Spring Wedding Cakes That Are Almost Too Pretty to Eat

March 05, 2015
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Celebrate the coming of warmer days, and your newlywed life, with these inspiring spring-themed wedding cakes.

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When it comes to designing your wedding cake, it never hurts to look to the season for inspiration. This helps if you're hoping to decorate your confection with flowers, as you'll probably want to know what's fresh and readily-available. It's also useful when picking the color scheme, if you want to highlight your wedding date through details like your dessert. You can even choose to serve timely flavors, like something floral for spring.

Because spring's such a beautiful time to wed, we've seen tons of seasonal cakes at real weddings taking place in March, April, May, and early June. Despite what you may think, they aren't all decked out in peonies and pastels. Common spring-inspired motifs can certainly make their way into your dessert, but brides and grooms are more than welcome to go a more creative route, too. Whether that means swapping out a white confection for colorful one, using less-popular springtime symbols, or covering your cake in a bounty of fresh flowers, the options are as varied as the season's unpredictable weather.

If you're tying the knot during this special time of year and want to embrace all that it has to offer, infuse spring into your wedding cake. For ideas, look no further than the following treats, which were served at springtime celebrations and nodded to the season in a range of pretty and unique ways. Like the loveliest sun shower or the lushest blooming garden, these desserts were stunning. 

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Vow Wedding Cake

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The couple's vows were written in pink on their Amy Cakes dessert, which was topped with fresh flowers for their May wedding.

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Hellebores Wedding Cake

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At this wedding, there were seven different cakes, one being a Valerie Confections almond option decorated with hellebores. The colors could not be more fitting for a springtime celebration.

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Blue Wedding Cake

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Soft, springy shades aren't limited to light pink, purple, and yellow. An icy blue like this one works for the season, too.

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Trellis Wedding Cake

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Anything garden-related, including trellises, will evoke the thought of spring. That's why, with its trellis-like pattern, this cake is a perfect fit for the season.

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Strudel Wedding Cake

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For their German-inspired March wedding, this couple chose a Pretty Please Bakeshop "cake" made out of apple strudel.

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Four-Tiered Wedding Cake

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This sweet, textured confection was decorated in springy, bridal hues like blush and cream.

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Unexpected Wedding Cake

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A speckled design is surprising but still spring-appropriate. The colors on this cake resembled staples of the season: sunshine mixed with rain.

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Lovely Wedding Cake

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There's nothing like pink flowers to make a wedding dessert feel appropriate for spring.

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Ocean-Inspired Wedding Cake

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Cloudberry Bakery created this blue-and-white cake, which was flecked with gold leaf, for one couple's April wedding. The motif was perfect for a seaside celebration.

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Bundt Wedding Cake

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This wedding's Bundt cake was coated in powdered sugar, resembling springtime's last dustings of snow.

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Ridged Wedding Cake

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For their May wedding, this couple cut into a ridged confection decorated with a few vibrant flowers.

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Magnolia Wedding Cake

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A magnolia branch adorned this Funfetti Cloud Nine Bakery dessert.

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Sparse Wedding Cake

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Little groupings of white, pink, red, and purple flowers decorated this sparsely-iced cake.

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Green-and-White Wedding Cake

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The piped icing on this chocolate GhilaDolci Bakery dessert with vanilla frosting was inspired by French architecture.

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Nearly-Naked Wedding Cake

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Pink flowers were used to spruce up this wedding cake. It was coated with just a bit of icing.

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Wedding Cake with Bright Flowers

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Pastels may be popular for spring weddings, but you can definitely opt for brighter shades, instead. This couple chose saturated pink and orange blooms for their cake.

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Metallic Wedding Cake

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At this March wedding, guests munched on a Sweet Treets Bakery confection. The white-chocolate-with-raspberry-filling dessert had ranunculus flowers and a metallic design.

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Little Wedding Cake

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This petite, flower-topped treat was oh-so pretty. The peach-hued roses are especially fitting for a spring wedding.

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Botanical Wedding Cake

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These newlyweds served a nature-inspired Jonathan Caleb Cake dessert, which had life-like sugar flowers and the couple's monogram.

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Ribbon Wedding Cake

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This Champagne-flavored cake by Minette Rushing featured sugar peonies and a hand-painted crest. Each tier was trimmed with velvet ribbon.

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Matching Wedding Cakes

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This couple served several fondant-covered cakes from Coco Paloma Desserts topped with fresh flowers at their April wedding.

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Almond Wedding Cake

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These newlyweds served a selection of cakes by Go Girl Goodies on simple, glass stands. Among them was this almond cake decorated with white peonies.

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Formal Wedding Cake

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A three-tiered confection by Maggie Austin Cake was adorned with gardenias (the bride wore a fresh one in her hair), sugar pearls, and ruffles for this formal affair.

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Dripping Wedding Cake

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This couple opted for an exposed cake with icing dripping down the sides by Classic City Confections for their April wedding.

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Piped Wedding Cake

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The three-tiered cake by Buttercream was piped in an elegant pattern and boasted layers of pineapple, strawberry, and chocolate, at this spring wedding. 

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Golden Wedding Cake

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Gold fondant and desert flowers covered a lemon-thyme cake given the Midas touch by Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe for this April wedding. "I wanted something not too sweet," said the bride. "I like the mix of sweet and savory."

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Flavorful Wedding Cake

This couple cut into a four-tiered wedding cake from Momofuku Milk Bar at their May nuptials.

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