How to Choose Colors for your Wedding Cake

Decorators can make beautiful designs and decorations on your wedding cake, but first you must decide what colors you would like to adorn it with. The cake is a key component of the wedding reception, so you want it to be beautifully colored and constructed to fit your wedding. This article will take you through some simple steps on how to choose colors for your wedding cake.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Cake decorator
• Color palette
• Wedding theme
• Second opinions

1. Talk with your future spouse about your favorite colors. Think about which colors you would most like to have on your cake. If you have different opinions, compromise on some color combinations.

2. Speak with a decorator about your cake. With the designs and decorations you have in mind, ask their opinion as to what would be the most suitable colors for your cake.

3. Think back to weddings that you have been to, and try to remember the colors used in the ceremony. Use these ideas to decide what you liked or didn’t like, to get an idea of what colors to use at your wedding.

4. Consider the theme of the wedding, if there is one. Pick colors appropriate with the running concept: dark, starry colors for an evening theme, or warm, sunset-like colors for a beach theme.

5. Decide which colors you would like on your cake, as well as where you want the colors and in what patterns.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have flowers on your cake, try and pick colors to compliment them, like rose, lilac, burgundy or velvet.
• Ask for different opinions of decorators and friends. Try not to form your ideas all by yourself, or you may get thinking too hard and not be happy with the outcome of your cake.
• Many couples just use the colors of the wedding for the colors of the cake.
• Don’t get too caught up in the colors of your cake. Compromise with your spouse if there’s a difference in opinion, and be sure to take the subject lightly—there’s far more important things to worry about when you’re getting married.