Unusual Wedding Cake Toppers Can Be Quite A Talking Point

Marriage Articles | April 26, 2007

Wedding cake toppers come in a huge variety these days to suit all tastes and all budgets and there can be no better way to get your wedding reception off to the perfect start than by choosing an unusual wedding cake topper that will get your guests talking.

The days of the old-fashioned wedding cake topper with the standing figures of the bride in a long white wedding dress, complete with veil, and the groom in black morning dress are fading fast and today we see a growing range of often quite unusual wedding cake toppers.

Cake toppers tend to fall into two categories - those which we might class as traditional, in the sense that they are serious in nature, and those that we might class as humorous or comical wedding cake toppers.

Traditional toppers will include figures of the bride and groom but, while some will still have them standing in the customary white wedding dress and black tail coat, nowadays these will often show the bride and groom either in the actual clothes being worn for the wedding or in more casual attire. A good example of this might be military wedding cake toppers which can not only show the bride or groom in their correct military uniform, but can even show them with the correct medals and decorations.

Traditional toppers will also include such things as floral wedding cake toppers and a variety of different styles of topper displaying the initials of the bride and groom. There are also toppers that depict scenes from nature, including such things as quite beautifully crafted glass models of dolphins, which can make an ideal focal point at your reception for nature lovers and conservationists.

When it comes to funny wedding cake toppers however the choice today is simply amazing and it is relatively easy now to focus in on some aspect of the bride's or groom's character, or perhaps a favorite hobby or pastime, and find a humorous wedding cake topper that will really attract your guests' attention to the cake and raise at least a smile if not a laugh or two.

For the fisherman, for example, there are toppers of the bride catching and reeling in her groom (or vice versa). It is also possible nowadays to get numerous examples of the bride catching her groom as he tries to escape, or dragging him by the collar to the altar.from:http://kant-trouwjurk.aangevinkt.nl/

Today there are wedding cake toppers to suit just about every taste and budget and the list of the different types available includes, amongst others, African American, Hispanic, gay, lesbian, beach, dove, Cinderella and fire fighter wedding cake toppers.

Did Judy Garland make a point to sing Wizard of Oz songs to her children at bedtime

Judy Garland, 47, Star of Stage and Screen, Is Found Dead in Her London Home

Special to The New York Times

London, June 22--Judy Garland, whose successes on stage and screen were later overshadowed by the pathos of her personal life, was found dead in her home here Korte Avondjurken today.

The cause of death of the 47-year-old singer was not immediately established, and an autopsy was scheduled. [Reuters reported that police sources said a preliminary Sexy Trouwjurken investigation revealed nothing to suggest that Cocktailjurken Miss Garland had taken her own life.]

Miss Garland's personal life often seemed a fruitless search for the happiness promised in "Over the Rainbow," the song she made famous in the movie "The Wizard of Oz."

Her father died when she was 12 years old; the pressures of adolescent stardom sent her to a psychiatrist at the age of 18; she was married five times; she was frequently ill; her singing voice faltered, and she suffered from the effects of drugs she once said were prescribed either to invigorate or tranquilize her.

She came here at the end of last year to play a cabaret in another of the "comeback" performances that dotted her last 15 years.

Three months ago she married Mickey Deans, a discotheque manager. It was Mr. Deans, her fifth husband, who found Miss Garland dead on the bathroom floor in their home in the Belgravia district.