55 of the Prettiest Floral Wedding Cakes

• Floral wedding cakes can match any wedding style, from rustic barn celebrations with wildflowers to sleek city events with orchids.
• You can mix fresh flowers, sugar blooms, or painted designs to create a unique cake that reflects your vision.
• Incorporating flowers into your cake design reinforces your wedding theme and color palette while adding timeless elegance.

Utilize an Array of Flowers

Your floral wedding cake doesn't have to be topped with just one type of bloom, and that's true whether you're going with fresh or sugar flowers. Case in point? This sweet confection from Icon Cake Cincinnati, which was served at one couple's tented wedding in Ohio. Inspired by the bride's dress, the baker created sheer 3D sugar flowers for the top of the cake, then added a spray of even more sugar flowers—this time in tropical hues—for the bottom.

Choose a Design With Movement

Sweet Freak Pastry took this bride's dessert vision ("I was interested in a floral motif that also had some movement," she said) and made it a reality for her winter wedding in Texas. The four-tiered lemon raspberry cake was decorated with trailing, colorful piped flowers, and the colorful look was proof that you don't need fresh or three-dimensional sugar flowers to create an eye-catching floral weddign cake.

Pick a Frosting Color That Allows Your Flowers to Pop

Knowing that a delicious wedding cake was a priority for this sugar-loving couple, who tied the knot in Seattle, Midori Cakes created a tiered confection that looked as good as it tasted. On the big day, the duo sliced into a tiered chocolate wedding cake with rice paper flowers, which popped against the French blue buttercream frosting.

Select Sugar Iterations of Your Wedding Flowers

This flower-filled wedding in the Pacific Northwest was decorated with over 3,000 fresh roses, so a floral cake was practically required. Instead of bringing in more blooms, though, the couple asked Honey Crumb Cake to create sugar flowers inspired by the David Austin roses seen throughout the wedding. Hand-painted floral details helped round out the design.

Remember That Florals Pair Well With Other Embellishments

Deciding on a floral wedding cake doesn't mean you have to eschew all other design elements. At this Indianapolis wedding, the couple worked with The Cake Bake Shop to create a two-tiered treat with buttercream dots that was wrapped in a pastel swag of fresh blooms.

Let Your Cake to Reinforce Your Day's Floral Vision

If fresh flowers are a major part of your wedding's theme, as they were at this couple's Birmingham wedding, make sure to choose a dessert that fits the vibe. The four-tiered floral wedding cake by Barb’s Cakes featured a vine of sugar flowers and was displayed among an arch of greenery and white blooms.

Know That Delicate Vines Can Make a Big Impact

Floral wedding cakes don't have to be dripping in fresh blooms to make a bold statement. Lila Cake Shop created this three-tiered confection for an outdoor wedding in Malibu, and a trailing floral vine was all that was necessary to take the treat to the next level.

Don't Be Afraid to Mix Fresh and Sugar Flowers

At this romantic Cape Cod wedding, the couple worked with B.Wild Baking Co. to create a floral wedding cake that featured palette knife buttercream flowers in pastel shades that matched the floral décor surrounding it. The display is proof that frosting and fresh flowers can exist together and beautifully complement one another.

Play With Scale

If you love flower motifs, encourage your baker to play with scale and maximize the impact of your floral wedding cake. At this wedding in California, the couple asked Divine Desserts by Aguirre to create a single-tier cutting cake with pale purple flowers. Instead of scaling down the design, their baker made it the defining element of the confection, spreading from top to bottom.

Select an All-White Design

White is the classic wedding color for a reason: It always works. All-white floral wedding cakes are no exception. For their fashion-forward wedding in California, the couple asked Sheila Mae to create a white-on-white confection topped with delicate sugar florals. “We opted for something clean, sculptural and classic,” the bride said.

Choose Classic, Understated Elements

Just because you're planning a thematic event—in this case, the bride and groom threw a rustic wedding in Montana—you don't have to lean into that aesthetic for your wedding cake. This two-tiered dessert was finished with two sprays of classic pale pink and white flowers for a simple, understated look.

Make Your Cake Display Work With the Theme, Too

Sure, a floral wedding cake looks beautiful all on its own, but displaying it on a bed of flowers makes it all the more eye-catching. At this wedding at a French castle, baker No More Penguins decorated the three-tiered dessert with fresh flowers and greenery, then displayed it in a cake meadow made from the same blooms.

Consider a Bas Relief Design

Planning a vintage-inspired event? Choosing the right floral wedding cake design can help drive that theme home. At this wedding in Arizona, the three-tiered cake from A Bake Shop featured a bas relief flower and dragonfly motif.

Ask Your Florist and Baker to Work in Tandem

For their modern, coastal wedding in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, this couple asked their baker, Mink Hollow Baking, and their florist, Found Floral, to collaborate on their flower-studded cake. The end result was a three-tiered chocolate raspberry cake with cream cheese frosting that had been whimsically decorated with fresh flowers like dahlias, cosmos, scabiosa, poppies, and more.

