30 Rustic Wedding Cakes We're Loving

Whether you're getting married outdoors in the spring or summer, at a barn during the fall, or up in the mountains this winter, complement the vibe of your celebration by adding a rustic touch to your wedding cake. Even city venues can benefit from the look, which is sure to warm up any space. The style draws inspiration from the natural world, and will give your dessert table a homey, welcoming, outdoorsy vibe.

A rustic design can be achieved in a number of pretty ways. Your baker can create a rugged, nature-inspired look with naked layers or imperfect frosting. Or, you can opt for an organic feel, made using earthy colors (like brown and green) or botanical accents (we love leaves and berries). Simple, modest cakes are also considered rustic—their humble style evokes visions of peaceful country life. And supplements to the dessert itself (think: wooden cake stands and animal toppers) only add to the appeal. Whatever the case, rustic-chic is an adjective for a reason—your cake is bound to look good.

The following confections are great examples of all you can do with a rustic theme for your wedding cake. Whether they were served at a rural venue or baked in contrast to a more industrial setting, they're charming, wedding-worthy, and tasty, too. Traditional treats, seasonal sweets, and alternative pies are just some of what you'll see, meaning this inspiration is as lovely as it is diverse. Go ahead and click through for our favorite ideas—your mouth will be watering and your creative wheels will be turning after viewing these delicious picks.

This lemon-chiffon cake with Swiss buttercream had a natural look, which fit the wedding's Montana mountain setting.

This sweet dessert was pretty as a picture—and baked by DeClare Cakes. The scene featured a bird on branches and 3D butterflies.

As a nod to the bride's Southern roots, guests at this wedding were served apple stack cake, a traditional Appalachian dessert. It was topped with powdered sugar.

This wedding featured pies, rather than cakes, which have more of a country feel.

This simple chocolate cake had a tree-trunk stand. It also included dog toppers and was styled on top of fur.

Goyas made this confection for a wedding on a small Irish island. The yellow cake had raspberry icing inside.   

A juicy red apple topped this naked cake.

This beautiful cake was charmingly simple, and it looked as though it was blooming.   

Lush, dusty-hued roses and other flowers topped this one-tiered cake from Whole Foods Market.   

The Sticky Spatula baked the cake for this wedding, which was decorated with foliage.  

This cake's light coating of icing gave it a wood-like design. Fresh blooms and succulents made for interesting décor.

Tropical ferns gave this Kona Sweets cake an outdoorsy vibe.

A faux-bois exterior proved that this Blue Plate cake was nature-inspired.  

This dessert, from Momofuku Milk Bar, was apple pie-flavored. Plush birds topped it off.   

To reference the California desert-locale of their wedding, this couple topped their small wedding cake, by BabyCakes, with an air plant and small sticks wrapped in embroidery floss as a nod to Navajo walking sticks.

To reference their summer camp wedding venue, this couple decorated their lemon-ricotta pound cake with fresh greenery and wildflowers and a tiny hand-carved canoe topper.

Sam Godfrey, the owner of California's Perfect Endings, bakery gave the frosting of this genoise wedding cake a faux-bois finish to look like wood.

To add to the rustic Americana charm of this barn wedding, this carrot cake, by Scootabaker, was glazed with caramel, layered with caramel buttercream, and adorned with cherries and garden roses.

This small, square wedding cake was frosted in buttercream and topped with pistachio foliage and dahlias at this Texas wedding.

To top off his three-tiered lemon chiffon cake, the groom fashioned a "Just Hitched" garland out of Scrabble tiles, twine, a drill with a tiny bit, and sticks.

This couple brought the outdoors inside at this winter wedding in Utah, by topping their dulce de leche cake with pinecones.

Placed on an old stove-turned cake stand, this carrot cake was frosted in a Swiss dot pattern and finished with a rustic bird topper.

The cream cheese–frosted coconut cake was topped by dancing bears that baker Robin Redding gilded with 18-karat gold leaf. It was placed on a "cake stand" (now a side table in the newlyweds' home) that the baker's boyfriend fashioned from a fallen Monterey Pine.

Keeping with the verdant décor of this coastal wedding in California, this carrot cake was finished with cream cheese frosting and coconut shavings, and decorated with three types of ferns.

The wedding cake at this rustic formal wedding in Georgia featured four tiers, faux bois-printed fondant, and a gold monogram.

Sprigs of sugared rosemary decorated this five-tiered wedding cake by The Caketeria at this rustic barn wedding in Pennsylvania.

With a homemade look, the cake by Dessert Designs at this farm wedding was covered in rustic swoops of fluffy cream cheese frosting.

This olive oil cake with fresh strawberries and French macarons was part of a trio of small cakes from Beach Plum Bakery Café served at an easy-going backyard wedding in Massachusetts.

Sundance Resort's chef re-created a recipe for this couple's favorite coconut cake from the Peninsula Grill in Charleston, South Carolina, where the groom's parents live.

Crisp Bakeshop decorated four tiers of coconut and chocolate-bourbon wedding cake with rustic swirls of vanilla-bean buttercream and lavender sprigs for this garden-party wedding.