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Unique Wedding Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

With the help of a talented cake designer, there seems to be no limit to how unique wedding cakes can be.

Flower themes are popular and beautiful wedding cake ideas, and lend themselves to a myriad of unique wedding cake decorating styles.

Your favorite flower can be the theme for your wedding cake, be it pansy, sunflower, daisy, bird-of-paradise, orchid, tulip, violet or, of course, rose. The flowers on the wedding cake need not be relegated to the traditional role of simple adornments – a talented cake designer can replicate your bridal bouquet on your cake, or create a multi-tiered garden reminiscent of the one in your grandmother’s yard, including the white picket fence and birdhouse. Fruit and vegetable gardens are unique wedding cake decoration themes that you cake designer can bring to life on your wedding cake too.

Theme weddings open up the door to fantastic creativity and truly unique wedding cakes. A medieval theme wedding cries out for something like Cynthia Peithman of Cakeline’s fabulous custom gilded cake with pearls, gold and a gilded crown. For an adventure-loving couple with a travel-theme wedding, Ms. Peithman’s “Flying High” custom cake, topped with a whimsical bride and groom in a propeller plane could be just the ticket.

A Victorian theme wedding is the perfect setting for a unique Victorian roses and bows wedding cake by Sylvia Weinstock Cakes . This marvelous creation comes adorned with swagging drapery, gathered by delicate violet bows and accented with grapes and flowers. (Read our interview with Sylvia Weinstock, and learn about more unique ideas for your Victorian Theme Wedding.)

Ms. Weinstock also offers a magnificent and unique cake for an Asian theme wedding. The octagonal, Asian-inspired cake features two tiers and is topped with a vase filled with exotic, handmade orchids - and everything is edible.

Unique Crimson Draped wedding cake, by Sylvia Weinstock Cakes

The color scheme of your wedding also opens the opportunity to contribute to your wedding cake decorating. For example, Ms. Weinstock offers a stunning Crimson Draped Cake in a wide variety of flavors and fillings. All Ms. Weinstock’s cake are made of butter cream, and her flowers are hand made with sugar – no fondant is ever used.

Colette Peters, of Colette’s Cakes, can not only design a cake to match your wedding dress, but a wedding dress to match your cake. Ms Peters, creator of the wedding cake for Prince Pavlov of Greece, loves to combine fun and creativity for unexpected yet beautiful results. Cakeline’s “Marion” style cake, for example, resembles the bodice of a wedding gown.

Wedding cakes designed to coordinate with seasonal theme weddings leave plenty of room for your cake designer to come up with a unique and wonderful creation. For example, Ms. Peters has combined grapes, grape leave, dahlias and chrysanthemums in a fabulous fall celebration wedding cake. For the summer, Colette’s Cakes offers a delightful “Dreamy Summer Fun” cake adorned with tiny white daisies and bows.

Very unique: "Balancing Act," by Ron Ben-Israel

Your registry gift choices or favorite collectible can also serve as a basis for avery unique wedding cake. For the jade lover, designer Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes has created a fabulous four-tiered Jade Cake to resemble a stack of intricately wrought jade boxes. If diamonds are your thing, Colette’s cakes has a dazzling diamond theme cake that’s truly unique. Or perhaps you’d like your china pattern to set the theme for your wedding cake. Ron Ben-Israel, of Ron Ben-Israel Cakes, is a master of completely custom creations, and his work has included a masterpiece called “Balancing Act” inspired by the Gallerie Royale china pattern by Bernardaud.

If you know you want a truly unique wedding cake, it's something you should discuss with your cake designer from the start. Even if you don't have any especially unique wedding cake ideas yourself, you can be sure that your professional wedding cake designer will.

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