Nude Colours for Your Wedding Cake

Looking ahead to Spring/Summer 2010 - 'nude' is set to be the popular fashion colour of choice for this seasons wedding celebrations. Light browns, nudes and beige have been seen on many runways and are a great alternative to stark whites. Use tonal shades of beige and peachy-pink; dress your bridesmaids in nude and add touches in your floral bouquets using ribbons and accessories.

For your wedding cake, instead of ivory or white go for the trendsetting soft nude-beige. There are many shades of ‘nude’ and your cake maker can mix icing in any colour, so provide them with a colour swatch from a bridesmaids dress or ribbon (you can even give them a paint tear card, or an image ripped from a magazine), this will ensure you get the colour you were expecting. There are so many shades of ‘nude’ that you want to ensure you get the right one!  Compliment these colours with a touch of gold for a totally elegant wedding.

Many couture dress designers are using beautiful tiers of ruffles over layered fabric for a very feminine look and the 'Frill' cake design pictured here incorporates this trend. The example is iced in white, but with a little imagination it's easy to visualise it in 'nude' tones, perhaps with a coffee flower decoration, or muted pastels - fabulous!

Article by London Wedding Cake Designer May Clee-Cadman

Images Courtesy of Maisie Fantaisie

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