Weddingbee Blog

…Is anyone else trying to resist using this excuse to spend money on stuff they don’t need?

For me, the obsession of late has been cake toppers. If you recall, a friend of my FMIL’s is making our cake and we don’t even really know what it’s going to look like. We don’t really care, either, as long as it tastes good. It isn’t going to be a big cake either: probably just one tier, to feed 9 people. (The picnic will have cake or dessert also, but that’s still TBD.)

I decided several weeks ago that a cake topper wasn’t necessary. Frosting decorations will be fine, thank-you-very-much. They taste a lot better than porcelain or plastic, anyway.

But what did I spend a good portion of yesterday evening doing? Looking at cake toppers on the internet.

I’m not a fan of monograms: they look beautiful and are perfect for others, but just not for me. Maybe I’m just slow, but I always had trouble figuring out whose monogram it was or what it stood for. A big “H” for “Hislast” would completely ignore the bride’s family’s involvement, in my opinion. And those three-letter designs with the couple’s first initials flanking the big “H”? I tend to focus on those when I see ’em, trying to determine what kind of inappropriate phrases could be made from the acronym. (Yes, I’m a 13-year-old boy at heart.)

And as far as Ann Wood Birds or other sculpted/hand-made options?  They’re just not my style, cute though they are.

I just love the classic porcelain human bride-and-groom. (But I’m not on board with the custom “your face on this topper” options.)

(All of the toppers below are courtesy of weddingcollectibles.com.)

A topper like this would be fitting: we’re sort of car people. If it was a different kind of car (maybe a Honda like mine, or a VW bug like I had in high school & college?!) I’d be sold.

Now how about either of these next two? Mr. Mary Jane and I like ’em a lot: they play tribute to our passionate and somewhat-whirlwindy romance. We don’t need our mothers to gasp though, or our fathers to blush. So we’ll skip these.

I do think it’s a little odd that the bride is smacking herself in the head with the bouquet in this one…

Then there’s this next one. Looks like a “normal” topper from the front, but from the back, what’s this? She’s pinching his butt! Love it. LOVE IT.

I saw tons of toppers depicting brides dragging grooms to the altar, but neither Mr. MJ or I think that’s very tasteful. Perhaps it’s a running joke for some couples, but we don’t want to give off a vibe that one of us is forcing the other in to making vows.

Gotta admit though, this one, which lets everyone know “who wears the pants”, is pretty cute.

And finally, some that are “decent”.

I really love the fact that this couple is wearing blue jeans. There were several poses and skin colors/hair colors of these. Though I won’t be wearing jeans on our wedding day, our wedding and picnic will be pretty casual. If it wasn’t for the sandy base on the topper, I’d really be loving this one (even though it’s a little weird to me that the couple doesn’t have faces).

But this one takes the cake. Er, goes on the cake. It was kind of hard to find any toppers with a short-dress bride, but the tea length dress on this figurine does the trick. It’s such a romantic little pose, too. This is the one I would get. If I were getting a topper.

Which I was not going to. But now, I am. I wrote this post last night, and then FMIL and FFIL came to visit! I’ve got new developments on the cake front, up next!

What kind of topper will you have? And, does anyone have any other good short-dress bride topper suggestions for me? Bonus points if you can find one featuring a photographer bride and groom. I’d like to keep the cost under $30 if possible, and I need to order it ASAP (as in, tomorrow).