Need Help With Wedding Cake

Decorating By shannas Updated 6 Feb 2006 , 9:57pm by shannas

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shannas Posted 4 Feb 2006 , 2:42am
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I have a wedding cake to do at the end of March and their colors are line green and pale peach. It is for a couple in their 70's and it is their 2nd marriage each. They want a 3 tier cake and don't care what it looks like as long as it isn't a comtemporary type cake. They want more traditional. I can't think of anything that would look traditional with those colors and they want both colors use. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

Shanna

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auntiecake Posted 4 Feb 2006 , 3:26am
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Maybe you could use the lime green for leaves and the peach for roses or some other flower. Use mostly white w/ a little accent color and that may help tone it down. I'm surprised about the lime green! You'll do great and if that is what they want. Go for it! Good Luck!

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Doug Posted 4 Feb 2006 , 3:44am
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did a little research, cakes from the time bride was in 20's were very (!) ornate...lots of overpiping, string work and swags. and almost w/out exception, each tier was separated on pillars with big gap between tiers
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so, I'd start with a light lime green...pastel it out...background for the cake tiers. the do sotis, lace, borders, swags etc. in white. these could be overpiped w/ peach.

next add flowers in the peach color with white leaves

(i once did a cake, sorry no photo, where i took the concept of the petunia shaped flower and did them in a peach that tended toward beige)

Does she have a particular flower she wants? an arrangement of them could be placed between the two tiers and whatever topper on top.
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auntiecake Posted 5 Feb 2006 , 1:06am
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Great idea to pastel the lime if they will be OK with that! Yes cakes then were very ornate stringwork,scallops,molded sugar bells, ruffles, etc.

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antonia74 Posted 5 Feb 2006 , 3:30am
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You can do little peach gumpaste flowers on the top tier and use the green as a ribbon around each tier.

Here's my version of those colours, but this is a mini cake....
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auntiecake Posted 5 Feb 2006 , 6:16am
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Ribbon is a good idea too, but not popular for the era of the couples wedding.
They were very ornate as we mentioned earlier. Were their colors lime green and peach or are they just using those colors. A lot of couples in that era didn't have theme colors like the weddings do now.

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shannas Posted 6 Feb 2006 , 9:57pm
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Thank you all for your suggestions. I told them what I could do and that for what they wanted (3 tier plus sheet cake) it would be $200. I thought that this was an unbelievable price and not expensive at all. But they decided they did not want to spend that much and went to.....Wal-mart. So that is a load off my mind. I think they wanted to much personally. The bride wanted to use the bettercream icing. The non-dairy whipped stuff BUT she wanted a TON of string work and flowers and stuff like that. Plus she only wanted to use lime green (bright) and pale peach with a little while. So there would have been do dulling it down and using white and the other's as accent colors. To me it would have been a headache. So I say that is just fine. Let Wal-mart deal with it. icon_lol.gif But thanks again.

And on another note. I am new here. Been surfing the pictures for a week or two. I have been kinda doing cakes for 5 years. Only in the past 2 years have I started doing things besides my kids birthday cakes. I haven't taken any classes and have just taught myself. So I look forward to learning lots of new things.

Shanna

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