Wedding Cake Decorating Ideas Please

by Stephanie
(U.S.)

I could use help with with wedding cake decorating ideas. I took on the big challenge of baking my friends wedding cake and this will be my first one! And to make it even more challenging I'm in the Wedding party!!

I have the confidence in baking the cake and stacking the cake but decorating is where I'm lost. She has her cake topper picked out already. (see the picture) but I cannot seem to make the topper flow with the design ideas that the bride has chosen.

I'm going to do a 3 tier cake with a back up sheet cake. The reason I have to do sheet cake is because she ordered a wood slice cake platter that is 18x12 and I don't have an oval cake pan to fit to that size. So the cake will be 11'' 8'' 5'' this way you can still see the tree bark.

She has told me she likes the cluster pearls from the attached cake. I would do that as the middle tier. And for the bottom tier gumpaste roses with green leaves and dragees place in the rose either scattered around the bottom or clustered in groups.

I would be ordering the roses, leaves, dragees from Global Sugar Art. I feel that it doesn't seem to flow right and I don't know how to make it flow. I don't even know what to do to the top tier.

I feel as if I need to copy something from the cake topper to bring it all together. Please help me in any way you can. Any advice is better than none :) I'm open to new ideas nothing is set in stone yet.

Thank you