Does anyone even care about wedding cakes?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at
2:52 pm
They seem like a drain of money to me. How much did you spend on yours?
Are there cheaper options? I think this is the one aspect of the wedding I care the least about.
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It all depends on your feelings. we spent around $300.00 for our cake and I don’t see it as money that we could have saved. the Wedding Cake is the centerpiece of the reception and there will be a lot of fond memories from the photos taken around the cake.
you always seemed like such a nice person and I know you have been looking forward to this wedding for a while now, I truly hope you have a memorable one. I have included some links that may help you with alternative ideas…I hope this helps.
http://www.wedaholic.com/archives/discover_great_alternatives_to_the_traditional_wedding_cake.php
http://www.weddingvendors.com/planning/articles/wedding-cake-alternatives/
http://wedding-planning.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_pay_less_for_wedding_cakes
http://www.bridalwave.tv/wedding_cake/
I do because I’m having mine as the dessert at our wedding and my auntie has kindly offered to make it for us, we’re havin several different flavours of cupcakes with a small fruit cake on top so that everyone has something they like. I do see where you are coming from though, I wouldn’t spend loads on one ever, if my auntie hadn’t offered I’d just buy a cheap cake and decorate it myself just very simply.
yes cause they taste good
They are usually a big deal in many couples, but they are wayyyy to pricey. If they aren’t important to you, then don’t have one!
The people who care about wedding cakes are the people who sell them to you at insane prices.
By the time you eat cake at a wedding, most people are just looking for food.
Do something different. Build a pyramid of Krispy Kremes. I would think that was awesome at a wedding. People would be talking about it for years and years.
I paid nothing for my cake. My now ex-sister-in-law actually baked it. It was lovely, and tasted wonderful. However, if she hadn’t done it, I still would not have paid a fortune for one. If my brother’s now ex-wife wasn’t able to do it, and my mom’s best friend hadn’t been able to either (my mom’s best friend actually used to do cakes for a living, until she retired; now she only does them for friends and family members), I wouldn’t have paid more than $75 for a cake.
Honestly, no one really cares about the cake. More often than not it is overpriced and doesn’t even taste that good. But, having a sweet treat is always a good idea if your serving a wedding meal!
The last wedding I attended did things much better. They had the reception at a restaurant and it had a sit down dinner. They ended the dinner by serving this AMAZING chocolate mousse type cake and each slice was decorated with fresh strawberries. This saved them a TON of money, because it wasn’t a hugely expensive overpriced "wedding" cake. And it was the best cake I’d ever had at a wedding.
If you want to skip cake completely, you can do a "Dessert Buffet" type of thing. Get a bunch of small finger desserts and just let people eat them. You can do canolis, eclairs, candy, fruit with chocolate dip, whatever you want basically. This also is often cheaper than purchasing a fancy cake. Good luck!
People these days are minimizing the cake and using it just to follow the fun tradition of having the bride and groom feed each other a slice. I see more and more – smaller cakes that are for that purpose along with a dessert table featuring things like chocolate fondue and fruit with little gourmet cookies and bars. No one at your wedding will really care about the cake. The ooh and ahh over it for your sake. Some couples save the cake to celebrate their first anniversary too. It’s kind of nasty to do to unless you have a deep freezer and freeze it really well. It’s definitely cheaper to put on a nice dessert table than to serve a huge fancy cake. Wedding cakes are far from out of style. But, the desire to have one is fading I believe as are other traditions – such as staying married for life. So, congratulations – but do keep that staying married for life part. It’s worth it!
If you have a cake that is delicious then it matters! My mother was remarried about 5 years ago and people still talk about the cake at the reception.
If you are not into cake, then do not get one. You could also do a small cake for cutting and have sheet cake in the back if you wish to stay with tradition. You could do cupcakes, cheese cakes, cookies, a candy bar, whatever you would like, I would suggest dessert though.
My husband was all about the cake, I wanted a cake, but didn’t really care what kind. As it turns out, our venue has a deal with a local baker. If we ordered a certain style cake, it would only cost us $3.50 per slice. We had 136 people at our wedding, so the cake came to $476, which is the cheapest we could find anywhere for a wedding cake. So that’s what we ended up doing. We got a buttercream frosted cake with every other layer coconut cake with chocolate mousse filling and every other layer plain white cake with chocolate mousse filling.
