Remember how I had all of those really adorable cake toppers picked out? And I was having trouble deciding between them all? Spirit animals and all that?
True to form, I scrapped them all, and we’re doing something different. Two cranes. Cranes will be our wedding spirit animals– God knows we have about eleventy billion of them. Maybe a heart in there too. Cheap, easy, and works with our stuff.
Initially, I thought about having them sit directly on the top of the cake, but feared that the dye from paper would run into the icing. Big messy ew. Scrappity scrap scrap that. I’ve made the executive decisions that they will “float” with the help of some rods stuck up the center. If that’s not romantic, I don’t know what is.
Without further ado and blah-blah, here are some mock-ups. First up is the set of forward-facing cranes. Colleen thinks that they look judgmental, and I see American Gothic. Weird birds.
with a little heart
with a big heart!
colored paper, sans heart
Next up are set-ups with the cranes facing each other. They’re a little more cuddley this way.
crossing sans heart
crossing with a big heart
with a big heart
with a little heart
colored paper, sans heart
I lean towards either of the big heart ones, but I could change my mind 40 times before the wedding, and it wouldn’t make a difference. Oh, the beauty of having a topper in separate parts!
Which ones are your favorites? Is this an awesome cake topper idea, or one destined to be totally boring?
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