You've planned out everything for your upcoming sea and beach wedding. You’ve ordered tropical flowers, invitations, checked the tide tables and picked a beautiful wedding dress festooned with pearls and shells. Now it’s the time to select the perfect wedding cake for your sea and beach nuptials. If you are planning to make your beach wedding a casual affair, cupcakes and petit fours are both easy to serve and can be decorated with any of the beach themes on which you have decided. Tropical Flowers - One of the most stunning elements of a tropical beach wedding is the abundant tropical flower. Whether your cake designer uses fresh blossoms or creates flowers from icing or other edibles, flowers can adorn your cake in bouquets, cascades or elegant edgings.
The Beach Boardwalk – With Roller Coasters and Merry-Go-Rounds surrounded by colorful balloons and beach umbrellas this can truly be a joyful expression of life on the waters edge with surfers riding the waves joining in the fun. Sandcastles - The most delicious sandcastle you have ever tasted could be your wedding cake. A baked confection in the shape of a sandcastle – as elaborate as you can imagine – is the perfect cake for a playful couple. If you use a natural colored sandcastle cake, you can use brown sugar for the "sand" and place seashells around the base of your castle.
Seashells - One of the favorite decoration motifs is based on the seashell. Seashells can be incorporated into the wedding cake easily in many ways. Seashells can be created from icing, molded chocolate (dark, milk or white chocolate), marzipan, or other confections. The colors used can include pinks, blues and whites in any shade the bride desires. Some wedding cakes incorporate real seashells as a key part of the design.
It’s important to use naturally colored varieties that do not overwhelm other elements of your cake. Consider using seashells with real flowers for an elegant and natural wedding cake design.
Sea Life - What dolphin-loving bride wouldn't love a wedding cake topped with waves crafted of curls of white chocolate and molded chocolate dolphins. Or how about a pearl-motif cake topped with oyster or clamshell confections holding a miniature bride and groom, rings or other wedding icons. Other possibilities include seabirds, whales, sea horses and mermaids. Other Beach Themes - Beach wedding brides can find inspiration for their wedding cakes almost anywhere. The location of your wedding can give you ideas for your once in a lifetime event. A scenic lighthouse, harbor, wharf, cliffs, boats, palm trees or an ocean sunset can give you the theme and decorations for your beach wedding cake.
For those that appreciate surfing, boating or other beach sports can use designs drawn from their hobbies. Sailboats setting out on the voyage of married life can be another allegory for your cake. Or imagine your cake with bride and groom surfers riding the crest of that perfect wave of a lifetime. And how about beach volleyball and your wedding cake decorated with a player spiking the ball over the net and another digging for the save.
For the Central Coast, sea & beach wedding themes seem to be a natural choice for your special day.
