The cake is such a wedding statement piece! The bride and I discussed the cake decorations ahead of time and I wanted to create a beautiful pastel rainbow on the cake that echoed her bouquet.
I got done with the backdrop and all of the bouquets and touch ups on all the floral headbands I went to the tent and was completely shocked by the color of the frosting ferns that garnished the cakes! We had talked about deep forest green ferns, but the color was very different than I was expecting and did not match with the brides "pastely" cake flower choices...
I believe that it turned out just beautiful and unique anyway, though, didn't it?
All my plans went out the window and I had to reinvent what I was doing on the fly! This is when having buckets full of flowers and willing hosts comes in very handy. I asked ushers to help me move all the buckets to the dinner tent and I started to dig in.
Pastels were out with this deep green and bright chartreuse frosting. But as the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention." and I had many beautiful things left over.
For the cake, I used white sweet peas, burgundy and Ferncliff copper dahlias from @connelsdahlias, chocolate cosmos, peach petunias (from the organic hanging baskets at the venue, I mean, I got creative), and then green hazelnuts from my tree, calendula blossoms, rose buds, burgundy bachelor buttons, white roses, pineapple sage, sweet pea greens, and mint sprigs.
After all the confusion, it really did turn out stunning and each piece made quite a statement!
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