A Wedding Cake Spectacular: 14 Contemporary Cake Ideas

Good morn­ing! Who likes cake? And have you cho­sen your wed­ding cake yet? I’ve picked some of my favorite wed­ding cakes from all the real wed­dings on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog over the last few months, and thought it would be a great way to get a lit­tle wed­ding cake gallery going!

Click on the images to see the full wed­ding and please — if you’re the wed­ding cake designer and would like a credit, get in touch. (All of these pic­tures are taken from my real wed­dings, sub­mit­ted by wed­ding photographers)

My top 14 con­tem­po­rary wed­ding cake ideas

Tiered wed­ding cake ideas

These tiered wed­ding cakes are a con­tem­po­rary take on the clas­sic shape (and I’m a poet and I don’t even know it

But­ter­fly and white choco­late tiered wed­ding cake. Photo credit: Nor­swor­thy Photography

Lon­don tiered wed­ding cake idea Photo credit: Vick­er­staff Photography

Choc­cy­woc­cy­doo­dah tiered wed­ding cake Photo credit: Tino & Pip

Bright lego and but­tons wed­ding cake Photo credit: Lucy West Images

Cheese wed­ding cakes

Not in the least bit cheesy (ged­dit?!) cheese wed­ding cakes always look artis­tic, cre­ative… lit­tle sculp­tures almost! The tex­tured rinds and wrap­pers with bright flow­ers get me every time. Look at these beauties!

tiered cheese wed­ding cake idea Photo credit: Neil Redfern

Cheese wed­ding cake from Kew Gar­dens Photo credit Mar­tin Beddall

Cheese wed­ding cake idea Photo credit James P Lester

Wed­ding cup­cake ideas

Wed­ding cup­cakes can look stun­ning: there’s an art to cre­at­ing each indi­vid­ual dinky cake, and also to arrang­ing them beau­ti­fully! Here are a few of my favorite wed­ding cup­cake ideas:

Strik­ing tiers of pur­ple encased wed­ding cup­cakes Photo credit: Chris Han­ley Photography

Flamingo themed wed­ding cup­cakes for Wendy Bell’s Kens­ing­ton Roof Gar­dens wed­ding Photo credit: Green Olive

Assorted wed­ding cup­cake ideas Photo credit Pippa Mackenzie

Wed­ding cup­cakes for a coun­try gar­den theme Photo credit Pippa Mackenzie

Oh so glam­orous wed­ding cup­cakes Photo credit: ARJ Pho­tog­ra­phy Cheshire

Pur­ple wed­ding cup­cake idea — Photo credit Eliza Claire

Pure white wed­ding cup­cakes Photo credit Pete Barnes

Spots and stripes wed­ding cup­cakes Photo credit McAvoy Photography

I can see why choos­ing a wed­ding cake is such a big deci­sion! I love all of these… I’d be torn, I think, between the pure white cup­cakes, the cheese wed­ding cakes and of course that fab­u­lous Choc­cy­woc­cy­doo­dah tiered wed­ding cake.

Which is your favourite? Are you a wed­ding cake designer? You can con­tinue the blog post by adding your own wed­ding cake images using the com­ments form below. Just upload a pic­ture, 600 pix­els wide please (big­ger pics can break my blog a lit­tle bit!) to show­case your wares!

Claire xx