49 Fall Wedding Cakes We're Obsessed With

Updated September 01, 2020
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These fall-themed desserts all embraced the season, whether through their design, their flavor, or both.

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With its cool, crisp air and warm, fiery color scheme, autumn is a lovely time to get married. If you're planning to tie the knot sometime during this popular season, we recommend serving guests an autumnal wedding cake. With an abundance of festive motifs and seasonal flavors, your fall dessert can be both beautiful and tasty.

Are you a chocoholic? Obsessed with all things pumpkin spice? Truly give guests a taste of the season with a celebratory confection. Other popular autumn flavors include caramel, nut, and maple, which are all delicious cake options and are sure to be popular amongst attendees. Add seasonal fruits like apples and pears to the mix to ensure your dessert offers an extra dose of seasonal flavor.

When it comes to design, the possibilities are also plentiful. A safe bet is to go with fall colors like red, yellow, orange, and green. Gold is another great pick, as are metallics in general. Overall, you can't go wrong with deep, warm, or shimmering shades. Use in-season flowers or autumn foliage to spruce up your tiers or use molds or edible paint to recreate them.

For visual inspiration, look no further. We've found a wide range of autumnal desserts that you can model your own confection after. There are tons of options for a rustic wedding, but also many for a formal celebration. Naked cakes, small cakes, colorful cakes—the list goes on as far as what we've included. This incredible Magpies Bakery carrot cake (with berries, acorns, feathers, and more) is just the start.

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All-Natural Wedding Cake

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Kake by Darci created an asymmetrical confection filled with lemon cake and raspberry-flavored frosting and chocolate cake with salted caramel-flavored frosting. And greenery topped off each tier.

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Floral- and Fruit-Lined Wedding Cake

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This four-tier naked cake by the Pretty Please Bakery was filled with honey pistachio and raspberry almond cake layers and topped with vanilla buttercream and seasonal fruit for an unforgettable fall wedding cake.

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White Motif Wedding Cake

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An almond-flavored cake with peaches and buttercream frosting completed this four-tier sweet by Hey There, Cupcake.

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Blue Ombré Wedding Cake

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An ombré-like design with gold touches highlighted this intricate fall confection by Simply Cakes.

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Fresh Floral Wedding Cake

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Fresh flowers and almond dacquoise, crispy feuillentine and praline, and chocolate mousse flavors defined the Penha Longa Catering-designed white buttercream fall wedding cake.

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Greenery-Wrapped Wedding Cake

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The Butter End used hand-dyed silk ribbon in a green hue to wrap this four-tier carrot- and coconut-flavored white cake with fresh gardenia blooms for a fall wedding.

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Three-Tier Floral Lined Cake

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Wildflour Sweets' white-frosted cake accented with fresh flowers stole the show at this dessert table.

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Cascading Flower Wedding Cake

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Autumnal blooms effortlessly cascaded down this buttercream wedding cake, created by Eldorado Resort and Casino.

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Simple and Floral Wedding Cake

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Lake Tahoe Cakes made this Champagne and strawberry two-tier cake stand out with its fresh florals and cookies-n-cream bottom layer.

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Sweet Wedding Cake

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This itty-bitty wedding cake with Oak & the Owl flowers was undeniably enchanting.

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Wedding Cake with Asymmetrical Flowers

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Blooms were arranged in an asymmetrical design for this wedding's Frost It Cakery dessert.

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Ombré Wedding Cake

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Pretty Little Details Co. crafted this red ombré confection. Magdalen Hill provided the flowers.

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Black Wedding Cake

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Fall is the perfect time to pull off a moody, black wedding cake. This one, created by Buttercream Bakeshop, is proof.

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Smooth Wedding Cake

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A few purple blooms kept this Sweet 101 cake simple yet still seasonal.

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Embellished Wedding Cake

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Embellished details like these are sure to be standouts. Sweet + Saucy designed this red confection.

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Gooey Wedding Cake

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A succulent, flowers, and fruits topped this mouthwatering autumn dessert by Salt & Honey.

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Deep Wedding Cake

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The flavor was just as rich as the colors when it came to this Sweet Couture cake.

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Coastal Wedding Cake

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This petite blue sweet by Cake Fanatics was inspired by the coast of Hawaii during autumn.

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Macaron Wedding Cake

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Try decorating a chocolate cake with macrons in a complementary (and autumnal) flavor, a la this Simon Lee Bakery dessert.

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Orange Wedding Cake

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Various shades of orange were layered onto this two-tiered Sugar Bakers Cakes treat.

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Pear Wedding Cake

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Caramel, buttercream, pear slices, and pink flowers—what more could your autumn wedding cake need? Cakes by Ebony baked this masterpiece.

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Rose Wedding Cake

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For this November wedding, yellow and red roses topped the small Exquisite Desserts cake off.

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Ruffled Wedding Cake

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Look closely and you'll see that this textured Megan Joy Cakes confection had gold and blue edging, making it creatively autumnal.

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Wedding Cake with Colorful Flowers

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This dreamy Sugar Bee Sweets Bakery cake had blue, purple, and pink floral accents.

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Bright Wedding Cake

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This pretty Paper Cake Events dessert was topped with saturated flowers and gilded leaves.

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Romantic Wedding Cake

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This simple cake had white icing and was decorated with rosy blooms.

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"Love" Wedding Cake

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Sweet Spot Cupcakes wreathed this cake in greenery and finished it off with a topper spelling "love."

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Stationery-Inspired Wedding Cake

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Sarah's Cake Shop included layers of chocolate and raspberry jam-filled cake and carrot cake in this dessert. The confection was designed with the couple's floral stationery in mind.

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