My sister's BFF is getting married, and she needs a shower cake to feed 100. The wedding is rustic (bridesmaids are carrying wooden flowers) but bride to be likes bling.

How can I incorporate both? I originally thought of a tree trunk kind of thing with fairies....but not sure.

Does rustic mean "country" or just "natural" to the bride? Do you have a picture of these wooden flowers? - it would help with inspiration and I'm just curious what that looks like! LOL

http://www.brendasweddingblog.com/blogs/2009/1/9/eye-candy-friday.html


The link above came under *rustic theme* when i went searching.


Perhaps the wooden flowers with *bling* centers
or you could make flowers in the colour of varying wood shades and again - insert a bling center.

Wood coloured Leaves with some bling dust gently sprinkled over them - perhaps.

Just thinking outloud here - lolllll


Bluehue

Oh, now this is truely elegant............Rustic with Bling - LOVE IT

Perhaps this might give you an idea

http://pics.boards.weddingbee.com/71732.crystal-wedding-trees.jpg

Bluehue

The first thing I thought of is the rosette cake that is all the rage on CC right now. http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1959314/

In an ivory color and with ivory or white sugar pearls in the centers. If you wanted to bling it out you could try and do a fondant silver broach in the middle of a few rosettes.

I think it's rustic and elegant at the same time.

I absolutely LOVE this one.

http://static.weddingandcakes.com/wcakes/2010/05/rustic-wedding-cakes.jpg

the ribbons could have jewels around them....if you don't object to non-edibles on your cakes.

Wow, those are all great, thank you!

I wasn't getting my usual emails that there were responses, so I'm sorry I didn't respond earlier.

I don't quite know what rustic means to the bride. I was dealing with the MOH and I don't have pics of the flowers. But those pics help, thank you!

You can definitely incorporate bling on a rustic cake.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakechester/3937620874/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandas_caketastic/4038774294/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finestationery/3884534188/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paradoxpastry/4882253034/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sprinklesandswirls/4966967120/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glassslippergourmet/5041135180/

imagenthatnj - you found some great examples! that 2nd one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/a.....038774294/) is AMAZING!! It reminds me of my grandmother, yet is elegant and beautiful still. Crazy how she(?) was able to pull that one off!

Kathie-d - LOL I read the beginning of it, figured it was toooooo much drama and didn't finish reading it...lol To each their own, man!

Karateka - did you decide on a theme? I'd love to see what you come up with!

Aren't those beautiful? The secret is muted bling, I think. Bronze and not-too-shiny golden tones. Otherwise it won't look cohesive. I don't think precious stones and shiny jewels would look too good.

Good luck karateka!

I'm still undecided. I think I found the flowers the bridesmaids are carrying, as my sis said they are from target.

http://www.target.com/Artificial-Flowers-Home-D%C3%A9cor/b/ref=sc_iw_r_1_1_1038616?node=370888011

I think they are the faux rose thingie.

Her colors are brown and coral. I'm thinking since she specifically mentioned rhinestones, I'd make a monogram topper with those on it, and do the cake in brown with coral flowers. Still mulling it over, but that's a working idea. I'll def post pics when I'm finished.

Thanks to all who posted. I really appreciate the input! I did search "rustic with bling" but most cakes I found were either rustic or bling, but not both! I guess I'm not great at designing searches.