Color Story

Intricate white cakes are the perfect complement to a bright palette of blooms. Whatever hues you choose, here’s how to make them pop.

Styling by Caroline Woodward/Ennis
Produced by Donna Garlough

First Blush

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Two-part centerpiece featuring hydrangeas, dahlias, calla lilies, cymbidium orchids, hanging amaranthus, and grasses, about $210, Tangerine Creations.

Bridal bouquet of calla lilies, cymbidium orchids, dahlias, and grasses, about $200; bridesmaid bouquet of cymbidium orchids and calla lilies, about $125; both Tangerine Creations.

Three-tier round cake covered in rolled fondant icing with embossed fondant appliqués, piped scroll design, and edible pearl accents and borders, about $8.50 per slice, Cakes for Occasions.

Feeling Blue 

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Bridesmaid bouquet of antique hydrangeas, anemones, lisianthus, eryngium, and allium, about $95, the Tangled Web.

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Centerpiece featuring antique hydrangeas, anemones, roses, lisianthus, eryngium, allium, smokebush, seeded eucalyptus, and delphiniums, about $200, the Tangled Web.

Three-tier round cake covered in vanilla-meringue buttercream frosting and rolled white chocolate with “painted” butterfly appliqués and scrolling lace design, about $7 per slice, Dessertworks.

Green Day

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Three-tier round cake with individual gum-paste ruffles on white fondant, starts at $10.50 per slice, Jenny’s Wedding Cakes.

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Bridal bouquet of cattleya orchids, lady’s slipper orchids, garden roses, mini hydrangeas, scented geranium leaves, and snow-berries, about $310, Jessica’s Country Flowers.

Scarlet Fever

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Centerpiece featuring dahlias, smokebush, sarracenia, and fiddleheads in a vintage urn, about $160, Mimosa Fresh Floral Design.

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Bridesmaid bouquet of cymbidium orchids with sarracenia and leucadendron, wrapped in silk dupioni, about $100, Mimosa Fresh Floral Design.

Four-tier square cake covered with fondant and stenciled with royal-icing paisley design, starts at $9 per slice, Jenny’s Wedding Cakes.

Sunny Outlook

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Bridesmaid bouquet of Toulouse-Lautrec garden roses, irises, double tulips, and craspedia, bound with silk jacquard and cotton ribbons, about $75, Spruce Floral.

Three-tier round cake covered in rolled fondant and fondant mosaic “tiles” brushed with a pearlescent finish, about $10 per slice, Cakes for Occasions.

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Photograph by Hornick/Rivlin

Chrysanthemum-covered centerpiece featuring Toulouse-Lautrec garden roses and craspedia, about $350, Spruce Floral.