The traditional wedding cake called for a tiered, white cake with white icing. Today, just about anything goes! Wedding cakes come in all different shapes, styles, flavours, colours and decorations. Your wedding cake should be individually designed to your match own personal style and taste, as well as the wedding decor and colour scheme. So, let's start with the basics…

- Shapes & Sizes - The traditional shape of the wedding cake is either round or squares. But, don't let your magination stop there. Many shapes are now available to enhance and give a unique look to your cake.

Many bakers offer oval, hexagon and heart shapes - just to name a few. Although round is still the most popular.

Square shaped cakes can be decorated in the style of gift boxes in beautiful designs with cascading ribbons. A creative baker can create a magnificent castle or a lighthouse, for a "seaside" wedding.

Keep in mind that a square or round cake can be cut and served more quickly, easily and will likely serve more guests.

- Fancy Flavours - Having trouble choosing a flavour for your cake?

Choose a multi-flavoured cake. They come in so many yummy varieties from vanilla to rich chocolate mud, lush white mud, carrot, banana, caramel for those who dare to be different. Traditional Fruit is still a favourite.

Icing on the Cake - Most cakes are covered in a soft white or ivory icing but sometimes pastel pink or peach can be used to match your wedding colours. Dark chocolate icing rolled fondant. As the name implies, rolled fondant is icing that is rolled over the layers of the cake for a completely smooth and very elegant look.

- Dazzling Decorations - Find a decorator that can make flowers that will match your wedding bouquet. Roses, Oriental lily, Gerber, tulips, daffodils, lissiantha, orchids. Modern Saturn ribbons to coordinate with the wedding colour scheme.

Some Decorators are even painting designs on the cakes for a truly exquisite look. Cakes can be decorated to match the bride's china pattern using this "painted on" technique. Simply breathtaking!

Here, your choices are endless…Some brides like to take a particular element of the wedding decor and design the cake around that theme.

Decorators can decorate cakes with the look of embroidery, lace, appliqué or elegant drapes or swags. For instance, many brides will use the lace or detailing from their wedding gown as a design for their wedding cake. Bring in a picture of your gown and talk to your baker to incorporate the lace or pearl beading detail into the cake.

Remembering the more intricate the cake the more expensive the cake will be.