60 Fall Wedding Cakes We're Obsessed With

Jose Villa
These fall-themed desserts all embraced the season, whether through their design, their flavor, or both.
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With its cool, crisp air and warm, fiery color scheme, autumn is a lovely time to get married. If you're planning to tie the knot sometime during this popular season, we recommend serving guests an autumnal wedding cake. With an abundance of festive motifs and seasonal flavors, your fall dessert can be both beautiful and tasty.

Are you a chocoholic? Obsessed with all things pumpkin spice? Truly give guests a taste of the season with a celebratory confection. Other popular autumn flavors include caramel, nut, and maple, which are all delicious cake options and are sure to be popular amongst attendees. Add seasonal fruits like apples and pears to the mix to ensure your dessert offers an extra dose of seasonal flavor.

When it comes to design, the possibilities are also plentiful. A safe bet is to go with fall colors like red, yellow, orange, and green. Gold is another great pick, as are metallics in general. Overall, you can't go wrong with deep, warm, or shimmering shades. Use in-season flowers or autumn foliage to spruce up your tiers or use molds or edible paint to recreate them.

For visual inspiration, look no further than this slideshow. We've found a wide range of autumnal desserts that you can model your own confection after. There are tons of options for a rustic wedding, but also many for a formal celebration. Naked cakes, small cakes, colorful cakes—the list goes on as far as what we've included. This incredible Magpies Bakery carrot cake (with berries, acorns, feathers, and more) is just the start.

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Sweet Wedding Cake

Kurt Boomer Photography

This itty-bitty wedding cake with Oak & the Owl flowers was undeniably enchanting.

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Wedding Cake with Asymmetrical Flowers

Lauren Scotti Photography

Blooms were arranged in an asymmetrical design for this wedding's Frost It Cakery dessert.

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Ombré Wedding Cake

Meredith Lord Photography
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Pretty Little Details Co. crafted this red ombré confection. Magdalen Hill provided the flowers.

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Black Wedding Cake

KT Merry

Fall is the perfect time to pull off a moody, black wedding cake. This one, created by Buttercream Bakeshop, is proof.

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Berry Wedding Cake

Carlie Statsky Photography

What makes a naked wedding cake look even more rustic? A smattering of berries, as shown on this The Buttery confection.

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Smooth Wedding Cake

Natalie Bray Photography

A few purple blooms kept this Sweet 101 cake simple yet still seasonal.

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Two-Tiered Wedding Cake

Meghan Mehan

The autumn flowers and colors made this Leah Rosenburg wedding cake definitively seasonal.

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Embellished Wedding Cake

This Modern Romance

Embellished details like these are sure to be standouts. Sweet + Saucy designed this red confection.

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Brushed Wedding Cake

Sposto Photography

This autumnal wedding cake by Fantasy Frostings boasted metallic brushstrokes.

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Gooey Wedding Cake

Betsy Blue

A succulent, flowers, and fruits topped this mouthwatering autumn dessert by Salt & Honey.

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Deep Wedding Cake

Sonia Bourdon

The flavor was just as rich as the colors when it came to this Sweet Couture cake.

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Leafy Wedding Cake

Maria Lamb Photography
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Typical fall foliage (think: maple leaves) are great, but so were the dried-palm accents on this Papa Haydn cake.

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Geometric Wedding Cake

Ashley Burns
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How cool is the modern design of this Sweet Art Bake Shop cake, which sat atop geometric stands? Mulberry & Moss used Grace Rose Farms flowers to decorate it further.

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Coastal Wedding Cake

Dmitri & Sandra
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This petite blue sweet by Cake Fanatics was inspired by the autumn coast of Hawaii.

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Striped Wedding Cake

Sean Cook Weddings
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Warm and metallic hues painted this unique Bethel Bakery cake.

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Evergreen Wedding Cake

Erin Wheat Photography

Tree needles adorned this woodsy drip wedding cake by Meg Bricks.

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Macaron Wedding Cake

Jenna McElroy Photography

Try decorating a chocolate cake with macrons in a complementary (and autumnal) flavor, a la this Simon Lee Bakery dessert.

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Minimalist Wedding Cake

Sarah Carpenter

Make a subtle autumn statement with clean tiers topped with handfuls of berries, which is what Delicately Sweet Confections did here.

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Orange Wedding Cake

Rebecca Theresa Photography

Various shades of orange were layered onto this two-tiered Sugar Bakers Cakes treat.

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Cool Wedding Cakes

Abby Jiu Photography
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While we love warm colors for fall, you can get away with cool ones, too. Take this Buttercream Bakeshop dessert, which was done in shades of blue and gray, for example. The metallic monogram was the perfect finishing touch.

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Gray Wedding Cake

Kate Ann Photography

The Main Ingredient made this dark dessert, which was accented with orange flowers for an autumnal feel.

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Pear Wedding Cake

Katie Grant Photography

Caramel, buttercream, pear slices, and pink flowers—what more could your autumn wedding cake need? Cakes by Ebony baked this masterpiece.

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Rose Wedding Cake

Michael Radford

For this November wedding, yellow and red roses topped the small Exquisite Desserts cake off.

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Ruffled Wedding Cake

Heather Payne Photography

Look closely and you'll see that this textured Megan Joy Cakes confection had gold and blue edging, making it creatively autumnal.

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Wedding Cake with Colorful Flowers

Charla Storey Photography

This dreamy Sugar Bee Sweets Bakery cake had blue, purple, and pink floral accents.

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Bright Wedding Cake

Kelsea Holder

This pretty Paper Cake Events dessert was topped with saturated flowers and gilded leaves.

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Romantic Wedding Cake

Abby Jiu Photography

This simple cake had white icing and was decorated with rosy blooms.

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Flavorful Wedding Cake

Kristin Sweeting

This couple had trouble choosing the taste of their dessert, so they settled on serving multiple fall flavors, including buttercream cake with amaretto frosting, marble cake with peanut-butter frosting, and cinnamon-spiced red velvet with three layers of white-chocolate buttercream.

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White Wedding Cake

Cambria Grace Photography

A friend of the bride baked this delicious dessert using devil's food cake with whipped dark-chocolate ganache plus vanilla sponge cake with creamy lemon filling.

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Wedding Cake with Organic Details

Judith Rae

This naked cake was spruced up with flowers in fall colors. Shai's Cakes created the confection.

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"Love" Wedding Cake

Blush Wedding Photography

Sweet Spot Cupcakes wreathed this cake in greenery and finished it off with a topper spelling "love."

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Stationery-Inspired Wedding Cake

Mike Cassimatis

Sarah's Cake Shop included layers of chocolate and raspberry jam-filled cake and carrot cake in this dessert. The confection was designed with the couple's floral stationery in mind.

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White-and-Gold Wedding Cake