As modern weddings continue to bring creative touches into traditional themes, wedding symbols, like the wedding cake, become a venue to display the couple's personalities. Personalized, custom wedding toppers are the perfect, unique addition for couples who do not want a cookie-cutter reception.
Personalized wedding toppers may be humorous, such as the bride lugging a hesitant groom up the side of the cake. Or a toe-tapping bride waiting impatiently for her busy groom to finish a cell phone call. Is your fiancé a sports fanatic, fisherman or golfer? Consider having his wedding cake topper character dressed in his favorite hockey jersey or lugging a set of golf clubs.
Skilled artists can recreate the bridal couple's facial expressions, wedding attire and even make a miniature version of the bride's wedding dress. The following are two of the top artists with online based businesses who will create your personalized wedding toppers based on your ideas, designs and photographs.
Clay Figurines House
Cesar Basanez has found a successful niche with his online business www.clayfigurines.com. The 6.5-inch-tall personalized wedding toppers by Basanez are individually crafted of Polimerclay, which hardens and retains its color and detail when baked. Polimerclay is the same material used to make tiny crafts for dollhouses, so the material works great for personalized details, like T-shirt designs, facial expressions and other accessories.
Customers send in their photographs to ClayFigurines.com and give information about the wedding such as the bouquet flowers, colors, and the pose they want their wedding topper characters to be in. A basic wedding topper couple starts at $159 but additional figures, pets and vehicles may be added for a cost. After ordering, customers should allow at least 30 days for the completed wedding toppers to be produced and shipped. The ClayFigures.com site features a gallery with customers posing next to their mini clay versions so you can judge how well the artisan captures each person.
Source: Clay Figurines House