Before you say the game-changing “I do,” there’s so much prep to do for the happiest day of your life. Picking up the most perfect white dress is one. Sending out fancy invitations to guests (and not forgetting anyone) is another. Planning the whole celebration part is third. And when the list seems never-ending, you realize there has to be a perfect wedding cake and you can’t let yet another baking fail happen.

Luckily for all the newlyweds, wedding cake artisans exist and their mad decorating skills are on a whole new level. So, Bored Panda has compiled some of the most elaborate, creative, and unique wedding cake designs that look so good they may as well hang one in a museum after the party’s over.

Get ready to upvote your faves and share some with your friend whose wedding planning has gotten way out of hand. Who knows—you may save some tears and not let cake expectations vs. reality ruin the big day, as it sometimes happens.

#1 The Perfect Wedding Cake For Dog Owners

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#2 This Very Accurate Dog Owners Wedding Cake

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#3 Detail Of The Wedding Cake Made By My Dad As A Surprise For His Grand-Daughters Wedding. 100% Edible

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In order to find out what exactly it takes to create a gallery-worthy wedding cake, Bored Panda reached out to internationally acclaimed cake designer Maggie Austin, who has worked with illustrious clients all over the globe, from President Obama’s White House Christmas celebrations to Hollywood parties.

Maggie said that in order to make a truly unique wedding cake, one needs a unique couple. “What I love most about working with clients is that I create designs that reflect the aesthetic of their individual weddings. From the sugar flowers to the color palette to the texture of the design elements, each cake is an expression of what the couple loves.”

#4 Book-Lovers Wedding Cake

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#5 LEGO Wedding Cake

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#6 ‘Embroidered’ Wedding Cake

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Sometimes, Maggie said, she’s asked to incorporate details that carry special meaning just for the newlyweds. For example, “One bride asked me to include a wild boar in the design as a surprise homage to the groom’s family crest!”

The cake designer said that usually, she begins working on sugar flowers and decorative elements many months in advance, and the cake decoration takes place on Friday night before a Saturday wedding. “I am putting on final touches right up until the moment that I leave the venue. I love that the sugar flowers last forever.”

Moreover, “many couples choose to display their sugar flowers under a cloche as a beautiful memento of their wedding,” Maggie told us.

#7 An Extremely Creative Wedding Cake

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#8 Geode Wedding Cake

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Maggie also said that she prefers “loose, organic floral arrangements and soft, textile-inspired design elements.” These days, she has noticed that couples are more likely to embrace the beauty of visual movement instead of the rigid symmetry typical to more old-fashioned cake designs.

#10 Embroidered Wedding Cake

#11 Beautiful And Subtle Harry Potter Wedding Cake

#12 Amazing Detail On This Wedding Cake

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#13 [homemade] Wedding Cake

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#14 My Wedding Cake: 100% Edible

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#15 Literary/ Book-Themed Wedding Cake

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#16 Wedding Cake

#17 Cable Knit Wedding Cake

#18 Secret Identity Of A Wedding Cake

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#19 The Wedding I’m At Has The Best Cake I’ve Ever Seen

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#20 Self Made Forest Wedding Cake For My Sister

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#21 I’m Getting Married Today, And I Made Our Wedding Cake! Layers Of Pumpkin And Apple Spice Cake, Maple Cream Cheese Frosting, Fresh Fruit And Herbs, Candied Spiced Pecans And Pumpkin Seeds. It’s Only Going To Be Shared With Like Four People But I Wanted To Go All Out. Thanks For Looking!

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#22 This Is A Wedding Cake I Made For Very Special Friends

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#24 Forest Themed Wedding Cake

#25 Otter Wedding Cake I Made Today. Chocolate Blackberry Flavored. With White Chocolate Otters

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#26 What Do Y’all Think About Modern Wedding Cakes? I Made This Beauty For A Modern Wedding At A Warehouse

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#29 This Was The Cake I Created For A Stunning Droomtroue Wedding End Of Last Year… With Smoke Pouring Out Of The Aladin Lamp And Lighting In The Geode Cave

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#30 Glowing In The Dark Wedding Cake

#31 Pillow Wedding Cake

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#32 Beauty And The Beast Themed Wedding Cake

