I have been doing wedding cakes for a year, and I've accomplished every crazy thing I've ever set out to do. Now I'm stumped by something I'm sure is really easy. My friend wants fresh real baby roses cascading down the side of her cake like a waterfall - like the pic I'm attaching, but fresh flowers instead of icing flowers. She is buying the roses herself, and I'm coming to the venue that morning with the cake to arrange the flowers. Now, if she wanted icing flowers, this would be an obvious no-brainer...just stick them on with icing. But fresh flowers? I've only used fresh flowers already arranged by the florist and ready to stick on the cake with those plastic picks. What she wants would involve the individual rose heads being placed, or maybe there is a way to wire them together in a broad band and place it on the cake? I just don't think "gluing" each one on with icing seems right...I know that roses are edible, but I've always been told there needs to be something separating the flowers from the cake regardless. Anyone ever done something like this? Please help!!!

There's some "rule", but I can't say what it is accurately. Was it 3, 5, 7, 10? Or something like that? Can someone help?

Whoops. I forgot to say, welcome to CC!

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I don't know if this will help or not, but the above is a link to one of my cakes with cascading real flowers. They weren't roses, but many of them are just the floral head. I attached those by putting a blob of icing on the cake and using that as a "glue" base to attach the floral. When I cut the cake for the couple, it was easy to remove the florals and the icing blob they were sitting in.

I would pick up some water picks and put the flowers in those. I wouldn't want fresh flowers attached right to my cake. Even though some flowers are edible you have to be sure they are grown for that. The ones at the florist aren't. They use spray on them that could be harmful.

take floral tape and green wire with you - you can wire them in a cascade

Thanks guys for all the help! I have some small water picks, but it seems like they wouldn't hold many stems...wouldn't I need a ton of them? I guess I'll try a combination of wiring them and the picks.