Although some weddings call for a beautiful and extravagant wedding cake, some couples nowadays are opting for some fun and modern alternatives to the traditional cake. Cupcakes and cake pops have been the popular choices in the recent past and now more creative alternatives, such as eclairs, truffles, donuts, and macaroons. The alternative ideas are endless and simply sweet and delicious! Other couples have chosen the not-so sweet alternatives such as cheese, pizza, and even sushi!

Cake Shooters, cakeshooters.com

Cake Balls, Austin Cake Ball

Cheese, Eatmywedding.com

Crepe Cake, Eatmywedding.com

Cupcakes, Martha Stweart Weddings

Donut Cake, Eatmywedding.com

Macaroons, youandyourwedding.com

Pizza Cake, eatmywedding.com

Truffle Cake, Martha Stweart Weddings

Purple, a symbol of royalty and passion, has always been a favorite from weddings. With such a rich pallet to choose from, such as plum, eggplant, lavender, violet and lilac,we’ll be seeing a whole lot of purple this wedding season.

The beauty of a purple wedding is the amount of rich purple colored flowers to choose from such as orchids, eggplant calla lilies, lilacs, violets, hydrangeas, freesias, hibiscus, irises, lavenders, anemones.  Here are a few of our favorite purple picks!

Purple Color Pallet

Enzoani Wedding Gown

Purple Jewels, Weddingish.com

Purple Bridesmaid Dress, Vera Wang

Purple Wedding Cake, Sacred Sweets

Purple Details, Elizabeth Anne Designs

Purple Centerpieces, photo credit: Pam Scott

Purple Wedding Flowers, photo credit: Pam Scott

One of the most important details of a wedding is of course the cake.  You want the wedding cake to be the ultimate expression of your wedding theme and the design of your wedding cake is not complete without the perfect cake topper.  And when it comes to cake toppers, it’s all in the details. These days, it’s out with the old and in with the gold!
Here are a few golden cake toppers we found featured on Brides.com.

Aluminum sculpture replica, $75, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Gold-wire orb, $36 for set of three, Chiasso.

Brassy mod initials. $50 each, Gauge NYC.

And some popular Monogram Cake Toppers from Weddingish:

Gold Crystal Accented Monogram Cake Topper Set $89.95 Weddingish.com

Sparkling Gold Heart & Initial Cake Topper, $89 Weddingish.com