How To Make Sure You Choose The Right Wedding Cake

The job of choosing the right wedding cake style is the responsibility of both the future bride and groom. Here are some helpful tips for choosing the right wedding cake. The style of cake you’ll choose will largely depend on the wedding theme and the size of the wedding. You’ll want to be sure your cake is large enough for all attending guests to receive a piece. If you’re having a super large wedding you can always have two cakes. In fact, a new trend is for there to be a bride cake and a grooms cake.

The wedding cake is usually cut into small slices, packaged and tied with a ribbon for your guests to take home. You can also serve your cake for dessert. A cake large enough to serve all your guests may cost more but by the same token you eliminate the cost of dessert from your catering budget.

Choose a cake that you both enjoy. The size of the cake is directly related to the size of your wedding and your budget.

If your budget for your wedding is low or you just do not wish to pay very much for your cake, check around with friends and family – there may be someone who has the expertise to do your wedding cake for a fraction of the cost. Friends, family, magazines, your local bakery, and the internet are all great places to get ideas about the types of cakes available. Or go crazy and get the cake you’ve always dreamed of having.

Types of Wedding Cakes

There are many types of wedding cakes you can choose for your wedding depending on your budget and size of your wedding. Here are just a choices

Small or large round cake

Small or large sheet cake

Single level wedding cake

Themed wedding cake – for example for a beach wedding you might tie seashells into your cake, or have a sandy textured icing.

Fresh flowers on your wedding cake

Icing flowers on your wedding cake

Silk flowers on your wedding cake

Match your cake with the colors of your wedding theme – the colors of the flowers or the color of your bridesmaid dresses are popular choices

The traditional wedding cake is fruit cake with white icing
More not so traditional choices are chocolate or orange cake, sponge cake or carrot cake.
Order your wedding cake 6 months to a year in advance.
The month you are getting married in is important because the type of cake you choose may not work well with the season. For example, mouse in wedding cakes does not work well during the hot month of August. Winter wedding cakes have fewer restrictions.

Questions to ask your Bakery and or Baker

Are samples available to try before you buy? Just because a cake looks good doesn’t mean it will taste good, or not be as hard as a rock.
When is the last day I can make changes? By finding out when the last day you can make changes is, you will most likely be getting the answer as to when they will be starting your cake.
Do you deliver? Cakes do not ship well, so unless you’ve made arrangements for someone to pick your cake up and bring it to the reception, it is best if the bakery can deliver it.
How do you ship your wedding cakes? 80% of wedding cake damage occurs during shipping. Shipping is also your friend picking the cake up in their car. The cake needs to be packed properly to ensure it arrives at the reception intact.
Should something go wrong what is your back up plan? Many will say that they either have no plans or that nothing will go wrong. Not a good enough answer. When it’s the day before your wedding and something goes wrong it’s too late to come up with a backup plan.
How much would it be for regular cakes the same size as the wedding cake? This will tell you if you are being gouged.

As with all elements of your wedding planning and preparation are important. Decide the type of cake, get pricing, and order early. Then you can place another nice big fat checkmark on your "to do list".

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