PHOTOS: Wedding Cake & Flower Ideas for Every Month of the Fall and Winter Seasons

{SEPTEMBER} Deeper hues of blues, greens and purples beautifully bridge the gap between the warm- and cool- weather seasons. Bouquet of ranunculus, tulips, anemones, Vanda orchids, hellebore, muscari, viburnum berries, clematis and rosettes handmade with galax leaves, around $475, created by Papertini Floral & Event Design, Midtown Village.

Vanilla cream cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant appliqué flowers, $8 per person, created by the Master’s Baker, West Chester. Mesa square steel tray, $265 at Home Grown, Haverford. Martha Stewart porcelain cake server, $25 for the knife-and-server set
at Macy’s, multiple locations.

{OCTOBER} Nature’s autumn palette is perfectly gorgeous. Why change it? Four-tier cake of pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting, Belgian chocolate cake filled with Himalayan salted caramel buttercream, Belgian chocolate cake with caramel macchiato filling, and Tahitian vanilla cake with a chai tea-infused buttercream, all covered in fondant with terra-cotta, gold and copper decor, $8.25 per person, created by Velvet Sky Bakery, Jenkintown. Jan Barboglio metal charger serving plate, $78, and Jan Barboglio champagne flutes, $55, both at Neiman Marcus. Red Assiette dessert plate, $35 at Bloomingdale’s. Bodrum Linen Gold napkin, $14.95 at Scarlett Alley.

Bouquet of ornithogalum, scabiosa, chrysanthemums and leucodendron designed in a textile-and-twine frame, around $275, created by Moda Botanica, Northeast Philly.

{NOVEMBER} Rich, luxe textures and shades of wine, burgundy and eggplant capture the bounty of late fall. Centerpiece of dahlias, peonies, ‘Papa Meilland’ garden roses, spray roses, ranunculus, hellebore and chocolate cosmos, starting around $275, created by Sullivan Owen, Old Kensington. Three mini cakes of alternating mocha chocolate and yellow cake layered with seedless raspberry buttercream and covered in vanilla buttercream and fondant, $7.50 per person, created by Night Kitchen Bakery, Chestnut Hill. Juliska Field of Flowers salad plate, $98 for a set of four, and Corinne champagne flutes, $47 each, both at Manor Home & Gifts. Roost Safari fork, $194.95 for two five-piece place settings at Scarlett Alley. Blackberry napkin, $16 for four at West Elm. Glass cake stands, from left to right: $34.95 at Sur La Table, multiple locations; William Yeoward, $500 at Neiman Marcus; William Yeoward, $180 at the Polished Plate, Haddonfield.

{DECEMBER} Because gold is festive and subtle all at once. Vanilla bean pound cake layered with chocolate truffle ganache filling, iced in Swiss meringue buttercream and covered with ivory fondant and gold-dust stencil, $6.50 per person, created by the Hotel DuPont, Wilmington. Lacquer gold tray, $48 at Home Grown. Lenox Westchester dessert plate, $198, and Reed & Barton Tempo toasting flute, $50 for a set of two, both at Bloomingdale’s. Gold pie serving set, $39 at West Elm.

Centerpiece of green cedar, ornithogalum, ranunculus, ‘White Dove’ roses, peonies, laceflower and gold mini calla lilies, around $300, created by TableArt, Wayne.


{JANUARY} Embrace a bride’s signature color—and that of the season— and go with a clean palette of glistening winter white. Centerpiece of white ‘Vendela’ roses, ‘Duchess de Nemours’ peonies, ‘Ice Cream’ tulips, phalaenopsis orchids, white-tined echeveria and white-painted manzanita branch, around $500, created by Petah Bashano Event & Floral Design, Broomall.

Chocolate cake filled with chocolate- cayenne mousse and mini marshmallows, covered in a fondant cable-knit design and dusted with crystal sugar, $7.50 per person, created by Cake Art Studio, Paoli. Antiquitarian mercury glass cake stand, $38 at BHLDN.com. Linen textured salad plate, $8 at West Elm. Venus clear fork, $220 for a five-piece place setting at Manor Home & Gifts.

{FEBRUARY} What better day than your wedding to run with the calendar’s theme of sweet, whimsical and romantic? Devil’s food cake layered with raspberry meringue buttercream and covered in three shades of pink fondant, topped off with handmade ivory doilies, lace appliqué and a floral cameo, $8.50 per person, created by Whipped Bakeshop, Fishtown. Sweetest Day porcelain cake stand, $98, and glass Parlour cake stand, $58, both at BHLDN.com. Monique Lhuillier Waterford blush champagne coupes, $125 for a set of two at Macy’s. Pink Sferra linen napkin, $15 at Home Grown.
Bouquet of garden and spray roses, tuberose, ranunculus, scabiosa and lisianthus, around $350, created by Beautiful Blooms, Northern Liberties.