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20 Best Retro Wedding Cakes

Photography by Stephanie Butt Photography

Retro wedding cakes are one of our favourite wedding trends we’ve seen in the last year. The vintage kitsch style of these wedding cakes has such a classic and timeless feel! They're just so nice to look at, and even nicer to eat! The iced wedding cake can be decorated with cherries for something fun or flowers for something more traditional. Plus, the colour of the icing you choose can have such a different effect on the cake! We’ve got the best 20 retro wedding cakes in bright colours, neutrals and, of course, shades of pink! Have your cake and eat it too in this fabulous wedding cake roundup!

Rock My Wedding presents the best 20 retro wedding cakes with inspiration from real weddings!

Bright Vintage Cakes

Maximalist aesthetic? You've got it right here. With an excess of icing, these vintage wedding cakes are the perfect recipe for those couples that love all things bright and beautiful. For the bold and daring that aren't afraid to splash some colour in their day, these retro cakes are the answer you need! If you are a little nervous about colour going for some colourful icing on your cake is a lot more subtle than going for bright flowers, for example! Take a further look at how this Sefton Park Palm House wedding used colour in their day!

Pink, orange, and baby blue retro wedding cake at wedding with pearl decorations
Magenta pink two tier wedding cake with sparkly palm leaf cake topper with neon sign
Bright and bold vintage wedding cake with light and dark blue icing with purple and pink piping work with mini disco ball decorations
Single tier small wedding cake with maraschino cherries for decoration
Peach and lilac wedding cake with kitsch style piping work decorated with glitter dipped cherries
Heart shaped bright red and orange retro wedding cake with maraschino cherries on top
A table full of mini retro wedding cakes in bright shades of orange, pink and blue decorated with mini disco baubles
Retro style single tier wedding cakes with pink and blue bright icing with heart shaped white retro cake decorated with disco balls

The Best Retro Wedding Cakes

These super kitsch wedding cakes with a white or neutral base are perfect for a luxury and traditional black tie wedding. As we said before, they're not exactly the choice for the minimalist couple, but are a great choice for those couples that are looking to help their day stand out with a cake to remember! If you have a vintage wedding cake design like some of those below, your guests will not be forgetting your cake in a hurry! 

White iced three tier wedding cake with green, pink and red piping with cherry cake topper decoration
Three tier white iced retro wedding cake with maraschino cherries on top
Vintage wedding cake with delicate iced roses for decoration at classic wedding
Castle wedding with luxury heart shaped vintage wedding cake with pastel yellow and white frosting with dove cake topper

Pink Kitsch Wedding Cakes

We also had to dedicate a part of this roundup to just pink retro wedding cakes! A pink wedding theme is one of the most popular colour schemes for weddings anyway. It's the colour of love, super feminine, and goes with plenty of other colours. So using it as the icing colour choice for your kitsch vintage wedding cake is a choice that won't steer you wrong. You can always rely on us for some sage advice and we'd like to consider ourselves your wedding planning BFF!

Heart shaped retro wedding cake with blue and pink icing with the top of the cake reading 'Just Married'
Epic and unique tall kitsch wedding cake with retro designs for 70s inspired wedding theme
Huge three tier pink wedding cake with white, red, and blue piping for classic black tie wedding
Retro theme wedding with retro wedding cakes including mini cupcakes to match the theme
70s inspired wedding with pink retro wedding cake decorated with sequin flowers and maraschino cherries
Single tier heart shaped pale pink wedding cake with white piping and cherries
Ultimate vintage style wedding cake with cherries for wedding in Devon
Pale pink retro wedding cake with flower shaped layer with pink and white frosting

There's just something about these cakes that look so appetising! It must be all that icing!

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Retro wedding cakes are so versatile! The vintage style of the cake makes it perfect for so many types of weddings. Rustic, industrial, classic, retro, contemporary, boho, and luxe, these vintage wedding cakes are so perfect for each of them! If you need some more cake inspiration, we have some of the best wedding cake suppliers just waiting to hear from you. But what about your cake topper? You'll be pleased to know you don't need to travel very far! Here are 66 wedding cake topper ideas!

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