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Drip cakes are the latest trend in one-of-a-kind wedding desserts. The fun style is achieved in a number of ways, from drizzling frosting to melting chocolate. Whether you deck your cake out in caramel or icing, syrups, glazes, or anything else sweet, sliding something down the sides of your confection is a craze the wedding world is eating up. Choose the design to add a pop of color or dress up naked layers. Couple it with flowers, festive toppers, or fruit, and the design's all the more whimsy.

Not sure how to make the fad your own? Click through for some mouthwatering inspiration. Ahead, delicious wedding drip cakes with yummy flavors trickling down their tiers. The decadent splash of something extra makes wedding desserts stand out, so consider cutting into your own drip cake on you and your partner's big day.  

Vibrant Wedding Cake

This unique cake by Sugar Bee Sweets mixed blue accents with dripping white icing. Fresh florals gave the bright dessert and extra boost of color.

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Naked Wedding Cake

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This yummy naked cake was baked by Buttercup, and enjoyed at an elegant fall wedding.

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Pastel Wedding Cake

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Enchanting blush blooms, pale blue icing, and dreamy drips made this wedding cake so sweet.

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Wedding Cake with Dog Topper

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M Cake Sweets made this white cake with a contrasting drip and an adorable pup topper.  

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Flowery Wedding Cake

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This pink confection was a princess bride's dream, from the shiny macarons to the lush petals. The springy dessert was confected by the venue, Garden City Hotel.

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Glam Wedding Cake

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Drips often decorate a cake's top tier, but not on this one-of-a-kind dessert. Hey There, Cupcake! baked the treat, using two different metallics for the glamorous trickle.

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The thick chocolate on top of this cake was enough to make guests drool. Gold flecks just upped the appeal, as did the dessert table's décor.  

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Pink Wedding Cake

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How creative was this glitzy cake, crafted by Fondant Fox? Mini colorful Meringue Girls meringues adorned the dripping tiers.   

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Whimsy Wedding Cake

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This fabulous Sweet T's Bakeshop cake had a bright orange drip.   

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Strawberry Wedding Cake

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A chocolate-ganache drizzle finished off this strawberry-layered Luckybird Bakery cake.    

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Small Wedding Cake

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This boho, tropical crumb cake just couldn't be missed. White rock candy, strawberry macarons, and edible gold sat on top, while chocolate banana leaves were stuck to the sides by Paper Cake Events.

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Succulent Wedding Cake

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This cake reversed the typical wedding color scheme, making white icing just an accent. Succulents were swapped in for usual blooms on the brushstroke-blue confection.

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Chocolate Wedding Cake

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This edgy Patty Cakes dessert was baked for a vow renewal. The cake featured gold details, white flowers, and a chocolate drip.

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Wedding Bundt Cake

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Bundt cakes can be wedding cakes—just ask this dripping barn-wedding dessert.

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White Wedding Cake

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Yum, yum, yum, is all we have to say about this flower-decorated drip wedding cake.

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Fruit Wedding Cake

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Chocolate-dipped fruits took a whole new meaning with this short, autumnal cake.

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Bloom-Topped Wedding Cake

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A yellowy drip was the literal icing on this Cake Fanatics treat.

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