Bridal showers are taking place all the time, but typically only once in the life of a given bride. This makes them a great and important opportunity to get together with friends and family, relax, have fun, enjoy each other and forget all of life’s routine “worries” for an afternoon.

Fortunately, even though they occur only once in the bride’s life, the bridal showers you can attend and organize are limitless, depending only on the number of relatives and friends you have that are single and open to the possibility of marriage. Bridal showers are full of activities in addition to great dishes and crowning this rare occasion is the bridal shower cake. This is usually the highlight of the day and a centerpiece for the occasion.

In its role of symbolizing best wishes to the engaged couple, a bridal shower cake should be lively and creative in design while matching the theme colors of the bridal shower. You basically have two good options when it comes to planning your “perfect” bridal shower cake.