These photos show how you can easily add a classy tropical touch to a simple white cake with a few loose orchids. A bit of ferns and/or babys breath can also be added to add additional coverage and color. The orchids can be applied to cascade down the cake or just add a few accents to each layer. As little 3 or as many as 25 loose orchids are needed to turn a plain cake into beautiful cake with a Hawaiian flair. Use an additional 30-500 orchids to scatter around the cake table, head table, gift table, guest tables, food table, and dance floor.

If you would like to put loose orchids on the guest table a good rule of thumb is 2 orchids per person per table. Encourage your guests to pick up a loose orchid and wear it behind their ear or in their shirt/jacket button hole!

Loose ti leaves (pronounced tee) are the green leaves used in the two photos below and are also great for adding a tropical touch to cake tables and food plates. Ti leaves believed to bring good luck and ward off evil spirits in the Hawaiian culture.

This photo showed how the bride and groom used a fresh orchid cake topper with ferns and babys breath in the center of the square top cake layer and then accented each corner with a single dendrobium orchid.

The cake above was decorated with 90 loose orchids, babys breath and ferns.

The wedding couple decorated around the cake with loose orchids and loose tuberose blooms as well as ti leaves.

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