Help! My Second Ever Wedding Cake Due In 3 Days!
Decorating By mom2aeml Updated 11 Sep 2007 , 5:27pm by kwdonlon
Hi everyone! I need your expertise! I am doing my second wedding cake in a few days and I am having trouble with the colors and placement of my roses. The bride wants a four tiered ivory cake with ivory, brown and lavender roses. I can't picture the roses grouped together nicely in those colors. Any suggestions or photos to help?? Thank you!
Sorry I can't picture those colors working together
The ivory and lavender, yes. But with BROWN???????
Maybe someone else has some ideas. Good Luck!
I think I would try to talk the bride into another decoration being brown.. to me, brown roses are dead roses and I don't know if that's the look she's going for!
Could the brown be more of a tan or mocha color? Dark brown is too much like black, and I tell my bride's I won't do black roses....too creepy!
I think if its more of a lite brown it could be very pretty.
I'd do rose buds in the brown, with the ivory and lavender the open flowers.
Good luck!
do the roses have to be brown or could you do lavender roses with a nice brown loops of ribbon?
I must be crazy cause I can TOTALLY picture those colors together lol.
if it helps, go to the paint store and get those "swatch" dealies or what ever they are called, and put the colors together and see.
also, I like what kathys90 said..
I think a light brown would match lavender and ivory well. One of my sisters is getting married next weekend and a shade of brown (truffle, I think) ended up being one of her colors. It looks much better than I thought it would. I think her colors ended up being ivory, lavender and brown, actually. I like the suggestion of making the brown roses buds, not quite open flowers. I'm making her wedding cake next week, but the flowers are all fresh (and I'm relying on the florist to bring them).
Good luck!
I am asuming that lavender is one of her colors so pink is out of the question. Pink and brown look sooo good together!!!!
I agree that brown roses would look "dead" too. I would do the roses lavender and add accents of brown somehwere else. Maybe swirls, dots all over or maybe the border. JMO K'ly
I wouldn't necessarily pick the colors but I don't think it would look horrible with the brown being an accent like in a ribbon or bow with lavender and ivory roses. Brown flowers just aren't natural unless they're dead of course.
Good luck!
Thanks everyone, for your ideas. I practiced putting together the three colors with all roses, using a lighter brown that ended up an aweful color! So today I made small chocolate brown apple blossoms with ivory pearl centers. I think it'll work!! Continue wishing me luck, I feel I need it...I am soooo nervous!! I feel like such a rookie! I will post the pic either way!!!
Well, here it is! Overall I am very happy with it! Considering it is my first fondant cake, my first stacked (with dowels and all) cake, and my second ever wedding cake!! I think the color combo with just a hint of the brown worked well in the end!! I learned alot from doing it and can see my areas that need improvement but at least it turned out better than I thought. Not to mention the anxiety kept me awake all night!!
Oh, and there's no topper because the bride is putting on her own. It would have looked nice with more of the flowers on top though!
Thanks everyone!!
I think you figured out a great way of incorporating all of the bride's colors...way to go - that cake is beautiful!
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