It's my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and I've been asked to do the cake. It's for around 40-50 people and I have no idea what to do! The colors are teal, purple and orange and it sort of has a garden party theme. The centerpieces are flower pots, tea pots and tea cups with flowers. I want to make a beautiful cake but I kind of want to keep it simple. I don't want to do fondant and I'm not good at doing any kind of flowers yet. I am also making down here (in Phoenix) and taking north, a 4 hour road trip! I'm such a perfectionist and I'm totally worried about screwing it up! Do you have any ideas? Pictures would be super helpful!
She sent me some pictures of the plates and napkins and they have floral, scrollwork, stripes, so there's quite a bit to get some ideas from. Unfortunately my phone isn't letting me upload pics right now.

Thanks in advance!!!

Here are the pics of the napkins and plates she is using.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i22/tanya4285/Sunflower4x4122908005.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i22/tanya4285/Sunflower4x4122908004.jpg
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Here's the third one again.
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This cake has a purple and teal tier with a black board and you could add scroll work or flowers to match the theme instead. Maybe you could use the orange for the scroll work??

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1328226


something like this with your colours, and you could always use the #50 as a topper instead of the flowers:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1235438


or this:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=51089




Here are some more cakes with the colours you mentioned just for the colour combo's to see what you like:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1252783


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Frds361a-E/SNaEQ3O9TSI/AAAAAAAAAk0/Mi43D_ZbfdY/s400/Orange+Teal+Wedding+Cake.JPG

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1171503


http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1384341

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1233646

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1148961

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1255399

Hope these pics give you some ideas.

Thank you so much for all of those examples!!!!

Your welcome.


I forgot to add these serving guide links in case you need them (I added both the wedding and party serving sizes for 2" deep pans only):

http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-wedding-cake-2-inch-pans.cfm

http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-party-cake-2-inch-pans.cfm

You could do brush embroidry for the flowers

To take a quote from Bronwen's class... "All of my flowers are individually hand made... (in Indonesia!)" ... Seriously, there are some reputable sites that sell sugarpaste flowers premade that you can purchase to put on the cake yourself and if anything else, get some luster dust to give them a sheen... Also, it's a lot cheaper to buy them (even though some aren't cheap!) than it is to purchase all the stuff for making them yourself and the value of your time. A few bunches go a LONG way in terms of pulling off different looks on cakes.

Hopefully that helps with some ideas that you might have thought weren't in reach that now are