Choose an Art-Inspired Design

At this couple's Christmas-themed wedding in Washington, D.C., they asked luffy Thoughts Cake to create a wedding cake inspired by a still life painting by Dutch painter Jan Davidz de Heem. The resulting confection featured a mix of painted flower design and fresh floral embellishments.

Channel a Garden Theme in New Ways

There's no right or wrong way to plan a wedding, which means there's no one way to decorate a floral wedding cake. At this moody garden wedding in Connecticut, the team at Cutie Pies created a funfetti dessert and topped it with fresh flowers pressed right into the buttercream frosting.

Draw Inspiration From Other Parts of Your Celebration

If you know you want a floral wedding cake but you aren't sure what you want it to look like, consider other elements of the big day—you never know where you'll find inspiration! For this wedding in California, The Butter End created a five-tiered cake that was decorated in sugar flowers that were inspired by the bride's custom veil.

Choose Punchy Colors

Who says a wedding cake has to be all white? At this sunset-hued wedding in Texas Hill Country, only a colorful confection would do. Polkadots Bakery delivered on bright, punchy color and floral motifs in the form of a five-tier amaretto cake that was finished with sculpted icing flowers in shades of yellow, orange, and pink.

Pair Sugar Flowers With Preserved Greenery

A nice foil to the sugar flowers on your wedding cake? Preserved moss. The latter enhances the floral aesthetic while adding a natural element to the mix. That's exactly what Flour and Bloom Cakes did when creating this three-tiered dessert for a summer wedding in California—the grosgrain texture of the fondant mirrored the couple's invitation suite, and pink sugar flowers appeared to be blooming straight out of the moss on the cake plate.

Keep It Central to the Day's Design

Are you designing a wedding with big, impactful floral moments? Then make sure your cake is in keeping with the celebration's overarching design. At this garden wedding in Mexico, flowers were a key

Set the Scene

There's no such thing as too many flowers! Set the scene with an incredible display of blooms on your cake table, then add a few to your cake to bring the design together. Shannon Star Cakes created this lofty confection and used two delicate sprays of blooms that tied back to the day's overarching floral palette for a lovely, cohesive look.

Use Painted and Real Flowers

For this Monet-inspired wedding, The Butter End treated fondant like a blank canvas by painting on botanicals and butterflies. Then the real thing—vines of morning glory and fresh roses, plus pincushions and moss from Celio’s Design—brought the artistic scene to life. Needless to say, this is one of our favorite wedding cakes with flowers to date.

Go for a Floral Sash

If you're hoping to have a larger-than-life wedding cake at your reception, you're probably brainstorming a few ways to dress up all that fondant. Let this couple's seven-tier confection, made by Barb’s Cakes, inspire your own: A cream, pink, and magenta floral sash, courtesy of Silks A Bloom, was wrapped around each layer. The finishing touch? A gold crest, complete with the couple's initials.

Add Flowers Below Your Cake

Your wedding cake stand should speak to both the style of your party and the dessert you're serving—which is why we love the acrylic-covered "bed" of baby's breath this pair used at their classic event in North Carolina. The dainty, on-trend bloom reappeared on the actual cake, alongside cream-hued roses, and was also featured heavily on the reception's tabletops.

Make a Meadow

Don't want to put actual flowers on your wedding cake? Place them around your confection, instead. This emerging trend is called a "cake meadow," and involves filling your dessert station with lush blossoms, which is exactly what Flour & Bloom Cakes did at Philadelphia Eagle player Jordan Mailata's California nuptials. Pro tip: This is a great way to repurpose some of your ceremony floral arrangements.

Add Pressed Florals and Botanicals

We love seeing pressed florals used on wedding cakes—they're a minimal, two-dimensional way to work more color and texture onto your big-day confection. They were also the perfect addition to this pair's greenhouse wedding in Vietnam.

Lean on Your Color Palette

Don't forget that your big-day cake is an extension of your wedding décor—which is why your dessert really should reinforce your event's color palette. One of the easiest (and most budget-friendly!) ways to do this is to add blossoms to your confection, since your florist will likely have a few on-palette extras on hand. At this vibrant, cultural celebration, for example, Lady M worked several of the event's flowers, like peonies, ranunculus, and marigolds, onto this cake for an impactful, but cohesive display.

Mix Real and Buttercream Flowers

Who says a wedding cake with flowers has to include only fresh blooms? Feel free to pair both buttercream (or even sugar!) buds with the real stuff for a wedding cake with double the texture. That's exactly what Cake Hero did at this farm-to-table-inspired summer wedding in New York; frosted florals were the perfect backdrop to a winding branch of dogwoods.

Place Blooms in Bursts

If a minimal cake is more your style, put this petite, sparingly decorated wedding cake on your radar. These grooms, who tied the knot in Brooklyn, asked the pastry chef at the Wythe Hotel to use just a few strategic blooms, provided by Designs by Ahn; they were placed on top and on the edges of each tier to keep all of the attention on the dessert's buttercream texture.

