Wedding Cake Toppers | Cake Toppers

Although the traditional plastic badly designed bride and groom wedding cake toppers are still a viable option, the array of choices one has for wedding cake toppers today is immense.

Indeed, the traditional bride and groom wedding cake toppers have improved greatly over the years, and some cake decorators even have the ability to match hair and eye color, tux and wedding dress of the wedding cake toppers to the actual real life models.

Many unique stock wedding cake toppers exist too. Speak with your cake decorator about these choices. They should have some comprehensive catalogs that feature different wedding cake toppers and matching one to the bride and groom's personality is only a matter of flipping through some pages. A good Internet search can turn up a plethora of stock wedding cake topper choices as well.

Some stock wedding cake toppers can include toppers for interracial couples, sports wedding cake toppers, stylish monogram wedding cake toppers, career oriented cake toppers. Basically, you can find wedding cake toppers that sport a anything from a sexy playfulness to a funny wedding cake topper.

If you are unable to find a stock wedding cake topper to match your individual tastes, don't be discouraged. A wedding cake topper can be custom designed and made to order. If you and your better-half to-be are huge bad zombie movie fans and want zombies donning the top your cake, you most likely are not going to find stock wedding cake toppers to match. However, don't give-up. No matter how crazy your idea may seem to others, discuss these concerns with your cake decorator.

Also, consider designing a cake so that it does not need a topper-think of the Julia Roberts movie Steel Magnolias and the armadillo wedding cake. You may want to do something other than an armadillo design though.

Even if you go all out and go absolutely overboard with your cake design, you may still want to include a wedding cake topper, and if you want a more unorthodox cake designed ala Steel Magnolias style, you may want to consider an edible wedding cake topper.

When choosing a wedding cake topper, keep the following tips in mind:

• The wedding cake topper really shouldn't overpower or overshadow the cake
• Choose a wedding cake topper that matches your personality
• Don't be afraid to be creative
• Choose a wedding cake topper themed around your cake design
• Coordinate you wedding cake topper with the current season and your wedding colors

Wedding cake toppers don't just have to be for weddings though. Birthday parties for kids are opportune times to utilize a cake topper. If your daughter collects Barbie dolls, consider designing a cake topper around a Barbie theme. If you son collects matchbox cars, consider designing a cake topper around a matchbox car theme.

And don't only think birthdays and weddings either. Cake toppers can be used on office party cakes, retirement celebration cakes, baptismal cakes-even cakes just for the heck of it.