How to Save Money on a Wedding Cake
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There are many ways you might be able to save on a wedding, but one major item to save on would be your wedding cake. They can really become expensive as they become prettier and more extravagant. They are pretty important thought, so you will definitely want to have a nice, memorable wedding cake.
Here are 10 tips to help you save on your wedding cake:
1) If your cake is going to take extra effort to make and more time, it will certainly cost more. 6 tiers of cake will cost more than 2.
2) Instead of ALL cake, make the bottom section (tier) of the cake be a fake. Noone will have any kind of idea. You could use cardboard and frosting as a replacement. It is relatively common, surprisingly.
3) Buy store bought, bakery cakes that you can dress up to be prettier. That is very inexpensive to do and you could add wedding cupcakes and sheet cakes to spice it up.
4) Fondant? I don’t think so. Pass up on the fondant icing to save lots of money and go with the original, cheap, cake frostings. Noone will know.
5)Â Less guests = less cake eaters = less cake needed = less money spent = smile on your face.
6) Take a class, ask some friends, and learn how to make cakes on your own. Who knows, you might really enjoy it.
7)  Anything other than typical circle cakes will cost you extra. If you stick with circle, you can’t lose. Even square wedding cakes cost more.
8) Expect to pay around $1.00 - $6.00 per slice of cake. Crazy huh? They can even go as high as $15 per slice (gold and diamond sprinkles).
9) Decoration is what you pay for with wedding cakes, not the flavors. So, this should tell you to borrow cake decorations and style materials to make it look nice on your own. You could even ask for these cake decorations as gifts from people.
10) Buy a novelty cake and play it up to be fun and based all around your wedding them. This blog post shows all kinds of themed cakes that are fun and inexpensive.
Any other wedding cake ideas?
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September 6th, 2007 at 6:17 am
How about a tier tray full of cupcakes? 1 for each guest. If you don’t have that many guest, you could ice their names on each one.
Or instead of stacking tiers just buy 2 or 3 stands at different heights and buy similar individual cakes… just fill the gaps with flower/ greens.
No sure if thats the cheapest idea.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:26 am
I love those tier trays. They are cute and you’re actually right, they can be inexpensive if you find them on sale at a craft store.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
A great idea is to buy a smaller cake in the style you have dreamed of and have the baker make sheet cakes of the same cake and frosting, you cut your cake and send it to the kitchen then you cut and serve the cake from the kitchen and no one is the wiser.
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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