This is what it looked like:
http://s641.photobucket.com/albums/uu138/poptartgmb/?action=view¤t=6180_1174293554137_1131991186_53059.jpg&newest=1
One option is to look into how much a grocery store would charge for a cake, I heard they can be less expensive.
Another option is to get a small round cake for you and your groom to cut and then get sheet cakes for your guests.
I had a friend that got married a few years ago. Her now brother-in-law was actually going to culinary school at the time. He made an assortment of cheesecakes instead of a wedding cake for them! The bride and groom still cut one (their favorite flavor) and fed each other and then the venue cut and put cakes out on a dessert table so that people could choose their flavor of cheesecake.
You can always make a bunch of smaller desserts like cheesecake or regular cake and use them instead. Some people do cupcakes, but cupcakes from a baker will be even more expensive than a cake!
We made mine. They tasted so much better than the ones made by area bakers. They all use mixes. In my area, most people get their cakes from Wal-Mart! Gross!
Anyway, I could have spent some money, but I only spent about $100 or so on ingredients. They were decorated with fresh flowers from the garden and shaved chocolate and fruit. There were three normal sized cakes. They looked pretty, but more importantly, tasted delicious!
I really, truly do not understand the question.
If you do not want a wedding cake, why on earth would you spend even a second thinking about it? Because some relative will be pseudo-scandalized if you don’t have one????
Be YOU!! Do it the way you want to do it, and the heck with what other people think.
I can guarantee this: if you do what you think is best, you will never regret it, but if you allow some other person to dictate what YOU OUGHT to want, you will regret ti for the rest of your life.
I say this because I’ve lived through it, and I’ve known others who have made the very same observation.
If some relative says, "Oh, but you HAVE to have a cake," just say, "Excuse me, but I do not have to do anything. I am doing what I want to do. This is my day. Please do not interfere."
One thing you will find in this sort of event is that if you express your interests, you often will try to explain why you want such-and-such. However, you open yourself to a lot of difficulties if you do that. If you have made up your mind about something, understand the other person’s view and just do not agree with it, from that point on, never ever explain. Because if you try to explain, they will simply give you all sorts of arguments why your reasoning is wrong. Avoid these problems. Do not explain; simply say that this is what you have decided, and if they ask why, simply repeat that this is what you have decided, and then ask a question about something else. If they keep on trying to go back to the issue, you keep on, like a broken record, saying, this is what you have decided, using the same words (you don’t need to try to add variety to your reply; just keep on giving the same feedback, no matter what they say. Eventually they will give up, or, if they do not, you know for sure that this individual needs to be gently moved away from having influence in the event.
Now that might mean giving up the big bucks they are holding out, but in the long run, you will be glad you did. If you let someone roll over your preferences for this day, it will ruin the day for you, you will remember it for the rest of your life, and it will in all likelihood sour the relationship forever.
But bear in mind that sometimes others have a valid concern. Make sure, before you decide, that you have truly heard them out. Then, make the decision and don’t waver.
As the old saying goes, be sure you’re right — then go ahead.
We only spent about $300 total on our groom’s cake and bride’s cake because I had 2 friends that do cakes and decorating. I’m sure there are cheaper options, like cupcakes, donuts, cookies, cheesecake etc. Any of those things you could just recruit some friends to do for you and it wouldn’t cost as much.
I just like cake, so there will def. be one at my wedding! As far as cheaper options, I’ve seen cupcake towers or using a smaller cake (only one to two tiers) and serving a sheet cake. To keep the cost down (I just read this somewhere), stick with white frosting and few details and tiers (the more "stuff" you add, the more it costs). Flavors (other than the typical’s) can be incredibly expensive as well!
Try something new that might be fun and something you can do yourself depending on how many guests you have…cup cakes or individual cakes with one smaller one for the bride and groom. They can be different flavors, etc. That’s what we did for ours. We did cup cakes. That way also peeps can take them home. They are quicker to serve, etc.
Yes, lots still do – and like to have one as a big showy piece. Some say they are yummy too.
However, I didn’t want one on show for our wedding, so we simply didn’t have one. We served a variety of cheesecakes for dessert, along with lots of dainties.