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Japanese Wedding Cakes

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Black and White Wedding Cake

There’s something elegant and timeless about Japanese style – from the contemporary lines to the delicate cherry blossom!

If you’d like to incorporate about of eastern charm to your wedding cake, you can ask your cake decorator to create a unique wedding cake featuring Japanese styling. Whether you and/or your fiancé are of Japanese heritage yourself, or if you just love the culture, you can serve a stunning cake to your guests that is as graceful and chic as the finest Japanese art, fashion, and décor.


Traditional

Many traditional Japanese brides opt for a water-garden theme to the wedding cake. Tiny bridges, water features, flowers, and figures surround a smaller wedding cake, creating a miniature garden. Cranes, waterfalls, ponds, rocks, and bamboo all add to the whimsical look. Or, the couple might choose to showcase a larger-than life wedding cake, indicating good fortune and a blessed life. Colors such as red, pink, brown, and ivory are often prominent.




















Modern

If your tastes run a little more modern and you just want a bit of Japanese flair, opt for the sleek and sophisticated lines of a square cake. A white cake with a branch and cherry blossom theme is a modern way of showcasing this culture. Or, opt for a chocolate cake with tiny pink blossoms scattered all over it. You can also choose one aspect of Japanese culture that you both adore, or that has special meaning to you, and incorporate it into your cake. What about a plain cake adorned with hundreds of tiny cranes, symbolizing the ancient Japanese custom of having a bride and groom fold one thousand paper cranes as a testament to the time and patience a marriage takes.

Other Japanese symbols you might choose to include on your wedding cake are horoscopes, or special words in Japanese characters, such as your names. How gorgeous and funky would a wedding cake look with various Japanese characters “sprinkled” over it, with meanings that are important to you as a couple – such as love, commitment, forever? Bamboo, sushi, kimonos and fan all offer inspiration to the imaginative bride and groom.

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Japanese Accents

You can bring your cake to life by adding unique and beautiful accents to your wedding cake. A wedding topper of a Japanese couple is the perfect way to finish off your creation. A bird theme is very modern, yet traditional, and can be incorporated throughout your wedding day with just a hint of eastern styling. Bring it all together by featuring lucky bamboo on each table as a centerpiece, or giving it out as a keepsake to your guests!

Remember, less is often more in Japanese styling – do some research online or speak to members of your local community for more tips. You can create the cake of your dreams with as little or as much Japanese style as you want! From the most subtle hint of eastern design to a full-out affair, your wedding will be just a little more elegant when you incorporate some Japanese elements into your wedding cake.

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