Cake or cupcakes?

This is what we had served ojr guests

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Mmm... Ube! Your idea definitely works! You could always incorporate a snacks bar with your favourite crisps, chips or pretzels in addition to your sweets

Still exploring this idea. It seems like cupcakes from the people I have been talking to are still like 2.00 a cupcake which seems expensive to me. My FH does not want to spend 500.00 on cake and cupcakes. But we definitely want to have a small cake for cutting. Someone else on another post suggested cookies. Another idea is cake pops with a small cake for cutting. Our wedding is 250 people. But I have been told that if you have dessert with your meal and have the cake cutting later to cut your cupcake need in half. so you would only need 125 cupcakes but still lots of money. But if price isn't a factor go for it. Definitely do your research.

We are doing a traditional wedding cake and I am super excited about it! Definitely reflects our style and the style of our wedding! It is also a great "decor" stand out piece! (Depending on what you do- we are having a gold sparkly tier so it's very flashy lol)

View quoted message I'm marrying a Filipino and I love ube flavoured items. The challenge we have is that he loves sweets and I'm not a big dessert fan. But we're going with a small cake and cupcakes for our wedding.

We did a one tier cake for us to cut, and then cupcakes for our guests! It seemed to work out well. We also had a huge dessert bar at our wedding as well!

cake and cupcakes

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I wanted to do this, but my husband wasn't on board lol

We are doing a donut bar since the guest are getting dessert. We are getting a small cake for us to cut and getting some cookies and tarts to add to the late night buffet

I love the cupcake idea and thats what we are doing for our wedding. We might have one small tier at the top to cut into but cup cakes trickling down. Plus the cake doesn't always get eaten, and with cupcakes people could always take one and walk with it. Its easy to eat and well portioned.

We are doing a donut bar and ordering a small 1 tier cake for us to cut 🙂
Also thinking of doing a signature desert as well

I did both. 2 tier cake Reg cup cakes, mini gf cupcakes, cakepops, macaroons and theme shaped cookies. It'll be a better selection for those who aren't cake lovers.

A lot of people are doing a cake and cupcakes these days so don't feel like you are too out there. Cupcakes are generally easier to eat than a piece of cake on a plate. You can also have a few different flavours of cupcakes instead of just one with the cake. I like the idea!

The idea of doing cupcakes instead of a large cake really interests me as well! I️ think you could get some really fun, delicious cupcakes and like everyone else said, much easier and probably save some money too!

I was thinking about doing this too! Having cupcakes instead of a traditional wedding cake saves money and you don't have to worry about cutting slices for people. Having a smaller, more affordable cake for the bride and groom while everyone else gets cupcakes is smart. Cakes are a huge expense and when I have gone to weddings there were always other yummy desserts and treats that I never really had the desire to try the cake I'm not quite sure what I want yet but being Filipino sort of paves the way for me to having something ube flavoured (delicious purple yam, sorta like taro)

We're going to have a small cake for cutting and cupcakes. Large cakes might look nice, but they are expensive, a huge pain in the ass to store the leftovers, and challenging to serve. It is much easier to just hand out cupcakes.

Bakers now do such amazing things with, fondant and cupcakes. I would definitely do a small cake for the sake of cake cutting ceremony with mini cupcakes. Great idea

I think cupcakes would be very fun! Lots of people nowadays skip out on the big cake, so don't be afraid to do whatever you want! Neither me nor my fiancé are very big cake fans, so we're doing pies!

We served cake as a dessert with our meal and had a small cake for cutting. We also gave out fudge as our favours. I tend to think that small bite sized things are best for an occasion like this - fun, easy and fast! Cake pops are great for that too!