Kitschy-fabulous salt & pepper shakers as cake toppers
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on October 15, 2009
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I love multi-purpose wedding stuff. One of our orange coral centerpieces sits on my bookshelf as decor, and every time I look at it I get the warm and fuzzies thinking about our wonderful day. I also wear my wedding flip flops all the time with the same results. So when I saw Tribe member Kim's (aka. "uloveit") wedding cake topper choice, thought it was a great idea! Kim found a pair of adorable salt and pepper shakers to adorn the top of her cake...
Kim's cake topper:
According to her wedding planning update, she's going to accent this cake topper with the Mary-Chapin Carpenter lyrics, "Grow old along with me" on the cake. Romantic overload.
Kim inspired me to look into some other salt and pepper cake toppers (because how nice would it be to have a functional cake topper that you could use all the time?), and found an incredible array of choices. So I'm gonna share with you my favsies...
Bride and groom:
This one's great for a silly take on the traditional cake topper. And it won't freak out the squares.
T-shirt and jeans couple:
What I love about this one is that it could be uni-sex. It actually reminds me of this lesbian cake topper that one of our offbeat brides found.
Biker couple:
We've feature a lot of couples who have made motorcycles a big part of their wedding. This pair would be a really bad-ass addition to a biker's wedding cake.
Love Birds!:
The great thing about these guys is that their so freaking cute I wanna tear my hair out, and they can work with same sex couples perfectly. They also have a butt-load of other cute animals shakers as well — horses, elephants, mice, cats, hippos and "french kissing" snails!
Hawaiian Couple:
I actually own these guys. I totally should have used them as our cake topper for our Maui wedding.
Penguins!:
I think this one would be awesome for offbeat couples who already have a kid or are expecting. Penguins mate for life and just have the ca-yutest babies!!!
Hippie toppers:
Perfect for the bohemian, hippie wedding. Love that one frog throwing up the peace sign. Makes my little heart happy.
Day of Dead lovers?
Till death from sodium over-load do us part?
Dog owners?:
There are so many different types of dogs to choose from. My favorite, as a Boston Terrier owner, is the one pictured above. (Btw, just found my mom's Xmas gift!) They also have bulldogs, poodles, yorkies, boxers, beagles, labs, chow chows, sheep dogs, wiener dogs, pugs in argyle sweaters and so many more.
They even have wedding dogs!:
Okay, I'm gonna stop geeking out now. Check 'em out yourself because they're so many more to see. And if you end up using one of these options, leave your choice in the comments!
About Megan Finley
Megan Finley is the Managing Editor for Offbeat Bride and the Associate Publisher for the Offbeat Empire. When she's not slaving away for the Empire, she's sharing her dork side on her own blog and on Twitter @meganfinley.
Melanie said
Nice. My friends own rabbits and they had rabbit salt and pepper cake toppers.
Darth_MIttens said
I actually bought a mermaid and Fisherman salt and pepper set . I love the idea of using S & P sets as cake toppers!
My set:
http://s2.thisnext.com/media/130×130/537343D2.jpg
offbeat_megan said
I love that one! My friend bought that set when I bought the Hawaiian one. Her husband is a boat captain and she has a thing for mermaids, so it was all too perfect.
Darth_MIttens said
FH loves to fish and me… well I guess I like mermaids too!
Miakoda said
OMG, the mice! On top of one of these….
http://www.weddingdecoratorblog.com/images/258144…
Miss Pug said
I did a post on this recently… pugs is the theme of our wedding!
http://misspug.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-first-vend…
CeeDee said
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!! I have been going around in circles looking for a kitschy topper. As soon as I saw this it was like a light bulb going off. Now I've got too many choices…never a bad thing
heidi said
I got these last year, though they need a little love:
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transact…
We're both lovers of homeless cats.
offbeat_megan said
YOU ARE SO WELCOME!!!
Glad I could help!
Cassandra Bromfield said
Love this too, Cee Dee maybe you can use all the ones you find as favors for each guest. The ones sold at Flee Markets and Thrift shops will not be very expensive and hey it is useful.
@shananaomi said
how funny — i snapped this pic of two kissing cowboy kitschy figurines while my wife and i were on our honeymoon in santa cruz this past week. they were like that in the window already.
http://i35.tinypic.com/jjagxy.jpg
Best Man Speeches said
Great toppers they are so creative the dogs where funny but cute
Tom Sparks said
What a cool cake topper. It's got style!
Catherine said
Oooh this reminds me of the hugging salt and pepper shakers which I find just absolutely adorable!
http://www.jijikiki.co.uk/display.php?c=10&pI…
Annie said
instead of centerpieces we had cake toppers all over our wedding- Check it out!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63294974@N00/3905871…
kat.magdelina said
And if you like the idea but want something more contemporary:
http://www.amazon.com/Hugs-Salt-and-Pepper-Set/dp…
soooo cute!
msleathers said
Anyone seen tiki guy and gal shakers? Our wedding's at Bali Hai restaurant, a kitschy pop-Polynesian themed restaurant from the early 60s. A cute tiki couple would totally kick ass!
Jessica_Iowa said
Dudette, this rocks so hard! FH's grand has a salt and pepper collection. I could barrow one that reminds me of us. That would be great for including family in the reception. I can't wait to swing this idea past him.
Vencanice said
So cute…
Ky Eliza said
If you go to Etsy and search for vintage s&p shakers, you'll likely find some adorable ones. I found vintage squirrel ones and deer ones a few months back but didn't even think of this use, so I didn't get them.
I am maybe kicking myself about that a little, because the squirrels were awesome.
Dixie said
What a fantastic idea! And then you have a usable memento! (Sorry, I'm all about usable wedding gifts.)
offbeat_megan said
Exactly!!! Reusing wedding stuff is economical AND serves as an every day reminder of the amazing day!
Number5 said
we're two ladies getting married and all the same-sex wedding toppers left us wanting. so we're using some super-cute lovebird s&p shakers to top our cake.
and we're also using them as favours 'cause that's how we roll.
http://www.gigaweb.com/files/productsimages/WS/88…
Residentangel said
I actually have the lovebirds set for our wedding next week! They're perfect!
Miranda said
Just looked at these, and I am pretty sure that these cardinal ones are both MALE! How cool, and subtle would that be?
Heather said
We bought some vintage penguin s&p shakers from a shop on Esty for cheap! The boy penguin is even rockin' a top hat! I love this idea!