the centerpiece of your reception.
What Is a Wedding Cake Topper?
For many years, wedding cake toppers have been the little figures of the happy couple placed on top of the cake to represent togetherness. Traditional toppers depict the couple in formal attire and are often the only part of the cake kept over the years, apart from photographs. They were most popular during the 1950s, though many people still use them today.
Choosing the Right Topper
Today there are far more designs than the plain old bride and groom, ranging from the elegant to the comical, so pick something appropriate for the style and theme of your reception — and for you. Cake toppers tend to fall into two broad categories: traditional (serious in nature) and humorous or comical.
Traditional Toppers
If you are having a formal wedding, consider a traditional topper or use your initials for a "monogrammed" topper — simple choices like these are also ideal if you and your partner are finding it hard to agree. While some traditional toppers still show the bride in a white dress and groom in a black tail coat, many now depict the couple in the actual clothes worn for the wedding or in more casual attire. A good example is military wedding cake toppers, which can show the bride or groom in correct uniform, complete with the right medals and decorations. Traditional toppers also include floral designs, initial displays, and scenes from nature — such as beautifully crafted glass dolphins that make an ideal focal point for nature lovers and conservationists.
Funny and Unusual Toppers
For a relaxed, informal reception, an unusual or humorous topper can be quite a talking point and get the reception off to a perfect start. It is easy now to focus on some aspect of the bride's or groom's character, or a shared hobby, and find a topper that raises a smile or a laugh. For a fisherman, there are toppers of the bride reeling in her groom (or vice versa); others show the bride catching her groom as he tries to escape, or dragging him by the collar to the altar. Whatever the theme, matching toppers add a nice touch — playful dolphins for an aquatic theme, for instance. With such a huge range available to suit every taste and budget — including African American, Hispanic, gay, lesbian, beach, dove, Cinderella and firefighter toppers, among many others — it is almost inconceivable that you will not find the perfect one.
Just make sure your toppers fit the design of the cake; if there is any doubt, allow the artistry of the cake to speak for itself and leave them off. Otherwise, your reception is a happy, joyous occasion, so why not stamp your personalities on the event by choosing a topper that reflects who you are.
