Help Please! What Can I Do For Wedding Tablescape?
Decorating By i_love_icing Updated 11 Aug 2006 , 10:04pm by i_love_icing
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to present the cake I'm making for my little sister's wedding.
I have some materials, and a very limited budget...the cake is a stacked 14, 10, 6 rounds, covered in coconut with gumpaste lilies and other flowers I bought. My sister would like it to be as simple looking as possible, but I don't want it to look bare either.
Her colors dark teal/blue and silver...but there are many different kinds of flowers in the blue/yellow/white range on the tables.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!! I am not creative AT ALL and can't afford a nice round silver stand like I had wanted to use.
Here's what I do have:
16" round 1/2" thick plywood base (could cover in fabric, fondant, etc...)
table has white tablecloth with dark teal/blue runner
Large square mirror (I think it's 18x18...maybe 24x24...sister wants to use this)
I'd like to give the cake some more height, so I was thinking about resting the base on some round clear cylinders, actually candle holders, but not sure how this would look...
kind of like this:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-photos_display_84_-54101.html
Thanks for any advice... 
here's what I've done with one of mine.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=xandra83&cat=0&pos=3
cake on mirror....
mirror raised off table (can use plain old bricks or strong box covered in fabric in one of the colors (suggest the darkest color)
fill gap between table and bottom of mirrow w/ an assorment of all the flowers used on the other table.
for extra support under mirror, up the plywood circle on top of the box and under mirror. cover it in fabric to match box/bricks
also cover table in dark color to make flowers pop
Thanks for all your ideas...I am so inexperienced at this! I just can't seem to visualize how it would look. Thanks again!
Thanks again, Doug. You are such a great help to everyone around here!! 
Hey.... i'm from KC too! there is a whole discussion on starting a MO cake club....did you guys see it?
mkerton and MommyEdzards... I'm near KC too.
Thanks again for all the help!
Doug...cookies only last for a day around here, if you're lucky 
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