Great timing on this thread...

Since I joined CC, I've said that I won't be able to have a wedding cake because I'll never be able to decide on what I want. Now that we are planning 'the big party,' I've been thinking about it a little.
I immediately said that I would make a kransekake, thinking that would solve my problems...incorporates my Norwegian heritage (many countries from our travels and heritage are being incorporated in the reception food--yummy!) and no design to pick out--there's only one style.
When my little sister heard my plan she said we needed to have real cake so she planned 4 kinds of cupcakes. Then my mom said that I have to have at least 1 tier for a cake cutting picture. I've been scanning the galleries for 2 days looking for something that I want, but so far nothing has really screamed "Me and Josh" so so I'm still searching for the perfect wedding cake.

Thanks to everyone for sharing pictures and stories.

I posted our 1977 wedding cake picture in My Photos because I do not know how to post it here in the forum. I got a good chuckle out of it! Hope you do, too.

This is an experiment to see if I'm improving technologically. If our wedding cake appears here, thanks, Doug!

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1415367

I'm actually getting married in September and just decided on what kind of cake I'm going to do.

There is a VERY limited selection of cake styles that you can get from bakeries in my area so I decided to go with a topsy turvy to have something really different and fun. I can just see the look on my family, and family in-law's faces... haha they are all so formal!

Besides that it's going to match the wedding colours: ivory, chocolate brown, and burnt orange. And the flavour is going to be chocolate and more chocolate!

I've got to agree with Jamie, I'd love to have a cake made by Natalie. Or Edna. So many great decorators!

I would LOVE a cake by Mike McCarey or Rosebud in L.A. I actually think I know the cake I want, now I just need the guy!

(Hopefully that'll come this December.

I would love to have my wedding cake redone. It was done by the reception hall. It was 3 tier, white on white with icing roses. The roses were supposed to be marroon; or even a dark red (we were married on Dec. 22 so everything was decorated with evergreens and dark red ribbons and white candles). They were PURPLE when I walked in!!

I looked back at my photos and the scroll work and piping was nicely done- but it was a traditional New England wedding cake. And the topper was this cheap fake white flower arch thing with the bride and groom under it. I broke off the bride and groom and threw away the arch.

The cake was also a white cake- blech. I'm chocolate all the way. I can't even believe I had a white cake.

If I could do it over I'd have a 5 tier chocolate - each tier either the color of a bridesmaids dress, with the top being ivory for my dress or the whole thing ivory with accents/piping in the different colors. Each girl had a different color- 1 was midnight blue, one was midnight maroon, and one was midnight green, and my flower girl was a deep rose. I got the idea when I saw a poster in a dressing room while trying on gowns of 4 girls in the 4 colors- my bridesmaids lived in California, Massachusetts, Switzerland and I was in New Hampshire- so I was in a "fitting dilemna". They picked which color they wanted and I let them use whatever dress they wanted.

Don't know who I'd have make it though. That's a toughy.

My wedding cake was elegant in white with small blue flowers. It was the most fabulous carrot cake! A family friend made the cakes in Arkansas, drove to Minnesota and decorated it.

I would order my cake from a CC'r, her name I do not remember, but she owns a shop in Orlando called Design Me A Cake. I would want white fondant with bright flowers, including daisies.

Now, that I'm thinking of it, my 20th anniversary is next month and I've never made a wedding cake. Who better to practice on than myself. Now I'll really have to start thinking.

This was my wedding cake, over 9 years ago:
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff8/ShelleyFluegge/cake.jpg

For my 9th anniversary I made a knock off top tier of the cake. Im not a professional and I hardley ever pipe but it was way fun!!
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs126.snc1/5413_234983005321_659045321_7921697_8286785_n.jpg

If I were to pick a cake today it would probably be similar to this:
http://media.cakecentral.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/58117/normal_DSC_1319.jpg