66 Colorful Wedding Cakes

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Dana Fernandez

Would you rather: pink buttercream swirls or gorgeous purple fondant?

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Apryl Ann Photography
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While we'll always love a classic white wedding cake, we're seeing more and more couples buck tradition and serve a colorful dessert. By using edible watercolors, colored fondant, dyed buttercream frosting, bright cake layers, vibrant flowers, and foliage, brides and grooms are able to incorporate tons of fun colors into their wedding cakes. Even trendy naked cakes are seeing splashes of color with dyed cake batter or layers of frosting. There's nothing wrong with a white cake, but your guests will be wowed by these confections.

Plus, with a colorful cake, no one will be able to resist taking that perfect dessert Instagram, giving them yet another reason to use your wedding hashtag. Who doesn't want to see more photos from their big day all over their social media feed? Here, we've pulled together our favorite styled cake designs, plus some gorgeous desserts that were served at real weddings. Whether their shades reflected the flavors inside or complemented a celebration color palette, these beautiful confections are surprising and one-of-a-kind.

Green, Black, and Gold Wedding Cake

Sugar Bee Sweets made this incredible confection, which pulled off its unexpected color scheme perfectly. The lower tier had a stained-glass vibe, and the gold mixed with black was surprisingly elegant.

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Pretty Floral Cake

Arrowood Photography

How darling was this floral-patterned cake, with pinks, purples, greens, yellows, and oranges?

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Orange Drip Cake

Becka Pillmore

From the whimsical flora to the bright, sugary drip, this Sweet T's Bakeshop cake was straight out of a dream.

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"XO" Cake

Michael Radford
Go Inside This Lyric-Inspired Wedding

This wedding was inspired by a Beyoncé song, with "XO" sprinkled throughout. The cake was primarily red and white, with a fitting raspberry-lemonade flavor. Hey There, Cupcake! made it.

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Blue-Painted Cake

Charla Storey Photography

Layered Bake Shop made this bright dessert, which had alternating tiers of plain white and painted blue.

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Clean-Cut Cake

Greer Gattuso

This colorful cake was surprisingly timeless with its clean edges and pretty flowers. Melissa's Fine Pastries baked the superb confection.

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Mini Painted Cakes

Kate Headley
Go Inside This Urban Wedding

Maggie Austin Cake made these individual cakelets, which were painted in impressionist style. The pastoral scenes were perfectly picked for the garden-inspired wedding.

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Purple-Flecked Cake

Jenny DeMarco

This sweet little cake looked finger-painted, mixing whimsy with modern romance. Sweet Treats Bakery made the lovely dessert.

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Unique Pink Cake

JoPhoto

This pink cake from Sugar Magnolia featured a glam surprise: Spots of gold sprinkled across tiers! 

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Moody Blue Cake

Charla Storey Photography
Go Inside This Intimate Wedding

Layered Bake Shop made this leather-textured cake with bluish-gray fondant. The fuschia and white flowers complemented the color gorgeously.

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Enchanting Cake

Joel Serrato

Have you ever seen a cake like this deep-green beauty? Perfect Endings was the genius behind the enchanted-forest design.

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Geode-Inspired Cake

Kelli Lynn Photography
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A wedding cake like this one is not for the faint of heart! Between the geode-like center and dinosaur topper, Stephanie Norton made this fun confection daring.

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Stucco-Inspired Cake

Lauren Ashley Photography
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Stucco inspired the white tiers on this cake, while the ombré middle tier provided a nice contrast. Susie's Cakes designed the simple confection.

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Geometric Wedding Cake

Laura Kelly Photography
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Marbled purples and blues and gold geometrics were one-of-a-kind on this Cake Whisperer cake.

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Foliage-Inspired Cake

O'Malley Photographers
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Leafy prints are oh-so-stylish, and totally wow-worthy on wedding cakes! Whipped Confections made this chic dessert using a pattern inspired by nature.

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Blue-and-Green Cake

Simply Sarah Photography

This cool-colored cake was extra appealing and super pretty. Whipped Confections made the yummy dessert for a rustic, romantic wedding.

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Epic Cake

Brittany Mahood
Go Inside This Canada Wedding

This towering cake was simply epic, with fondant frills and sugar flowers. Jenna Rae Cakes designed the dessert, and used painted, slivered almonds for its gilded tier.

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Dreamy Cake

Vicki Bartel
Get the Best of Whimsical Weddings

This striped, pastel cake was supremely dreamy, and made by Bobbette and Belle.

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Limelight-Loving Cake

Whitney Neal Photography

Wedding cakes can be as flashy as you want—just look at how this one stole the show! Martine's Pastries made the dessert with dark greens and vibrant pinks galore.

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Pink-and-Green Cake

Jasmine Star Photography

This small vanilla cake from Sweet and Saucy Shop was filled with passionfruit cream and coconut cream cheese frosting and covered with a vanilla buttercream. The pink and green colors were inspired by the reception's tropical theme and anchored the table of island-inspired treats. 

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Blue Mint Cake

Dana Fernandez
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This couple served a pale blue, mint-chocolate groom's cake from Buttercup Bakery at their Houston Wedding. 

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Pastel Watercolor Cake

Joielala
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Sweet Cheeks Baking Company created this vanilla citrus cake with raspberry preserve filling and lemon curd, layered with buttercream frosting and covered with white fondant. Splashes of pastel and soft florals were added for a watercolor effect.

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Rainbow Slices

Steve Steinhardt
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This cake from Charm City Cakes West was all-white on the outside with rainbow layers on the inside as a nod to gay pride.

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Geo-Printed Cake

Katie Stoops Photography
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This couple served a pumpkin spice cake with a cinnamon-brown-sugar buttercream frosting form Sweet Fix at their fall wedding. They brought the diamond motif and bright colors of their wedding into the cake design, hand-painting the motif onto the white fondant.

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Pastel Blue Cake

Trent Bailey Photography
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Sylvia Weinstock drew inspiration from the bride's after-party outfit—a lace "tuxedo”—to make this light blue, four-tiered confection with different flavor pairings: chocolate cake with cannoli cream and almond cake with blood orange and key lime buttercream.

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Rock Candy Cake

Belathée Photography
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This hexagonal-shaped chocolate cake from Sweet and Saucy Shop was frosted in vanilla buttercream and covered in crushed pink rock candy.

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Colorful Macaron Cake

Catherine Mead
How Macarons Became a Wedding Must-Have

Boutique Souk created this colorful macaron cake featuring vanilla-, violet-, and raspberry-flavored macarons.

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Purple Cake

Erin Kate Photography
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For their winter wedding in Utah, this couple served a dulce de leche cake with salted caramel filling and vanilla buttercream and topped with pinecones for a wintry effect. The cake was made in-house at Deer Valley Resort.

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Dripping-Blue Watercolor Cake

Jacqueline Campbell

Hey There, Cupcake! adorned this lemon cake with blueberry curd filling with paper flower garnishes and blue watercolor detailing.

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Skull Cakes

Trent Bailey Photography
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BCake NY drew inspiration from Dia de los Muertos to create these bride and groom skull cakes. The bride skull cake was dark chocolate with chocolate mousse and ganache filling, with a floral sugar veil topper. The groom skull cake was infused with white tequila and lime and layered with tequila buttercream and was decorated with a top hat.