Flowers for a wonky wedding cake

I work with a local Brighton cake designer, Fay Miller of Pink Rose Cakes by supplying her with fresh flowers for her wonderful cake designs.

I was recently involved in a bit of a show-stopper wedding cake which Fay was keen to showcase her skills, when it comes to producing quirky designs, by using a mixture of creative sugar decoration and fresh flowers.

The brief was 'truly tropical flowers to match the wedding theme'.  The bride's flowers included roses, gerbera, double lissianthus, mollucella, shamrock blooms, Singapore orchids, and the theme was purple, pink, white, lime and orange! 

Absolutely my most favourite colours and very 'on trend' for this summer! 

Obviously, when thinking about flowers for a cake, it's not a good idea to choose any with delicate stems which aren't that happy out of water, and large blooms (unless they are the only flower being used), so I suggested a mixture of orange roses, fuchsia pink mini gerberas, purple Singapore orchids and looped Dracaena leaves (lime tips).

The cake was made up of 5 different tiers, each cake was a different flavour, marzipaned and then iced. Each tier was then decorated with a different design and made 'wonky' by inserting specially cut polystyrene wedges in between each tier and decorated with fresh flowers.

Fay was actually attending the wedding, so I delivered the flowers to her the night before after conditioning them and making up some of the looped lime tips and suggested ways of wiring each stem so Fay could do her creative magic on the day.

The result was absolutely stunning!