The wedding cake is the highlight of the reception - it speaks a lot about the couple’s taste, preferences, styles, and personalities. So, even though it’s just a detail, you should definitely spend a bit of time to decide on that.

Cake toppers are small details in a wedding, but they can make a huge impact on the overall ambiance of the wedding.

So, adding a creative and unique wedding cake topper can make your wedding more memorable, which is obviously something everyone hopes for on their wedding day!

So, I’m sharing a roundup of unique wedding cake ideas that you can use as inspiration to make your wedding truly your own.

These custom wedding cake toppers can be the perfect opportunity to make your wedding as special as you always hoped it would be! No matter what you choose, the important thing is that you like it and you’re happy with it!

Unique Wedding Cake Topper Ideas

So, here are some cake toppers that serve as the perfect wedding decor, and as finishing touches to your already perfect wedding day.

I tried to not only make clear categories, but also to come up with some unique ones, and give you examples, so you two can brainstorm together and figure out which cake topper you want for your wedding, and which cake topper would make the most sense for you as a couple.

The great thig about unique wedding cake toppers is that they can be made to fit any wedding theme you could think of - barn weddings, rustic weddings, sea weddings, and so on.

Lettering

Lettering is a very popular cake topper. It’s not unique itself, but you can definitely make it unique if you want! Those can be acrylic cake toppers, or different material that better suits the theme - even laser-cut letters for a fancy custom font. They’re perfect for personalized wedding cake toppers.

They can also be different colors - some most popular ones are black, white, silver and gold. However, rose gold is starting to get popular as well.

You should probably go with a color that fits your wedding theme the best possible way, and ties the whole thing together!

Some of the more popular words people put as cake toppers would be:

• The ______ (add the last name in plural, for example “The Smiths”)

• Bride’s and grooms’ first names (often with a heat between them, or on top of them, or somewhere)

• Wifey & Hubby

• Mr & Mrs

• Mrs & Mrs ____ (last name)

• Love

• We do

• Best day ever

• All you need is love

While those might not be the most unique, they might fit your style the best, or even have a special meaning for you two!

Some a bit more unique wedding cake toppers that are words would be (not fully, but more unique than the first category):

• Lobsters (for Friends fans)

• Cheers to forever

• To the moon and back

• Finally

• The adventure begins

And so on.

Some completely unique ones would be something completely personal to you guys - a private joke you two have, some special nicknames - anything close and personal to you that would be special for you.

An interesting idea you could also do is to write the word (or words) you want in your own handwriting, and turn that into a cake topper! If you have nice handwriting, it will look great! And if you don’t - it will be funny!

Bride and Groom Figurines

A figurine cake topper can be super special. 

One of the most obvious and basic ones (but still gorgeous), is a figurine of the couple - brides are usually shown in a wedding dress, and the groom figurines in a suit. They’re perfect for rustic wedding cakes, modern wedding cakes, and everything in-between.

However, if you want a more unique cake topper that has figurines in it, you can tailor it to your partner and yourself.

Just because a bride and groom figurine is used very often, doesn’t mean you can’t make it your own, by changing the way the little bride and groom look!

Here are some ideas on how to personalize the bride/groom figurines:

• You can be dressed as characters from a TV show or a movie you both adore (Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord Of The Ring, Friends, etc.).

• You can be dressed according to the season (bikinis for a summer wedding or specifically a beach wedding with tropical elements, jackets for winter with snowflakes, etc.) if you want to fit the theme. Even if you don’t have a themed wedding, if you both really adore one season, or met during summer, for example, it could work.

• You can have a specific theme that is special to you guys (couples who like to travel can have suitcases with them, plane tickets, and anything similar, couples who like hiking can have hiking sticks and backpacks, etc.), choose anything that has a deeper meaning for you guys, that would make the cake topper very special for you.

• You can be placed in a meaningful position (if you guys are huggers, you can be hugging, if you love kissing each other on the cheek, you can be placed that way, or on the lips, or anything similar to that). 

• You can be shown as animals - if you guys love a specific animal or a specific animal has a meaning for you guys, you can have two figurines with that animal, dressed as you guys, so it represents you two. Or, if you have specific pet names for each other that involve an animal, you can be shown as those animals. The animals can even be hugging/kissing.

• If you have a shared hobby, you can be positioned to do that hobby.

Unique Figurines

You can have figurines as wedding cake toppers without them representing brides and grooms! Having a custom piece of decor on your wedding cake will make it even more special! You can even get them hand painted.

You can have any objects/things on there that represent something meaningful to you and your partner (these are especially great for themed weddings). It can be:

• a globe,

• a suitcase,

• a book,

• a movie ticket,

• a map,

• Legos (if you both liked playing),

• Something food related

• Words + photos aka figures, you should mix and match,

literally anything that represents you and your love and your relationship. 

Having your cake topper be something that is that unique and personalized will make it even more special for you two love birds! It will make you so proud when they bring it out and everyone starts complimenting it and saying how it makes perfect sense for you two, when you look at your wedding photos later and see the creation you designed yourself, when you’re about to cut your wedding cake and you see your beautiful idea. Your big day will be even better.

Funny Cake Toppers

If you and your partner are funny, enjoy a good laugh, and are known for your fun side, you can create a funny cake topper.

It can be an internal joke (well, maybe not completely internal, so your guests can be in on it as well), or something very obvious.

Even though a wedding is a formal occasion, that doesn’t mean there’s no place for humor. Depending on you and your partner’s characters, it can be completely relaxed.

Some of the funny cake toppers I’ve seen were:

• A giraffe and a shorter animal as figurines - when there’s a big height difference

• The couple sitting as if they were drunk

• One person dragging the other person away from a hobby (shopping, golf, video games, etc.)

• A popular word (like ‘love’), but written in a very bad ‘handwriting’ when both of you are doctors,

etc.

Silhouette Cake Toppers

You can have a silhouette as your wedding cake topper. It’s elegant, gorgeous, and can still be SUPER special and unique.

Silhouettes can be laser cut if you have special needs and wishes. While a bride and groom silhouette is very popular, there are some unique ones.

This can be a great option if you want something that looks elegant, but still has a special meaning. Silhouette cake toppers always look elegant, so they fit a fancy theme very well (but they work for any type of wedding).

Here are some ideas for silhouette cake toppers:

• Regular silhouettes as people

• Silhouette of the couple kissing or hugging

• One person dragging the other person away from a hobby - shopping, golf, video games, etc. (as mentioned above)

• Silhouette of animals

• Silhouette of bike rides

• Silhouettes of a meaningful moment or anything that reminds you of it

More Generic Cake Toppers

While there are tons of unique and fantastic cake topper ideas, I know some people simply don’t want that - they just want a simple thing, which is what they should get then. Cake decorations can sometimes be just that - they don’t always need a special meaning.

Here are some examples of more generic ones:

• Ampersand 

• Flamingos that are forming a heart (it’s in this category only if it doesn’t have a personal meaning)

• Any other animal that doesn’t have any specific meaning, but is there just because it looks nice

• Stars - this one is pretty self-explanatory

• Hearts

• Butterflies (again, they’re generic if they don’t have a deeper meaning)

• Flowers 

• Rustic flowers (for a rustic wedding cake topper) - flowers are always great for rustic cake toppers, if you’re having a rustic wedding

Having a unique and personalized wedding cake topper is great if that’s what you want. However, not all couples pay attention to that, nor do they want anything custom for their cake decoration. So, if that’s the case with you, these generic ideas will come in handy.

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