7 Wedding Cake Topper Ideas

Your wedding should be planned down to the smallest detail—so don’t forget the perfect cake topper. What is that, exactly? Cake toppers are small figurines, symbols, or lettering placed on top of the wedding cake. It’s a decorative element on top that deserves plenty of attention—and not just when the cake is cut. But there are also alternative trends we’d like to introduce to you now—for example, painting your wedding logo and other designs directly onto the wedding cake.

These cake toppers are all the rage

Of course, there are all kinds of options for the finishing touches on your wedding cake. To save you the trouble of searching for the most beautiful cake toppers, we’ve consulted with experts in the wedding industry and browsed through our extensive collection of wedding inspiration. Here are the seven trends that are here to stay:

1. Your Names as Cake Toppers

A truly beautiful element for a cake topper: your first names! With carefully chosen typography, the cake topper might even match the hand lettering on your stationery. Curvy, romantic letters work just as well as very clean lettering elements for a cake topper. As an alternative to writing out your full names, you can, of course, use your initials. You can read more about this in point five.

2. Cake topper with a short message

Whether it’s “Best Day Ever,” “Better Together,” or “Oh Happy Day”—a short message on your wedding cake really makes a statement! It’s also really sweet to have a few nice words on the cake when you cut it—after all, the wedding photographer will be snapping away quite a bit during the cake-cutting ceremony.

3. Funny or Provocative Cake Toppers

Yes, you should have a sense of humor if you’re going for a funny design as a cake topper. But if it fits you as a couple, go all out with the cake topper. Because regardless of the wedding theme, the wedding cake—including the cake topper—can definitely be a little out of the ordinary. Make your shared hobby the theme of your wedding cake, or come up with a funny typographic phrase. For example: “Married as fuck”! Or if it took you two decades to finally take the plunge, for instance, frame it humorously with the word “finally”!

4. The Traditional Cake Topper: The Bride and Groom

If you let a true pastry expert take the lead, you can’t go wrong with the most classic version of a cake topper. A marzipan bride and groom is far from old-fashioned—it can look really pretty, funny, or fancy. But be warned: creating bride-and-groom cake toppers is true craftsmanship—it’s best not to leave it to your best friend, but to hire a real pro.

5. Your Initials on the Wedding Cake

Whether your names are Bernd and Cornelia or Susanne and Valentin—an experienced pastry chef can create beautiful, delicate designs using your initials and paint them onto your wedding cake—just like this one from Sweet Art by Jules. The initials can be rendered in a very clean, elegant style, or they can be incorporated into a playful, curlicue script along with other decorative elements to form a cohesive design.

6. Wedding logo on the wedding cake

Has your wedding planner—or have you as a couple—gone to great lengths to ensure that the entire wedding has a cohesive look? Then it would be a shame not to feature your wedding logo—or symbol—that your wedding stationery designer created for you on the wedding cake. And even if the logo is quite delicate—we’re confident that the wedding cake designers listed on Austria Wedding can beautifully create your cake logo and place it on the cake.

7. The wedding vows on the wedding cake

On your big wedding day, you may have prepared some heartfelt words for your spouse—some couples write a poem or express their own thoughts in wedding vows. How wonderful would it be not only to hear those vows from your future spouse but also to see the words written on your wedding cake? This beautiful example comes from Olivia Cake Designs.

Make Your Own Cake Toppers

You can find DIY instructions for cake toppers on many online platforms and craft blogs. This is a great option for the occasional birthday and can also work for your wedding. But if you want to play it safe—especially considering all the photos that will feature the wedding cake in the foreground or background—you should opt for a cake topper made of high-quality materials:

• Line Art-Style Cake Toppers: Are you familiar with those delicately drawn line art images? You can have cake toppers made out of wire—they look just as stylish as those trendy line art posters.
• Acrylic cake toppers: They’re simple and can be easily personalized. Flat acrylic sheets can be repurposed later as decorative elements around the house.
• Wooden cake toppers: This durable, natural material is perfect for preserving as a keepsake—for example, as a wall decoration.

Or maybe no wedding cake topper after all?

You can also choose not to use a cake topper. Depending on the cake’s design, it may look better if it isn’t too cluttered. Real flowers or intricately sculpted sugar blossoms, as seen in this example from Olivia Cake Designs, remain a popular eye-catcher on wedding cakes. Our floral and wedding cake experts would be happy to advise you!