Wedding cakes have traditional been two or three tiered cakes that are topped with some sort of representation of the bride and groom on top. Well, times have changed and recently there has been a push for more nontraditional types of cakes that are featured in weddings. A big contributor to the nontraditional wedding cake idea is cable television shows such as Aces of Cakes.

This type of show features all types of cakes that years ago people wouldn't dare try to make. Some of the feature cakes have included a Scrabble cake, a gumball machine cake and even a cake shaped like a slot machine. With these types of shows becoming more and more popular, people are starting to feature these types of nontraditional wedding cakes in weddings. Here is an nontraditional wedding cake idea or two that make spark your interest.

Poker Themed Wedding

Poker is another up and coming fad that exploded on the scene a few years ago. If your a professional poker player you may be interested in having a poker themed wedding. Try having your cake designer, incorporate playing cards in the wedding cake. Playing cards can be drawn on the cake in icing or if playing cards are too difficult to draw than have the four suits drawn on in icing. The top of the cake could include a huge poker chip. This poker chip could be edible as well. In the middle of the poker chip would include some sort of representation of the bride and the groom. And to top it all off, you can have cookies shaped as poker chips on each table which feature the first letter of your last name.

Golf Themed Wedding

Golf is one of the national past times and if you are an avid golfer you may want to incorporate the game you love into your wedding. Here is a wedding cake idea for you. Try to have your cake designer include edible three dimensional golf balls around the circumference of your cake. If that is too difficult try having some sort of representation of golf tees or golf flags. For a cake topper you can have a representation of the bride and the groom putting a ball into a hole. To top this one off, you can have at each of your guest seats you can have some sort of candy shaped like golf balls.

Wedding cake designer can do some really cool things with wedding cakes these days. There is almost no theme that is off limits. If you would like to incorporate one of your hobbies or one of your passions into your wedding, do a little research on local wedding cake designers and you may be surprised to find what many of them can do.