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  • System
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    Captain_Bluebear wrote: »
    Have you been watching the news over the last two days OP?

    Nice guilt trip!
  • Aced2016
    Aced2016 Posts: 293 Forumite
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    I do get why your annoyed ! But how can money change that ?

    Getting money won't change the fact it was cracked etc.

    Me personally would be happy if my day went good and we enjoyed ourselves. I would accept the apology and the £80.00 and go for a nice meal with my new husband !

    Society has turned mad with money now ! Or maybe I'm the strange one. I just feel anything isn't perfect people's first thought is money, people die set up a just giving page for money. Small car accident - money it's never ending !!!

    Money will not make you happy nor will it change the situation.
  • greatgimpo
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    I think £80 is nowhere near enough. I would settle for no less than their house, car and life savings - such trauma you've been through should be recognised. :cool:
  • Red-Squirrel_2
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    avogadro wrote: »
    Nice guilt trip!

    It's true though, some of the things that have happened in the last few weeks really make the small things seem insignificant.
  • emmatthews
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    It's just a cake. It may be disappointing that it didn't live up to your expectation but it's still just cake. I would take the £80, the cake maker still paid for all the ingredients and made the cake so I think it's a pretty fair offer.

    I think £300 was very reasonable for a four tier cake. You'd pay not a lot less than that buying a non bespoke one from M&S.
  • Callie22
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    calleyw wrote: »
    Maybe the op is not a baker. But I am not sure I would want what is a essence a victoria sandwich with extra bits in to hold up another 3 tiers of cake.

    Hence why wedding cakes are normally fruit cake as it is dense and holds it shape.

    Each to there own.

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    Calley

    The baker sounds inexperienced. Any wedding cake with more than one tier - even if it's fruit - needs dowelling or some kind of spacer to support it. I'd expect anyone charging for a cake to know that, especially if they're making 'non-traditional' (i.e. not fruit) wedding cakes with any kind of frosting that's not going to be particularly stable in warmer weather. It's not very professional to provide a cake that's not going to stand up to transport and a bit of heat and if that happened to me I'd be mortified and very apologetic - and I say that as someone who has in the past made (and charged for!) wedding cakes. You have to accept that people get a bit odd about anything to do with weddings, and it's part of the territory - and it's the main reason I no longer make wedding cakes ...
  • thorsoak
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    evherkes wrote: »
    I'm not a baker that's why I went to what was supposed to be an knowledgable baker to bring my idea to reality. What I expect is honesty, if it's not realistic then tell me the ifs and buts and then work out (together) what can work. I find ssparks2003 sarcasm uncalled for.


    Can I just ask that if people want to post on this then they are actually of assistance rather than a passing opinion of me... I posted to ask for advice regarding the response I recieved as I feel that £80 is unacceptable. Just in case I haven't been clear up until this point.


    Thanks

    For goodness sake - don't be such a snowflake! If you posted on here, expecting lots of hugs, hun ....then you posted on the wrong website. You asked for opinions - you have them. If they are not in agreement with your thinking, then take that point with you as you ponder on what to do next.

    Me? In your shoes, I would think "I should have paid more for a professional cake-maker - but it tasted good". You cannot expect what is, essentially a victoria sandwich to stay fresh for more than a day or two.

    Anyone with a nous of sense would have accepted that a 4-tier cake requires the bottom tier at least to be a heavy fruit cake (which does keep), covered with royal icing which would also give strength to support a further three tiers which might then be a chocolate cake, a madeira cake and a light sponge. 4 tiers plus decoration would cost in excess of £200 to make - let alone the time and skill involved in the decoration. You paid cheap - you got cheap.

    Take the £80 and go for a meal with your new husband - and get on with your life and enjoy it - you do at least have a future to look forward to. Others don't.
  • Captain_Bluebear
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    thorsoak wrote: »
    For goodness sake - don't be such a snowflake! If you posted on here, expecting lots of hugs, hun ....then you posted on the wrong website. You asked for opinions - you have them. If they are not in agreement with your thinking, then take that point with you as you ponder on what to do next.

    Me? In your shoes, I would think "I should have paid more for a professional cake-maker - but it tasted good". You cannot expect what is, essentially a victoria sandwich to stay fresh for more than a day or two.

    Anyone with a nous of sense would have accepted that a 4-tier cake requires the bottom tier at least to be a heavy fruit cake (which does keep), covered with royal icing which would also give strength to support a further three tiers which might then be a chocolate cake, a madeira cake and a light sponge. 4 tiers plus decoration would cost in excess of £200 to make - let alone the time and skill involved in the decoration. You paid cheap - you got cheap.

    Take the £80 and go for a meal with your new husband - and get on with your life and enjoy it - you do at least have a future to look forward to. Others don't.

    Thorsoak, as ever, you put into words exactly what I didn't have the guts or time to type! Also I had no idea you had such knowledge about wedding cake construction! (it would appear from this OP's post that it's not common knowledge) but you are totally right once again!
  • Rosemary7391
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    Thorsoak, Captain Bluebear - read the next post up? Doesn't need to be fruit and Royal icing, does need appropriate support...
  • thorsoak
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    Rosemary - I've made wedding cakes (never for money - only ever for family) - and believe me, if you don't have a solid cake at the bottom, then a high-tier cake doesn't work! Also, in order to have best flavour and taste, there needs to be a fairly high fat/sugar content in proportion to flour/flavouring - otherwise the tiers need to be made with 48 hours of consumption. I do know what I'm talking about.
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