I need some major help for a wedding cake that is to be done for June 30th! THe bride wants a cake like the attached birthday cake, just with on more tier with stripes and she loves the color combination. The thing is that it would work because her color is Navy, however, she also wants to incorporate fresh flowers - gerber daisies colored pink, orange and yellow!
I want this cake to look nice and she is willing to change the colors, but wants Navy on the cake for sure and the daisies.
So, what colors would look best on the cake and won't clash with the flowers?
Yeah, that's just too much going on. There's like 3 shades of blue in the cake pic, right? That's way too much. I'd stick with white and navy and the lime green as the main colors and the yellow, orange, and pink as accents, but mostly just in the flowers (a little of each color here and there on the rest of the cake to make it all tie in).
Do the bottom tier white with navy blue dots where the dark blue dots are and yellow, pink, and orange ones where the light blue dots are. Reverse the ribbon, so that it's a navy blue ribbon with a lime green stripe.
Do the striped tier with narrow navy blue and green stripes and do a bead border on the bottom with white. For the ribbon on this tier, do pink with a yellow stripe and an even smaller orange stripe OR really tiny stripes of orange, yellow, and pink.
Do the diamond tier with a white background and navy blue diamonds and the beads on the bottom border in the lime green and the ribbon in the lime green. Then the pink, yellow, and orange gerberas on top with navy blue, white, and lime curly ribbon.
I'm assuming all the roses in the pic are going to be gerberas?
Anyway, that's how I would do it.
HTH
WOW, thanks, I knew someone would help! I especially like the idea about the dot tier! And I wanted to put more white on the cake, so the diamond tier with a base of white is also what I had in mind. I just could not imagine how I might tie all those colors in together and not make it look like a clowns cake! I think all of those colors are beautiful and wouldn't think twice on a birthday cake, but a wedding cake is something I want to look beautiful, not just fun, if you know what I mean. Again , thanks for all your help!
Thanks soooo much! Glad I could be of help! I agree w/ you about the colors BTW - sounds great for a birthday, but for a wedding??!!?? Guess I'm just old fashioned - I like white or off white for wedding cakes and just the tiniest bit of color, like in the flowers or something. As long as the bride's happy, that's all that really matters, tho! I can't wait to see the end result!
Thanks again for the help with the colors! The cake turned out beautiful (IMHO). 
I just could not picture it in my head how I was going to do it, but I was sooo happy that prterrell could help me picture the cake so I was confident with how it would look going in! Everyone, most importantly the wedding couple, loved it! And yes, it is a very different wedding cake.
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