Spoilt wedding Cake

Lavendyr wrote: »

Personally I think the cake looks awful and £80 is not enough of a refund. I'd suggest £150 i.e. half. A wedding cake is not all about the taste, believe it or not - it's about the look and the photos you will look back on for years to come. A professional cakemaker should be able to make and package a wedding cake sufficiently to protect against the weather and should respect that the cake is going to be a centrepiece in many photos (the "cutting of the cake" being a tradition).

OP I hope you get a reasonable resolution. Personally, from a negotiation stance I would go in slightly over what you hope to achieve, and then settle somewhere between their offer and yours. Hope it works out and many congratulations on your marriage.

Personally I think the cake looks ok and a refund of £80 is perfectly reasonable.

This was not a professional cake maker, but a hobbyist. If you want a professional cake, you pay the going rate for a professional. Just like a pair of headphones from the £1 shop aren't going to look and perform the same as a pair of Beats/B&O etc headphones.

Take the £80, quit the fascination about the cake and enjoy your marriage.

notanewuser wrote: »

The OP should have contracted a professional cake maker if hats what they wanted.

Can you explain how this was not a professional cake maker? People keep saying that this baker was not a professional one but nobody explains why. Brides magazine advise an average cost of a cake is £300 (although this is unlikely to be 4 tiers) so it doesn't seem like this baker was much cheaper.

OlliesDad wrote: »

Can you explain how this was not a professional cake maker? People keep saying that this baker was not a professional one but nobody explains why. Brides magazine advise an average cost of a cake is £300 (although this is unlikely to be 4 tiers) so it doesn't seem like this baker was much cheaper.

This is a woman doing it as a hobby in her kitchen at home, not a professional cake making/decorating business.

Hence the lack of knowledge about transporting the cake. No professional cake maker would have transported a tiered cake ready assembled, it was never going to look good once it arrived even without the warm weather. The proportions are all wrong, the fondant work very clumsy and it looks like she used too much buttercream for the crumb coat.

And no, this cake maker wasn't much cheaper than a professional, they seem to be vastly overcharging for their level of expertise, but hey, it's a wedding, everyone hikes their prices up at the mention of the 'W' word.

OP, I'm sorry that you did not have the perfect day that you had planned for. I think many/most of us find that something goes awry on the big day simply because it is actually not possible for everything to be as special as we want it to be.

Looking back at my own wedding (more than 30 years ago) I am rather embarrassed at how finicky I was about things (and no, I was certainly not a 'Bridezilla'!) as I now can see things without the 'rose tinted glasses' that came with the wedding magazines.

The important thing is not the fripperies of the wedding day but the strength and stability of your marriage - I hope yours endures for many years to come.

I really think you should try and let go of this so that it does not poison your memory of your special day.

I'm absolutely craving cake now.