Go Organic

Instead of fresh flowers, consider using dried and pressed flowers in natural hues for a wild and whimsical look. We love how this two-tiered design, created by Desserts by Deena, exudes so much personality with plenty of texture.

Decorate Tiers With Chamomile

Chamomile is entirely edible, making it the perfect flower to place on top of cakes. Plus, it's absolutely adorable with dainty petals. Add a few blooms, or decorate your whole cake for a fairy-tale design.

Space Them Out

A few blooms dotted throughout a cake can make such a stunning statement. We love the way these vibrant flowers pop against a multi-tiered white cake.

Keep It Classic

Looking for a timeless design? With matching white flowers, this buttercream wedding cake is fit for any type of celebration—from casual to more formal weddings.

Mix Flowers and Fruit

A floral wedding cake can feature more than just fresh flowers—if you want it to, that is. We love the way this cascade of blooms (like dahlias, roses, and lisianthus), figs, and grapes complement the textured buttercream on the cake.

Use a Textile as Inspiration

Want your floral wedding cake to wow your guests? Then encourage your cake artist to showcase their incredible skills. A dress inspired the stunning design of this cake, created by Sweet Heather Anne, and it was the perfect fit for one couple's glamorous wedding.

Go Bold With a Colorful Cascade

Do you love your wedding's color palette? Put it front and center on your wedding cake, as Cake Chicago did here. The cascade of purple flowers down this sleek white confection helped reinforce the signature hues used throughout the celebration.

Match Your Dinner Plates

Looking for inspiration for a unique cake design? This couple asked Maison de la Fork to create a confection to match the dinner plates that would be used at their reception. That included a stunning hand-painted motif and a few blooms to make it pop.

Opt for Ombré

Want to make a colorful floral statement? Use a variety of colorful blooms, as Made in Cake did here. The tall, sleek confection was the perfect backdrop for an ombré spray of flowers, including roses, clematis, sweet peas, lisianthus, and hydrangeas.

Wow With Red

Don't be afraid to go bold with color, even on a smaller cake. The collection of vibrant red blooms on top of this semi-naked cake from Hey There, Cupcake! was simple and stunning.

Opt for Watercolor Details and Orchids

If you've asked your baker to whip up a colorful wedding cake, keep the dessert's overarching palette in mind if you also decide to add flowers. It ultimately might be best to keep those blooms neutral, as this wedding cake by the hotel chef at the St. Regis Atlanta proved. The team used orchids to keep the attention on the fondant's blue watercolor marbling—but the bloom's unique shape ensured some extra visual intrigue.

Showcase Orchids

Orchids immediately evoke a feeling of elegance. For a sophisticated sweet, choose a white cake paired with a cascade of these pretty blooms, just as Lush Cakery created her.

Commission a Masterpiece

Not all floral cakes include fresh blooms, and that's perfectly fine. The artistry on this cake, which was created by Sugar Euphoria, was absolutely awe-inspiring and proof that there's no right or wrong way to create a floral wedding cake.

Make It Beachy

Want a cake for a beach wedding without looking to something blue? Choose a white cake with tan, textured leaves. Add a bright pop of color with just a few blooms to complete the look, just as Jim Smeal did here.

Go Bold With Black and Florals

A black wedding cake is sure to be a showstopper, but if you want it to command even more attention, ask your baker to add painted blooms, along with fresh flowers. Flour & Flourish took the mixed-medium approach on this three-tiered floral wedding cake to stunning effect.

Top With Hydrangeas

Hydrangeas are such a dreamy summer flower, and they're perfect on a cake! Case in point? This petite confection from Roaring Gap Club, which featured blue-purple hydrangeas along with dogwood flowers for a sweet, summery look.

Press on Multi-Color Flowers

Pressed flowers on cakes are never going out of style. We love the look of this wedding-day sweet, which was created by Morfey’s Cake, with plenty of petals and greenery in a variety of hues.

Choose Sugar Flowers

Sugar flowers are crafted in a way that they look real! Consider several sugar flowers on top of your cake for a colorful, yet elegant, design, like this one Samantha Mayfair Cakes created for a couple's wedding.

Play With Pastels

Sticking with a more subtle color palette? Plan your florals to match! Pair a few pastel roses with an otherwise white cake for a lovely look just like this one, which was created by the catering team at Hotel Bel-Air.

Play With Peonies

Peonies are actually edible, and they make the most stunning addition to any cake, as evidenced by this tiered Enjoy Cupcakes confection. Consider adding just one big peony on a single-tiered cake, or pair plenty of fresh blooms with a textured cake to make a statement.

Play With Paint

Use your wedding flowers to inspire your cake design, and mix and match between fresh and painted. We can't get over the artistry on this elegant cake by Nine Cakes.

Make It Grow

Want to bring your cake to life? Display your wedding day sweet outside, and incorporate sprouting blooms throughout for an incredible, nature-inspired design just like this one from Sweet Heather Anne.

Include Edible Orchids

We can't get over the stunning dusty mauve color of this three-tiered cake from Hey There, Cupcake!. Still, it's the edible orchids on top that make it that much more memorable.