Making my own Wedding Cake

Also my gf got her wedding cake custom made at metro and it was amazing!! so delish and fresh and it was beautiful! im pretty sure she paid less than $100

Im actually making a fake 7 tier cake for display!! its so cheap and easy to do. fondant is sooo easy to work with and then i glued some jewels on it. i did a test cake and it turned out great! i think you can totally do this and it will save you tons of $$$$$

Looking back on my wedding day - too busy to make it the day before or the day of - but if you make it prior to that then I think it would be fine.

So if you are getting married on the Saturday - make the cake no later than the Thursday!

My sister is a trained chef that use to do wedding cakes/cupcakes and I helped, so I speak from some level of experience....lol.

One big thing I would weigh in on this decision is finding out when your vendor set-up is because that is when you have to bring in/set-up the cake and do touch-ups from transporting it (we always had to do touch-ups with the set-up no matter how careful we were during transport). If it is in between ceremony and reception, you'll be doing your pictures and/or in your dress. If it's the morning of, it might overlap with you getting ready.

I am not trying to convince you not to make your own cake, but I would recommend at least find another find with experience cake decorating to do the set-up the day of because it rarely works out timing-wise. You don't need that added stress.