Wedding Cake Topper Trends

The wedding cake topper is often one of the most unique and personal items that the bride and groom will get to choose. But it’s also one thing brides often stress about. Forget the days of plasticine, poorly painted toppers that looked stiff and uncomfortable. Today’s wedding cake toppers are beautiful and original. Consider your hobbies when picking a wedding cake topper and also your uniqueness as a couple. If you’re not the traditional couple, why have a traditional cake topper?

Today’s couples are choosing cake jewelry more and more as their cake toppers. They’ll have splashes of faux jewels in the shape of hearts, butterflies, rain drops, star fish or any other shape they can think of. Often, they are suspended by wire and placed into the cake for a waterfall effect. Also, rhinestone hearts with the couple’s new last initial will be featured on top of the cake. Or three letters are sometimes used for the couple’s first initials and a larger last name initial. These monogram cake toppers are really cute yet glamorous.

 The brides and grooms on today’s cake toppers can be made from glass, acrylic, porcelain or really well done plastic. Many couples are choosing small pieces of sculpture for their cakes. The sculptures are more realistic, show the brides and grooms in more detail and can even be customized to look like the bride and groom. Many brides even go so far as to have their actual wedding dress recreated for the figurine on the top of the cake.

Poses are now all the rage. You may see a bride chasing after a reluctant groom on the top of the cake or a groom on bended knee kissing his new bride’s hand. The sculptural aspects can range from funny—think a guy fishing off his wedding cake while the bride looks on in mock disapproval—or sentimental, like a bride and groom in a picture frame as the “picture perfect couple.”
Many wedding cakes are now going without toppers too. Flowers are being used as sculpture. Fresh flowers can be arranged by either your cake decorator or your florist into a lovely presentation that requires no additional adornment. Some cakes even go without flowers and just have edible gold or silver jewels to dress them.
Gone are the days when you had to choose a cardboard figure off a shelf. You can shop for lovely wedding cake toppers online and find a variety of looks and styles that will perfectly suit your tastes. You’re not limited to Caucasian brides and grooms anymore either. Cake topper companies have now gotten wise and offer a wide range of ethnicities to choose from.

 Today’s cakes are anything but ordinary. Your cake topper should be extraordinary too. Use your favorite colors, theme or personalities to come up with something really different. There are even skeleton brides and grooms these days, so anything goes. Go all out and your friends and family will definitely remember your topper. Make it yourself or shop online. Nothing is too wacky or too funky. Go for what really speaks to you and you’ll be right in keeping with today’s trends.

Courtesy;  Sarah from Here comes the Blog

You WISH Your Wedding Video Looked This Good

About 2 years ago I wrote a post called Wedding Videography – The Taboo Ten in which I detailed the Top 10 videographers you do NOT want to hire for your wedding.   Today, I am thrilled to highlight one such company that will never be found on that list.   303Motion produces wedding videos that breath new life into the industry and, in my opinion, are revolutionizing the idea of what a wedding video can and should be.   I’ll let the sample videos speak for themselves but let me also explain why I chose to highlight this particular company.


Chip & Peanut: Golden, CO from 303Motion.com on Vimeo.

After searching for photographers for my own wedding and viewing several dozen portfolios, it became very difficult to differentiate one photographer’s style from another.   Then I found THE ONE!    The photographer that immediately stood out and the one I ultimately hired had only been shooting weddings for about a year.   His background was in adventure and commercial photography and that’s what gave his photos the edge.   He looked at each shot from an artistic perspective and seemed to have no notion of what a cookie cutter wedding album looked like.
That’s what makes the filmmakers and the films behind 303Motion so refreshing.   The company is comprised of artists with backgrounds in feature film cinematography & editing, commercial production, CG animation and still photography.   They bring their talents from those fields together to craft a uniquely beautiful story.  Your story.

Post courtesy of Naomi from Blushing Bridezilla

London Bride: Revealed - The UK Bloggers Photoshoot & Video

Some of the more popular wedding bloggers (rock n roll bride, love my dress, beyond beyond, OMG i'm getting married, boho events) in London decided to get together for a photoshoot, which was rather interesting. You can read more about it on the link below:

London Bride: Revealed - The UK Bloggers Photoshoot & Video

Get Married with Google Weddings

Earlier this month, Google launched a full fledged planning portal for brides and grooms to be. Google Weddings is a destination that houses wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik for save-the-dates, wedding websites, planning materials, invitations and more. Google has also partnered with wedding planner Michelle Rago to provide tips and guidance on which designs to use. This isn’t Google’s first move in the wedding planning world, the search giant also began offering customized wedding templates in Google Docs a year ago that let users access pre-made documents to track your wedding budget, collect addresses for invitations, compare vendors and much more.
I know it’s a little bit odd for Google to get into the wedding planning space but it will no doubt boost the Google Apps products appeal to twenty or thirty something brides. Being that I actually planned parts of my wedding via Google Docs, I think that these templates will be incredibly useful, especially when it comes to sharing documents with others.

Writing on the Google Blog, senior product marketing manager Lisa Conquergood said that “to help you plan this important day we’ve created wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik, and gathered tips and tricks for using these and other Google products at google.com/weddings. From wedding websites to save-the-date cards, these tools simplify wedding planning, letting you focus your time on the fun things—like tasting cakes!”