I had a really lovely email and photo today, from a happy customer, it means so much to me when people love their cake toppers….

‘I cant tell you how amazed and surprised Rupert was by the topper – he loves it to pieces and it is now pride of place on our dresser!! All of our guests were delighted by it and said how well you captured us all – we cannot recommend you enough! Not just for the skill and gorgeousness of the topper itself but in your professionalism and efficientness throughout the process, i think you were the easiest thing to organise for the whole wedding, and the topper was the very thing we were most pleased with.

You are an absolute star and i am raving about you to all my friends and clients! Thank you so much for an everlasting perfect memento of our day and our lives at the time, we will cherish it forever.’

Here it is on the wedding cake, it looks lovely, the whole setting looks so beautiful : )

Wedding Cake and Topper

This style of topper is from www.wedding-cake-toppers.co.uk

Just had a really interesting email from www.gayweddingshow.co.uk

‘The number of civil partnerships in the UK has risen, according to provisional figures released by the Office for National Statistics. There were 6,795 such partnerships in 2011, an increase of 6.4% since 2010. The number of civil partnerships formed since the legislation came into force stood at 53,417 by the end of last year.‘

This is great news, at Atop of the tier we have always been big supporters to the right to gay marriage and think it is fantastic that it is becoming more common place.

Congratulations to  www.gayweddingshow.co.uk  for 9 years of the UK’s official gay Wedding Show.

They are proud to have offered the shows and opened the doors across the UK to over 10,000 visitors since its launch in 2004, helping gay couples to arrange their weddings and ceremonies, legal information and Equality Issues and the most important honeymoon.

For a list of up coming events please go to www.gayweddingshow.co.uk/theshow

This is a selection of some of the toppers made for civil partnerships from www.wedding-cake-toppers.co.uk for the more detailed toppers and www.cake-toppers.co.uk for the mini toppers

The Olympics has begun! London 2012. Seeing all the flags of the world at the opening ceremony made me think about all the flags I have made over the years on the wedding cake toppers. Some are flags from the UK, and then at the other end of the scale the Union Jack and the flag of Australia. Because of the small scale they are always tricky to paint, but a lovely touch to represent something personal about you.

Another topper I have made recently was this one which represented the bride and grooms love of traveling all over the world , it was a topper globe with bride and groom, and even a copy of their own luggage. It is a completely ceramic topper so will last forever. I didn’t think I’d ever be making the whole world! I needed a globe to copy getting countries in the right place wasn’t as easy as I had expected, but loved the end result. 

This topper was another way to represent the couples nationality, two Welsh dragons, for a civil partnership, it was great fun to make and a really unique design with the blackboard and football scarf. The red was really striking and was great to see the transformation from clay to dragons.

Even though I can’t ship the toppers overseas anymore, they have and are still traveling further than I ever will. Lots of brides have packed them in suitcases and have taken them all over the world, it’s a strange but good feeling to know that the little people that start out in the workshop are important enough to travel all that way for such a special day as a wedding.

Beautiful icy white wedding theme

Well it’s only the start of April and I’m already thinking about winter! I’m very lucky to be booked up until September already, and it got me thinking about the discussions I’ll be having with brides soon about autumnal colours and snowy bases, maybe with a robin or two! This topper traveled to Canada with the bride and groom for a very snowy wedding, the figures even wore skis.

The good thing is with a winter wedding theme you don’t need to be limited on colours, any colour can be adapted to the theme. It can be a traditional Christmas theme with rich burgundy, green and gold or a warm winter palate of cinnamons and ivory, even with mini trees on the tables and fairy lights twinkling around you. Or a very different look is a magical winter wonderland, glitter, pale or icy blues, white, silver and lots of sparkling lights can give it a lovely shimmering winter effect.

Traditional theme Christmas wedding

There is a long list of winter accessories that can be added to your topper – skis, snowboards, hat’s and gloves, snowy base, snowballs, robins, snowmen whatever matches your theme.

The idea of a winter wedding may sound cold but I love the idea of guests chatting around a big open fire maybe even with a mug of hot chocolate, it makes it a really snug, cozy, friendly environment.

Beach wedding

There is always the option to forget all of that and go to a hot and tropical beach! No snow or rain there!

What ever your winter theme I think it is a lovely magical time of year to get married.

For more information about the toppers go to www.wedding-cake-toppers.co.uk for the large ones and www.cake-toppers.co.uk for the mini ones

Snowboard wedding cake topper

If you are a facebook fan we are also there, and can be found at www.facebook.com/caketops the page is regularly updated with bits and bobs about cake toppers or other peoples work that I think is definitely worth sharing. I was really pleased to find out that cake toppers was listed in the top 100 wedding suppliers list, so just wanted to say a big thank you for the mention.

Facebook is a great place to find wedding ideas and inspiration and once you start clicking through suppliers there is an endless supply of photos and information.

As well as the Atop of the tier cake toppers, I also make mini toppers, which can be found over at www.cake-toppers.co.uk a smaller more simple version of these, but made in a similar style.

“We provide personalised cake toppers for Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Christenings, Birthdays or any other occasion. Our cake toppers are hand crafted from kiln fired earthenware clay, and are personalised to match your clothes, hair, skin colour and other features unique to you.

These cake toppers are designed to feature adult people, but for a small additional charge can also include additions such as lustre hearts, babies and children. Your cake topper can also be engraved with names and / or dates.”

The topper pictured was made for a Christening. The couple had already had an Atop of the tier topper made for their wedding a few years ago, and wanted to add to the collection of special occasion toppers.  A lovely way to remember a special day.

For more information about the toppers pop over to www.cake-toppers.co.uk for lots of photos of toppers, and toppers on cakes.