Spring Wedding Cakes That Are Almost Too Pretty to Eat

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A magnolia branch adorned this Funfetti Cloud Nine Bakery dessert.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

Sugar-flower peonies, ranunculus, and roses topped the white-velvet, vanilla, and chocolate cake by Maggie Austin Cake at this early-June celebration.

The classic three-tiered vanilla bean-, lemon-, and mocha-flavored cake at this April wedding was a creation brought to life by the Pago restaurant pastry chef. A combination of blooming rose vines and ferns decorated the treat.

Best. Sister. Ever. For her spring wedding, the bride's sis concocted this homemade chocolate-buttercream cake with white-chocolate cream-cheese frosting, which was inspired by a recipe from Sky High Cakes

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Who needs frosting when you have florals? This blueberry-lemon naked cake by Buttercup Bakery featured fresh flowers on each tier. 

Why not choose a wedding cake that features your favorite flavor and your hubby's too? This five-tiered, white wedding cake by Willard InterContinental Washington combined the groom's go-to flavor, banana, and the bride's favorite, almond. They kept it simple on the outside, with a pretty floral design fitting for spring.

A mint-chocolate groom's cake by Buttercup Bakery made for a springy "something blue." 

At this May wedding, a dessert table held a variety of confections, including a three-tiered vanilla-and-chocolate cake with buttercream icing, a pie, and this single-tiered cake with a monogram topper.

The only thing we love more than the sugar gardenias on this buttercream-frosted, springy wedding cake? The fact that they were inspired by the groom's grandfather's painting, which hung above the fireplace behind the dessert.

Cake Walk Bake Shop designed this two-tiered burnt-sugar cake covered with salted-caramel frosting and accented with fresh flowers, and Facci Designs created the quirky cake topper.

With paper flowers cascading down the top tier and a hand-painted flower design on the bottom, this stunning wedding cake by Hey There, Cupcake! epitomized spring.

Cup&Cake Barcelona adorned this cake with blueberries and rosemary for a decorative touch. 

Nothing says spring quite like fresh peonies, which is why we love this towering five-tiered, fondant-covered, strawberry-filled vanilla wedding cake by Le Gateau Cakery. 

Pretty green vines, pink roses, and white anemones wrapped around the side of this guava- and-pineapple-flavored, Bavarian cream-filled cake by Cake Fanatics.

Nine Cakes designed this five-tiered cake and topped it with the same flowers used in the wedding décor—only in sugar form! Inside, the creation consisted of dark-chocolate cake with strawberry-cream-cheese frosting for the groom and vanilla cake with lavender buttercream and fresh strawberries for the bride.

The passionfruit-soaked white naked cake with buttercream frosting at this tropical wedding bursted with fun spring details, like island blooms and a homemade, wooden laser-cut topper.