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Flowers are a wedding-day staple that often make up the majority of a celebration's décor. From centerpieces and bouquets to boutonnières and flower crowns, florals can be customized to style just about every big-day motif—including your cake. Blooms can make a natural statement as confection toppers—but if you really want to impress guests with a lush confection accent, opt for a cake with floral tiers. Eye-catching layers made from fresh flora add texture and color to your dessert. As long as you pick the right buds and decorate your treat according to your wedding theme, this unexpected element is sure to elevate to your dessert table.

When deciding on which flowers to use, consider a selection that speaks to your event's seasonality. In-bloom florals in shades that reference the time of year can enhance your big-day aesthetic. For an autumnal display, use orange chrysanthemums and purple pansies throughout your dessert. Pink-and-white roses can lend themselves to a spring affair, as evidenced by this Cakes by Rachel and Southern Blooms creation. Any combination of ivory-and-green flowers will work for a winter wedding—unlike a summer soirée, which calls for beachier flora, like hydrangea.

Adding blooming tiers to your wedding cake can complement other aspects of your event, too, like your soirée's overall style. A dessert with tulip-filled Lucite layers nods to a wedding's modern vibe, while a pink-and-red floral confection hints at a feminine, romantic celebration. The gist? If you love flowers and are looking for a unique way to use them on your dessert table, consider covering one (or several!) cake tiers in fresh blooms. Ahead, we've gathered real wedding examples that will inspire your own fresh big-day confection.

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Tulip-Filled Lucite

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Lucite Wedding Ideas for the Minimalist Couple

Modernize your big-day treat by alternating tulip-filled Lucite tiers with cake layers. Shane Morgan of Posh Cakes, David Kimmel Design, and Pop Parties worked together to execute this beauty.

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52 Ideas for Your Spring Wedding Bouquet

Cakes made of protruding floral tiers can add a colorful, whimsical feel to your wedding's dessert table, as evidenced by this Demel and A Very Beloved Bloom creation. The eye-catching confection featured pink, orange, and white roses and purple scabiosa.

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Glamorous Accents

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23 Glamorous Wedding Ideas for Your Luxurious Big Day

Upgrade a classic white cake with lace, floral, and gold accents for a glamorous look. Palermo's Bakery made this treat, which featured bloom filled-tiers by Laurelwood Designs, gilded touches, and eyelet details.

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Garden Appropriate

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25 Beautiful Garden Wedding Venues

Enhance your garden-themed soirée with a cake that showcases natural, earthy elements. We love how this baker used simple white tiers to keep all the attention on these rose and greenery sections.

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Regal Castle

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20 Tall, Skinny Wedding Cakes That Will Bring Your Dessert Table to New Heights

Hosting a castle wedding? Emulate Elizabeth's Cake Emporium's dessert to reflect your regal venue. The royal-inspired treat featured realistic sugar flower tiers and gilded accents.

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Colorful Semi-Naked

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30 Naked Cakes for Your Wedding

Create a colorful wedding cake by alternating semi-naked layers with flower tiers. Ashley Cakes NC used white, yellow, and pink roses and blush peonies by Artfully Arranged when styling this creation.

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Polished Classic

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From Start to Finish: Here's How Wedding Cakes Are Made

Enhance your classic wedding aesthetic with a polished cake that'll wow your guests. Alternate white-and-gold tiers with orchid and rose floral sections, like Rhonda Joodie did here, to create a refined confection.

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Modern Tiers

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The Prettiest Ombré Wedding Cakes for Couples Who Love Color

Looking for a cake that enhances your modern wedding aesthetic? Model your dessert after Stephanie Roseanne Design and Sift and Gather's contemporary creation and divide two same-sized tiers with a layer of flowers.

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Seasonal Buds

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30 Rose Centerpieces That Will Upgrade Your Reception Tables

Reference your wedding date with a cake that showcases seasonal flora. Donna Hay used pink-and-white roses and ivory hydrangeas by Grandiflora to create the budding tiers on this springy treat.

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Fall-Inspired Treat

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58 Genius Fall Wedding Ideas

Create a fall-inspired treat by switching between naked carrot cake layers and rusty greenery tiers. AFM Banqueting did just that to work this confection's autumnal hues of orange, brown, and green throughout the dessert.

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Floral-Centric Celebration

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64 White Wedding Bouquets

Copy Perfect Endings' confection if you're hosting a floral-centric affair. The pros alternated flower-piped tiers with bloom-filled layers to complement the linens and Kathleen Deery Design centerpieces at this celebration.

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Larger-Then-Life Treat

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20 Unique Wedding Cake Shapes Contemporary Couples Should Consider

If you want a larger-than-life dessert, but are worried about leftovers, make statement tiers out of flowers and greenery. Melissa's Fine Pastries used sweetpeas and roses by Kim Starr Wise Floral Events to give this six-foot-tall white-chocolate chiffon treat height.

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Naked Decoration

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When Should You Order Your Wedding Cake?

Dress up your naked cake with a floral-filled tier. Sweet Heather Anne used succulents, pink-and-red roses, and greenery by Kaitlin Parisho Designs to add color and texture to this confection.

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Unique Wedding Color Palettes That Will Set Your Big Day Apart

Incorporate your big-day color palette into your cake in a natural way with bloom-filled tiers. Simply Sweet Cakery and Square Root Designs used ranunculus, roses, and hydrangeas to showcase this event's blue, pink, and ivory hues.

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40 Simple Wedding Cakes That Are Gorgeously Understated

Add dimension to an all-white confection by texturizing it with buds of the same hue. Ivory roses and hydrangeas by Flora & Eventi lent character to this Lisa Barcelona treat.

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Romantic Roses

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20 Pink Wedding Ideas That Pack a Punch

Lend romantic flair to your semi-naked confection by featuring rose-filled tiers throughout. Jens Cakery used pink roses by Hayford & Rhodes to bring this cake to life.

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Feminine Flair

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44 Wedding Cakes with Fresh Flowers

Elevate the feminine feel of your confection by incorporating white-and-pink rose tiers throughout your dessert, like Mademoiselle Vanilla and Fete Boutique Floral + Events did here.

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Matching Selection

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25 Over-the-Top Wedding Cakes We Can't Get Enough Of

Complement your big-day flower selection with a cake—Elizabeth's Cakes Emporium and Zita Elze made this one—that features tiers made of matching blooms.

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Texturized Twice

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A Trend We're Loving: Textured Wedding Cakes

Make like Lush Cakery and texturize your cake in two ways: with bloom-filled tiers and striped icing. Unique Floral Expressions provided the buds for this dessert.

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50 Beautiful Wedding Cakes That Are (Almost!) Too Pretty to Eat

Fill your wedding cake (Kathryn Perrie of Lush Cakery created this dessert) with the blooms seen in your tabletop's centerpieces for a cohesive reception aesthetic.

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