Choosing Your Wedding Cake


When planning your wedding, deciding on what you want your wedding cake to be can be a tough decision.  Should it be large or small?  What shape?  How many tiers?  What flavors of cake?  Do you even want cake or would cheesecake be better?  Do you go with a traditional cake or do you go with something non-traditional to show your personality?
The very first thing you should do when deciding on your cake is to figure out how many guests you’re going to need to feed.  Take your guest list and cut it in half.  That’s the amount of people who will actually show up at your wedding.  And about 2/3 of them will eat the cake.  From there, you can decide if you want a wedding cake with 2 tiers or one with 8.
Now should be when you start looking into your bakeries and checking your costs.  Would it make more sense in your budget to have one little cake for the bride and groom to cut and then get a larger sheet cake to feed everyone else?  And while checking your costs, you should check on the price difference on using fondant versus not using fondant.  Fondant can be pretty but can put a large dent in your budget.  One other big thing you’ll want to look into with your bakery is if there is an additional charge for set up on the big day.  Some places charge to come out and set it up, some places don’t.
When you talk to your bakery, they’re going to want to know how you want to decorate the wedding cake.  Are you going to want to use real flowers or fondant flowers?  What kind of cake topper do you want?  Do you have a serving set or do you need them to provide them?
Deciding on your wedding cake can be a time consuming and frustrating task.  Or it can be a fun and enjoyable task.  It’s all what you make it.  I recommend putting the wedding cake decisions at the top of your list so that you can wrap it up quickly and mark one thing off your list.  It’s remarkable how quickly time passes and how overwhelming those last few months before the wedding can be.  Don’t procrastinate….do your research now and as it comes down to the wire, you’ll only have small decisions to make about your wedding cake!

When planning your wedding, deciding on what you want your wedding cake to be can be a tough decision.  Should it be large or small?  What shape?  How many tiers?  What flavors of cake?  Do you even want cake or would cheesecake be better?  Do you go with a traditional cake or do you go with something non-traditional to show your personality?cake 3

The very first thing you should do when deciding on your cake is to figure out how many guests you’re going to need to feed.  Take your guest list and cut it in half.  That’s the amount of people who will actually show up at your wedding.  And about 2/3 of them will eat the cake.  From there, you can decide if you want a wedding cake with 2 tiers or one with 8.

Now should be when you start looking into your bakeries and checking your costs.  Would it make more sense in your budget to have one little cake for the bride and groom to cut and then get a larger sheet cake to feed everyone else?  And while checking your costs, you should check on the price difference on using fondant versus not using fondant.  Fondant can be pretty but can put a large dent in your budget.  One other big thing you’ll want to look into with your bakery is if there is an additional charge for set up on the big day.  Some places charge to come out and set it up, some places don’t.

When you talk to your bakery, they’re going to want to know how you want to decorate the wedding cake.  Are you going to want to use real flowers or fondant flowers?  What kind of cake topper do you want?  Do you have a serving set or do you need them to provide them?

Deciding on your wedding cake can be a time consuming and frustrating task.  Or it can be a fun and enjoyable task.  It’s all what you make it.  I recommend putting the wedding cake decisions at the top of your list so that you can wrap it up quickly and mark one thing off your list.  It’s remarkable how quickly time passes and how overwhelming those last few months before the wedding can be.  Don’t procrastinate….do your research now and as it comes down to the wire, you’ll only have small decisions to make about your wedding cake!


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