How to Make Your Own Wedding Topper
Making your own cake topper not only saves money, but allows you to create a meaningful keepsake from your wedding. It also is a great way to get your groom, bridesmaids or flower girl involved in your big day. Making your own cake topper means your cake can be as personal and unique as you want it to be. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Cardboard
- Crystals
- Craft glue
- Paint
- Wooden figurines
- Birds and birds nests
Instructions
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Order monogrammed letters, your first initial and your groom's first initial, from the Wedding Cuts website. You also can print out enlarged letters from your computer, cutting them out with an X-Acto knife and tracing them onto cardboard. Order crystals in your wedding colors and apply them to the cardboard letters using craft glue.
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Order a DIY wooden bride and groom cake topper kit. The kits usually come with a wooden bride and groom, paint kit, paintbrushes and varnish. Paint the bride and groom with appropriate hair colors and clothing colors and then coat them with varnish. You also can buy your own paint set and wooden figurines at a local craft store.
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Use edible flowers to create a floral masterpiece on top of your cake. You can use What's Cooking America as a resource on which flowers are edible. While you can use nonedible flowers on your cake, make sure pesticides or chemicals have not been used at any point in the growing process. Also make sure not to serve the flowers to your guests with the cake.
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Purchase a tiny bird's nest and two Styrofoam birds from your local craft store. You also can purchase small flowers. Using craft glue or a glue gun, glue the birds and flowers into the nest to create a "Lovebirds" cake topper.
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Use mementos that mean a lot to you and your groom. For example, small framed childhood photos could make a simple but unique cake topper. If you love to play golf together, use golf tees and gold balls as a cake topper. Or, top your cake with a favorite book, a set of paintbrushes if you love art or a set of teacups if you love having coffee or tea together.
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References
- Photo Credit wedding cake image by Werg from Fotolia.com
