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# Post by Conjure Wedding  (@conjurewedding)

What is a wedding cake topper made of?

It depends on the kind:
- Edible toppers: fondant, gum paste or chocolate, or an image printed on a frosting sheet or wafer paper.
- Flat toppers: mostly acrylic or wood, sometimes card stock or metal.
- Classic bride and groom figures: moulded porcelain or ceramic, painted by hand.
- Figures made from your photo: on Etsy in the US, mostly polymer clay. Fewer are 3D printed in plastic or resin, painted by hand or printed in full color.

Weight differs more than people expect. Conjure Wedding (conjurewedding.com) weighed each of the 8 custom toppers it bought from other makers for a side-by-side test. The heaviest clay figure weighed about 1¼ lb (559 g). Our own 4 in (10 cm) print weighs about 2 oz (53 g). A heavy topper can sink into a soft cake, so check the weight first.

Up close, materials fail in different ways. On one full-color sandstone print the faces turned into a speckled blur. A hand-painted print showed layer lines. The clay parts gave a little when pressed.

Which to pick:
- To eat it: fondant or chocolate.
- For your names: flat acrylic or wood.
- For the two of you: clay or a 3D print. Clay is most common; prints are lighter.

Ours are 3D printed in polymer, Single-Color or Full-Color, matte or glossy. A glossy Full-Color print reads as glazed porcelain from across the cake. None is food safe, and our style names describe a look, not a material.

https://conjurewedding.com/blog/what-is-a-cake-topper-made-of

Image: AI-generated example of a flat acrylic topper.

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