Wedding Cake

This was told when I was considering the same option of the aspect of serving and saving cost.

Have the wedding cake with the top tier as your real and the last 2 tiers fake with icing to look elegant.

A slab enough to feed everyone can be cut by the venue as your doing or letting guests help themselves. This way you can leave the cake behind if you choose not to take it home. Every baker has a different cost per person of slices and inquire about that part when getting quotes.

A thought to keep in mind that I also considered was not everyone likes cake and cut back by 20% of the serving since a variety is on the sweet table.

I haven't experienced it, but I don't see a problem with it since you're serving dessert already. I would get one that's small enough to make it obvious that it's purpose is for the sake of having a cake to cut.

That's what me and my FH are doing!

We will have dainties on a separate table and s'mores for the bonfires so cake is not needed for the guests!

Our cake will be super small and based on our 250 person wedding I'm sure none of the guests will think it's for them. Of course after we cut the cake we will probably wrap it up and put it in the fridge in our cabin so unless people invade our cabin ours should be good for breakfast the next morning!!

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There will be lots of sweets and there is dessert served with dinner. I also don't want a lot of cake left over to bring home

Hi Stephanie,

If cake for everyone isn't in the budget, it's totally acceptable to just have a small cake for cutting. The only reason we went with a cake because we were able to have our venue waive the $4/pp cake cutting fee and our baker said we really only need to provide cake for up to 70% of the guests as on average some people won't want cake. This is especially true if there are other desserts provided. We ended up having a the small top tier left over to bring home to indulge on for after the wedding day.

I think as long as you let the venue know to bring it back to the kitchen to pack up so you can take it home after the event is fine.

We're having a small cutting cake and cupcakes for the guests. I think since you have lots of other sweets available, so you can probably get away with hiding it after the cutting.

We had a cupcake tower with a small cake for cutting/photos on the top tier. After we cut it the facility took the cake back to the kitchen and we told our guests to enjoy the cupcakes (this was in addition to the regular desserts the venue provided for our buffet).

We are doing this! Dessert is included with our price per plate so we are just doing a small cake for pictures and immediate family to eat.

We will most likely do the pictures right away and then keep it off to the side so no one touches it. But i really don't think people will go for it unless it is put out on a table with multiple servings available

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This exactly!!!!

Smart idea for the cake cutting and photo purposes. We on the other hand had plated service and had cake and assorted pastries served a piece with the dessert chosen part of the menu. The final design and tiers were perfect to serve everyone and not having waste behind.

If you don't mind a suggestion, get the top tier for yourself and a tier for the dessert table for those wanting cake and a fake tier with icing.

Just an idea of what your referring to the size of the cake. One thing in your case I would do is cut the sizes from 10", 8" and 6" to 8", 6" and 4" to save the cost.

I’m doing this!

We have dessert included in the meal. Also, we opted to serve guests cupcakes instead of cake at the midnight table.

So we have a two two tier cake (4” and 6”) we’ll privately cut the cake for some photos and the 6” we’ll save for our first year anniversary.

We decided on just a regular cake (strawberry shortcake) as our display and our dessert. Our venue made it for a very reasonable price - and the guests loved it! It's hard to justify a huge, beautiful wedding cake due to the price per guest. We were happy with our choice financially, taste wise, and I think it turned out really great looking!

As long as you have something else for dessert I see no problem with this... I like your idea of removing it after it's been cut though, then at least your guests won't be confused.

We haven't decided on the dessert with dinner yet, cupcakes are a great idea - I was leaning towards individual mini cheesecakes but now might like the cupcake idea more

I have been to weddings where they do this and people don't attempt to go for it! I am doing a small cake for cutting and photo's and then we just have cupcakes as the catering company I have won't cut any cake even if I pay they have refused. This is why we went with cupcakes, I had considered the donut wall or sweets table but this won