While beginning the wedding-planning process, I came across a concept that stopped me in my tracks: cake jewelry. As an editor at BeadStyle, I of course love jewelry, and as an amateur cake decorator, I am enamored of cake. So naturally, I had to research this trend.

Cake-jewelry.com offers silver-plated cake-top jewelry studded with Swarovski rhinestones, including blingy monograms, sparkling cake picks (think bobby pins for pastry), distinctly broochlike flowers, sprays of stars and butterflies, wirework spirals, even cake tiaras!

Wedding cake charms are another kind of cake jewelry I had never heard of before. In Victorian tradition, silver charms are tied to lengths of organza ribbon, then inserted into the cake so only the ribbon is visible. Each member of the wedding party pulls out a charm. In some traditions, this is done for good luck, while in others the charm says something about the personality or future of the person who selected it. There is no shortage of vendors that sell wedding cake charms (weddingcakecharms.com, weddingdepot.com, and exclusivelyweddings.com to name a few), but you could easily purchase charms from your local bead store and attach ribbons to them yourself.

Most brides worry about overdressed guests and brides maids showing them up on the big day, but with cake jewelry you might just have another competitor!
 

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