While modern cakes styles like spatula painted wedding cakes and colour drip cakes are lots of fun, vintage-style wedding cakes will always have a special place in our hearts. Whether it’s lovely lace details and hand-piped bows or vintage prints and dainty sugar flowers with an old-world feel, we adore cakes that take cues from traditional cake decorating methods. If you’re in search of a wedding cake that looks that looks like it’s from a bygone era, then you’re in luck. Here we give beloved confectionary styles the comeback they deserve. From towering tiers with elaborate sugar craft details to single-tier buttercream beauties, we’re sharing 48 vintage-inspired wedding cakes.

48 Vintage-Style Wedding Cakes

1. A fun single-tier Love Shack Fancy inspired wedding cake by Southern Belle’s Cakery adorned with a vintage-style floral wallpaper effect.

2. Pink marbled cake with gold vine sugar leaf design by Winifred Kristé Cake.

3. Chinoiserie hand-painted wedding cake by Nadia & Co.

4. Blush pink wedding cake with traditional hand piping and floral wreath by Bobbette and Belle.

5. Blush sugar flower roses and hand-piped brush embroidery wedding cake by Rosalind Miller.

6. Square and round four-tier vintage-style cake with pink and white roses and fresh foliage.

7. Four-tier vintage-style, Swiss dot wedding cake with cascading fresh flowers.

8. Blush and pink wedding cake with hand-piped lace detailing by Zoe Clark Cakes.

9. Vintage-style scalloped edge with gold stem rose detail by The Flour Garden.

10. Kitschy one-tier Lambeth wedding cake with buttercream swags from Camerino Bakery.

11. Duck egg blue wedding cake with dainty sugar flowers by Cobi & Coco Cakes.

12. Vintage-style appliqué wedding cake by Sweet Celebrations.

13. Single tier buttercream cake covered in delicate buttercream flowers by The Preppy Kitchen.

14. Buttercream vintage-style wedding cake in suitcase by Kayla Adams & Co.

15. Hand-painted floral and sugar flower detail cake by Cupcakes and Counting.

16. Three-tier white cake with lace detailing, sugar roses and silk ribbon by Sweet Passion Cakery.

17. Four-layer wedding cake with buttercream floral details and fresh flowers.

18. Lace appliqué style wedding cake by Maisie Fantaisie.

19. Mid-century modern three-tier cake with sculptural disks by Crummb Cakes.

20. Dainty floral vintage-style wedding cake by Ron Ben-Israel.

21. Real bride Clare Louise’s mother and father created this amorously-hued cake featuring buttercream swags and styled with pearls and cherries.

22. Lambeth method wedding cake by Wendy Kromer Confections for Martha Stewart Weddings.

23. Five-tier pink and cream wedding cake with petal ruffles, sugar flowers and glitter by Gabriella Grace Cakes.

24. Cream vintage-style wedding cake with embroidery details and vanilla sugar flowers by Winifred Kristé Cake.

25. Vintage-inspired wedding cake with crisscross design and pearl detailing by Zoe Clark Cakes.

26. Blue china prints hand-painted wedding cake with teacup topper by Blue Lace Cakes.

27. Wedgewood-style blue and white fondant wedding cake by Sweet Celebrations.

28. Betty’s Imperial Oval Cake in Wedgewood blue.

29. Hand-painted toile-inspired wedding cake by The Butter End Cakery.

30. Donna Hay vintage-style buttercream, tiered wedding cake with fresh flowers.

31. Floral stencil tiered cream cake with delicate satin bows by Poppy Pickering Cakes.

32. Shabby-chic style tiered cake with ruffle detailing by Caroline Goulding.

33. Hand-painted vintage floral cake with stripes by Emily Hankins.

34. A cream, scallop-edged four-tier cake styled with cherries by The Pajama Baker.

35. Mint buttercream and fondant wedding cake with rose detailing by Sweet Celebrations.

36. “Till death do us part” vintage-inspired cream Lambeth heart cake by Synnotts Signature Bakes.

37. A pillar tiered confection with lace detailing and vintage cake topper.

38. Simple buttercream cake with vintage cake topper by Park City Cakes & Confections.

39. A show-stopping six-tier, vintage-style wedding cake by Zoe Clark Cakes.

40. A tiered cream cake with ornate gold sugar leaves and ruffles and sugar pearls by Lil Miss Cakes.

41. Vintage-style Swiss dot and flower lace buttercream icing by Magnolia Bakery

42. A vintage-inspired classic iced cake with fresh ivory florals.

43. Six-tiered cream wedding cake with sugar pearls, lace, and wafer paper flowers by Gabriel Diaz.

44. A vintage beauty by Vanilla Pod Bakery with white chocolate cigarillos.

45. Elegant one-tier cake adorned with sugar pearls and flowers by Bel Bear Bakes.

46. An arch wedding cake (also known as top forward wedding cake!) with an embossed wallpaper effect by Vibella Sweets.

47. Hand-painted vintage-china style singe-serve wedding cakes.

48. Gold sugar pearl and bead four-tier cake by Claire Owen.

Check out our list of the best wedding cake specialists in Ireland to find someone to make the vintage-style wedding cake of your dreams…