Weddingbee

Our custom brushed stainless monogram cake topper was our first wedding purchase. Now whenever we go to the cake store for FI to get candymaking supplies (natch), I make him go over to the Wall of Tulle-and-Plastic Cake Toppers and tell me how wonderful I am for not getting one of them.

The woolly mammoth one would be good for chess players–just swap out your boring old king and queen for those!

I bought a lovely pearlized bisque topper from the 1930s on eBay. For a lot less than on Fancy Flours. Theirs are in excellent condition, but you can get them for much cheaper on eBay, and for really cheap if you don’t mind doing a little paint touch up yourself. Mine is in wonderful condition and I paid about $60 for it–and only that much because I really wanted it but someone was bidding against me. However, it’s not going on the cake, it’s too big and heavy, it will sit on the cake table. We have several other toppers as well. Couldn’t stop buying very different ones!

I ordered this from Wilton. It’s super cheap! I was annoyed that their idea of “ethnic” is Africian American and they only had figures with blue eyes. I am Asian American so I am going to have my brother paint the eyes brown.

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=44C05E56-423B-522D-FDB6555E3A7CD125

I believe the netsuke are decorative pieces being marketed as cake toppers. There aren’t that many small decorative pieces of brides and grooms out there, surprisingly. I looked into it. There are larger pieces, and dolls, but not many small enough for a cake. There are salt and pepper shakers, many of which are comical, and then there are ones that are a young bride and groom on one side, and an elderly couple on the other, or a fat middle aged couple, or a fat guy in a T-shirt and a pregnant woman in curlers. Also “comical,” in a creepy way. Or maybe I didn’t look hard enough.

Here’s another alternative to conventional caketoppers: http://www.claycakes.com/.