Are you planning a wedding shower or your Big Day during the holiday season? A Christmas or other holiday-themed wedding can be a beautiful event with the right types of décor and accessories.

The festive season means you can decorate for your wedding using Christmas colors and designs, inspiration accents and glittering décor. When it comes to designing and decorating the wedding cake, you have several color combinations and decorations to choose from. Here are some of the best color and design options for your holiday wedding cake.

Holiday Wedding Cake Themes

There are dozens of different wedding cake themes you can choose from when it comes to the holiday wedding. Whether you’re looking for a traditional, elegant setting or a whimsical and fun design, consider some of these holiday wedding cake themes for your Big Day:

• Gingerbread houses
• Stacked presents
• Winter Wonderland
• Christmas globe
• Imitation Christmas tree
• Snowflakes
• Icicles
• White and red poinsettias
• Holly and pine cones
• Reindeer
• Polar bears
• Star shaped tiers
• Sheet cakes cut out like stockings
• Christmas cupcakes
• Cakes decorated with holiday cookies from around the world
• Snowmen
• Cakes covered with edible ornaments
• Cakes covered in Christmas candy

Gift-shaped wedding cakes are among the most popular wedding cake designs and themes for the holiday season, and there are a myriad of possibilities when selecting colors, styles and sizes of each box. Many talented cake designers can create present-shaped cakes in almost any size, and may even be able to create miniature versions of the stack of presents to serve as centerpieces for the dinner tables. Consider ordering both regular-size and miniature gift cakes for your special day in a variety of holiday-themed colors so that these can double as centerpieces and décor for your wedding.

Holiday Wedding Cake Color Combinations

The rich, dark and decadent colors for the wedding cake are a great match for the season, and you can select a cake that’s designed to look like a stack of presents, has whimsical Christmas and holiday designs, or is designed with white and silver decorations as the winter wedding showstopper. Some of the top wedding cake color combinations for the holiday wedding include:

• Gold
• Silver
• Burnt orange
• Deep chocolate brown
• Royal purple
• Plum
• Champagne
• Ivory

Black and white cakes are another popular trend for the holiday season, as these can be decorated with filigree details and look like lace on the cake.

Other Holiday Wedding Cake Ideas

In addition to the traditional tier cake or sheet cake, holiday wedding cakes can be made as stcks of miniature cakes and presented to each guest at the wedding. You might consider creating individual stocking-shaped cakes for each guest, or creating a cascading set of tiers designed to look like overstuffed stockings and filled with cupcakes for each guest.

Seasonal wedding cake toppers are another option for the traditional and elegant cake. Christmas wedding cake toppers that feature a bride and groom next to a Christmas tree, riding on a sleigh or playing in a winter wonderland are just a few ideas for creating a unique centerpiece for your important event.