Wedding Cakes

I was surprised as well when I began pricing out cake options and I discovered that the price per serving of a wedding cake was more expensive than cupcakes! I had always thought the opposite would be true. We are meeting with our cake baker next week and we are debating between a three tiered cake or a two tiered cake with cupcakes. We also want to keep the top tier for our anniversary, so we haven't decided which route to take. The cupcakes are $3 each ($1.5 for small ones) and the cakes range from $4-$6 per serving! This is what I gave her as our inspiration, although I would really prefer not to have fondant... we'll see! The baker does not do slab cakes, so that's not an option for us. I think we're leaning towards getting small cupcakes too, so that people can try more than one flavour.

Cake inspiration

We are getting a 3 tiered cake. We found it more expensive to get a slab cake in addition to a smaller tiered cake so we just went with three and that should cover all of our 90 guests.

However, if you are going the slab cake route, i think they keep it hidden in the back so the guests only see your "for show" cake and then your guests think that magically they got enough slices out of that to serve everyone. ;-)

We opted to not have cake at all at our wedding. We just did mixed desserts. That being said. I would probably have gone for a 2 tier cake as we were less than 100 people.

This was our inspiration for our cake!

We are going with a 2 tier cake for cutting and pictures which will be similar to the pictures! And then have ordered cupcakes for our guests. Our cake was more expensive per serving than the cupcakes were too. $5.00/serving for the cake and $2.50 per cupcake - all together with a 20% discount from our cake lady and delivery to our venue it was still within budget coming in at about $600;

We have 230 guests so between 200 cupcakes and our 2 tier we will have plenty and probably some leftover!

I would suggest a small tiered cake for pictures and cutting and slab cakes for serving. The slab cakes don't have to be fancy and can just be kept in the back to be cut and served.

We did a 3 tier cake with assorted pastries. Just family was served cake and other guests pastries.

A slab will save you lots than paying certain charge per person. Just two small tiers for the cake table can work.