Spring & Summer Wedding Cake Designs

As the seasons shift and warmer days return, spring and summer weddings bloom with color, life, and celebration. From garden ceremonies to mountain elopements and sunny outdoor receptions, these seasons offer endless inspiration for wedding cake design. Spring and summer cakes often reflect the joy and lightness of the season. Think soft pastels, bright florals, airy textures, and fresh, natural elements. These cakes are made to feel effortless and romantic—whether they're towering tiers or petite single-layer beauties.

Whether you envision a delicate, flower-adorned cake or a bold, sunshine-inspired showstopper, spring and summer are the perfect times to embrace color, texture, and whimsy in your wedding cake design.

Soft Color Palettes

Spring is the perfect time to incorporate soft, pastel colors into your wedding cake design. These gentle colors reflect the renewed life of the season, and add playful elegance to the design. Think about utilizing buttery yellows, blush pinks, pale blues, and mint greens to bring your wedding cake to life. These colors can be added to the base frosting color for a more bold look, or can be painted or piped onto a classic white frosting base for a more artistic flair. However you choose to incorporate them, adding whimsical pastel colors to your wedding cake is a perfect nod to the spring season, and a great way to create a unique design that will impress your guests!

Bold & Bright Florals

Allowing your fresh flowers to be the design statement on your wedding cake is perhaps the best way to celebrate the spring and summer seasons! As fresh flowers begin to bloom around you in the spring and summer months, you can get lots of inspiration about what colors and florals you want to incorporate into your wedding. As you design your wedding bouquet and table centerpieces, think about how you can incorporate those same flowers into your wedding cake design. Do you want the flowers to appear to be flowing down the cake in an elegant cascade, or playfully placed in a way that makes them look more wild and untamed? Including fresh flowers on your wedding cake is a great way to add a pop of color to the design, as well as tie it in with the rest of your wedding decor.

Fresh White Wedding Cakes

Clean, white wedding cake designs are ideal for spring and summer weddings, as they feel effortlessly elegant and fresh. Clean and bright, these cakes serve as a timeless canvas for whatever decor you choose to use. White buttercream frosting can be gently textured to add visual interest, or can be kept perfectly smooth with really clean lines. Delicate fresh flowers can be added for a romantic look, or thin fondant layers can be sculpted onto the cake for a more modern, whimsical effect. White wedding cakes look so fresh and clean, and are perfect for garden, mountain, or outdoor celebrations.

Seasonal Fruit Accents

Some of the most wonderful fruit flavors come into season in the spring and summer months, and it seems fitting to highlight these seasonal jewels not only with the cake flavors you choose, but also with the wedding cake design itself! Traditional fresh fruits like berries can be arranged along the top of each cake tier to define the lines of the cake and add a fresh pop of color. Less common fruits like figs and grapes can also be arranged along the sides of the cake to bring a unique, farm-fresh look. We also love using dried fruits as decor, as the vibrant colors of dried apples and citrus fruits lend a beautiful, rustic feel to the cake. Adding seasonal fruit accents to your wedding cake will create a joyful and unexpected design element that will delight your guests and be as delicious as it is stunning!

Bold Buttercream Flowers

One of the best ways to add bold colors and textures to your wedding cake is through the use of buttercream flowers. Summer months bring the perfect landscape to experiment with bright, bold colors in your wedding palette, and this extends to the wedding cake as well. Consider a bright turquoise color for the base frosting of your wedding cake, or have buttercream roses piped onto the cake in lovely terra-cotta and maroon shades. Think of jewel tones and have a meadow of buttercream wildflowers created in golden, violet, and sapphire colors, or keep it classic and have one detailed, bold white flower piped onto the cake as the design focus. There are endless ways to incorporate buttercream flowers into your wedding cake design, and we love how a bold design like this highlights the vibrant life we find in the summer season!

Spring and summer wedding cakes are full of life—just like the seasons themselves. Whether adorned in pastel petals or bursting with vibrant color, your cake can reflect the joy and beauty of your day in the sweetest way possible. Let nature, sunshine, and love guide the design, and you’re sure to have a cake as unforgettable as your celebration.