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Planning a winter wedding? Get ideas for winter wedding cakes, and the best winter wedding dresses.
Wedding Flowers
Red roses, calla lilies, and amaryllis are decidedly winter wedding flowers, but if you step outside the flower box, and you’ll find a variety of options for winter blooms.
What’s Hot Now: Consider fuller flowers, such as white hydrangeas and soft ranunculuses. White boutonnieres can be handsome when they’re accented with greenery, but they also look great with a simple white ribbon. Add sparkle to your bouquet by wrapping the stems in ribbon embellished with crystals.
Centerpieces
Go beyond glowing candles to add both warmth and romance to your reception site.
What’s Hot Now: If you want to heighten the drama, bring in the icy outdoors with ice-carved vases on your reception tables. Have your florist fill the vases with tall winter-white branches and hanging crystals to reflect the light from the tables. Surround the centerpieces with votive candles, and top your tables with white dupioni table linens and frosted glass china.
Wedding Colors
Reds and greens certainly reflect the season, but overdo this color combo, and your wedding may seem more holiday-oriented than you intended.
What’s Hot Now: Consider a less-is-more approach to your color palette: Silver and white with crystal accents can add some serious glamour to your winter wedding. For your ceremony, try a white velvet aisle runner trimmed with white satin ribbon, or decorate the altar with a crystal curtain backdrop adorned with hanging strands of elegant white phalaenopsis orchids. If you’re exchanging vows outdoors, get your guests in on creating the ambience by giving out clear umbrellas to friends and family members as they arrive.
Wedding Cake
A wedding cake trimmed in red or green ribbon or topped with roses looks pretty, but bakers who are willing to push the fondant envelope can reflect the winter in totally creative ways.
What’s Hot Now: Play up the season with a white, vintage-style cake, dusted with edible silver powder. For accents, have your baker add a white sugar ribbon and crystal drops cascading down one side of the cake.
Since winter weddings are usually held indoors (it’s an ideal time for ballroom receptions), they often call for a more formal invitations.
What’s Hot Now: A black-tie event is nicely conveyed by heavy cardstock and a navy blue, chocolate-brown, or even eggplant font with hand calligraphy. For a fresh way to achieve a formal tone for your winter wedding, use thick, frosted Plexiglas invitations in white scripted ink. Send the sturdy invites out to all your guests tucked into silver envelope liners.
Adding flowers to a wedding cake adds drama, beauty, and color, and it is important not to overwhelm the cake’s design with additional details such as elaborate icing, extravagant colors, unique shapes, or unusual designs. To highlight the flowers, a simple round tiered cake is best, with icing to coordinate with the color of the flowers – generally white or ivory icing is best. Simple details such as icing dots or small embellishments can subtly add more intricacy to the cake, but too many details can be overwhelming and garish.
Some couples prefer to avoid using fresh flowers on their wedding cake but still want the beauty and elegance of floral decorations. Fortunately, bakery artisans can create stunningly lifelike flowers from marzipan, sugar paste, fondant, or gum paste that can be as intricate and realistic as true blooms. Couples should be aware, however, that these faux flowers require considerable expertise and labor, which can drastically increase the wedding cake price, particularly if many flowers are required. More affordable options include using silk wedding flowers on the cake or using egg whites and crystalline sugar to add a touch of edible sparkle to real flowers.
Simple wedding cakes with fresh flowers can be a gorgeous centerpiece of a wedding reception as well a delicious dessert for the happy couple to share with their guests.