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#33 Disney Wedding Cake

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#35 Queen Elizabeth II’s Wedding Cake, 1947. Dubbed “The 10,000 Mile Wedding Cake” After Its Ingredients Were Flown In From Australia And South Africa, The Cake Measured 9 Ft In Height And Weighed 500 Lbs

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#36 This Lotr (Minas Tirith) Wedding Cake

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#37 Beautiful Wedding Cake

#38 Wedding Cake With Pressed On Flowers

#39 I Made My First Ever Wedding Cake Today And I’m Really Proud And Wanted To Share

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#40 Wedding Cake

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#41 Original Wedding Cake

#42 We Are Super Proud Of Ourselves! It Was A Huge Pleasure Makes The Little Prince Cake

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#45 Half Batman Half Traditional Wedding Cake

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#46 May The 4th Be With You. Awesome Star Wars Cake From Lauren And Mark’s Wedding

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#48 Wedding We Went To Today Had Periodic Table Cupcakes As Their Wedding Cake

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#49 My Wife Made This Wedding Cake

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#50 [homemade] Rainbow Wedding Cake By My Wife

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#51 Cake Themed Harry Potter

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#52 This Cake For A Wedding At Win Cathedral Has A Little Golden Retriever Puppy Peeking Out From One Of The Tiers!

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#53 The Topper Of The Cake That We Made This Weekend

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#54 Star Wars Wedding Cake

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#55 A 1.5-Ton Wedding Cake Made For The Wedding Of A Relative Of The President Of Kazakhstan [1119×1165]

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#57 Awesome Peacock Wedding Cake With Cupcakes By Malizzi Cakes ?

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#58 The Cutest Wedding Cake, A Globe With All The Spots They Have Travelled Together, On Top Of A Suitcase #comeflywithme

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#59 The Wedding I Am At Has A Cheesecake. A Cake Actually Made Of Cheese

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#60 Wedding Cakes

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#63 Got To Make The Fanciest Cake Of My Career For My Friend’s Wedding

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#64 Wedding Cake

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#67 Beach Themed Wedding Cake

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#68 [i Ate] Doctor Who/Vincent Van Gogh Wedding Cake

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#69 Royal Wedding Cake

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#71 Harry Potter Wedding Cake Made For My Friends Big Day

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#72 Staircase Wedding Cake

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#73 Groot Wedding Cake

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#74 Amazing Wedding Cake

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#75 Spot On Cake At The Wedding I Was At Today

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#76 So, We Had A LOTR Themed Cake At Our Wedding Today

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#77 Our Wedding Cake

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#78 Bow Wedding Cake

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#80 Wedding Cake

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#81 What Felix And Marzia’s Wedding Cake Must Have Been Like

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#84 Loved This Wedding Cake I Made

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#85 Friends Wedding Cake. The One Where A Lovely Couple Get Married

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#86 A Very Massive Congratulations To The Brand New Mr & Mrs A Mcgowan Who Finally Managed To Tie The Knot Today

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#87 Wedding Cake

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#89 Both Me And And My Wife Are Gamers. This Was Our Wedding Cake (Our A Actual Destiny Characters On Top)

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#90 Tetris Cake

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#91 This Secret Garden Inspired Wedding Cake. The Cake Featured Their Beautiful Wedding Flowers Of Red Roses, Daisies, Sunflowers And Ivy

Little fairy mushrooms and bumblebees and two adorable handmade sugar rabbits as a topper with airbrushed detailing, a wood effect sugar sign, and a sugar plant pot.

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#92 Today’s Wedding Cake! So In Love With It

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#93 Wedding Cake

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#96 Wedding Cake

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#97 The Fox And The Bear Get Hitched

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#98 Rockin’ Drum Themed Wedding Cake

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#102 This Wedding Cake

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#103 Double-Sided Wedding Cake

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#108 Wife And I Had A Got Cake For Our Wedding. Made The Wall Out Of Red Velvet, Had 2 LEGO Viking Figures For Topping. It Was 10.5 Kg And Fed 120 Peeps

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#109 Wedding Cake

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#111 Minions – Bride And Groom

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#112 Gothic Style Wedding Cake

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#113 An Aussie-American Wedding Cake.

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#114 Super Hero Cake

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