Weddingbee Blog

Before I even thought about a dream wedding cake, I knew one thing.

There just had to be a vintage wedding cake topper on top.

I envy those brides who use their grandmothers’ cake toppers. You can just imagine your grandma many, many years earlier in your very shoes: a fresh new bride with her one honey on her super-special day—your parents and you just a twinkle in her eye.

Well, I didn’t necessarily have the luxury of using Grandmom Sweet Cream’s cake topper…I don’t even think that she had one in her 1940s wedding…or maybe she did. My super-sweet seasoned grandmom (I have forever promised that I would never tell anyone her age) can’t seem to remember. But she did let me know if she does have one it’s mine!

But I do have access to adopting someone else’s grandmom’s topper…maybe not someone I know…just someone…out there. You may or may not remember that I’m a fool for “antiques.”

Just look at the batch of exquisite, charming bride & groom figures that could grace the top of one of the most special sweets that may ever hit your spot.

Image via Wedding Cake Pictures

Image via Ian Johnson Photo

Topper by Ashley Carter Bridal & Wedding Follies / Image via Kenzie Kate

I love that they include bits of antique paper and passementerie, along with pieces of sheet music and feathery doves.

Image via Flickr user Cassidy Raehay

Image via Orange & Blossom

So while out on an antique trip where I was scouring flea markets and antique stores hunting like a hawk for good deals and all things retro, I stumbled across this:

To tell you the whole truth, we weren’t even engaged yet!! (I know!)

I wasn’t even creating inspiration boards or stalking bridal blogs, oohing and ahhhing over the complete insanity that is out there with all you creative, thoughtful brides in the blogosphere. I was just a “waiting bee” before I even knew that the term existed, and here I was paying five dollars at a flea market for this little lovely. But it just caught my eye, and I knew that we were meant to be. Mind you…we knew that we’d eventually get married…we just didn’t know when.

I cannot wait for it to grace the top of our super-special confection!! I know that there is fluffing still to be done on the vintage netting after taking it out and bleaching it…and some spiffing up here and there…but I think that it’s perfection! If only cake toppers could talk—I wonder the story it would tell!!

So it sat—well hidden—in the top of my closet, and I never mentioned a word about it to anyone. Until now…to you—the whole hive!! (I hope Mr. Sweets isn’t reading this!)

Tell me—did you get something wedding related (even though it can be brutally embarrassing) when you were “waiting” for the ring?

Are you a vintage-cake-topper bride, too!?