Wedding Cakes

3 Wedding Cake Trends for 2016

A wedding cake can be inspired by almost anything. Inspiration from the bridal bouquet, a lace pattern of the bride dress or even design of the wedding invitation. For 2016, there are a number of wedding cake trends that are sure to be seen a lot this year.

1. Watercolor Wedding Cakes

Blue Watercolor Wedding Cake - wedding cake trends

Watercolor Wedding Cake - wedding cake trends

The watercolor trend is being seen for quite a while but this year it is really a big trend. The colors in a watercolor wedding cake flow into each other, creating a soft and romantic look.

2. Metallics

Silver Wedding Cake

Sparkly Gold and Ruffled Wedding Cake

Metallics are colors like gold, silver and copper used to ice or frost a wedding cake. Mainly gold is extremely popular. It gives a look that is warm, inviting and chic. Gold is very versatile and can be implemented in many ways.

3. Naked Wedding Cakes

Breaking free of stereotypes, Naked Wedding Cakes are the popular name for what you would call ‘Unfrosted Wedding Cakes’. It started as a trend after Hillary Duff chose one for her wedding. Slowly rising in popularity, it has become a huge trend this year. Taking it further is the combination of Ombre and Naked. Ombre cakes lend themselves very beautifully to this trend.

Hillary Duff Naked Wedding Cake
Hillary Duff’s Naked Wedding Cake on the cover of OK
Ombre Naked Wedding Cake
An Ombre Naked Wedding Cake