What wedding cake are you having?

weenireeni

I am still deciding what to have as wedding cake, and torn between cupcakes and traditional

I love this one from m and s but cant afford it and we only need it for about 70

http://www.marksandspencer.com/Marks-and-Spencer-Classic-Chocolate/dp/B00170PCYQ?ie=UTF8&qid=1269440669&ref=sr_1_2&sr=1-2&page=&node=80083031&mnSBrand=core&rh=

have you got any bargains? or any pics as inspiration??

thanks

clearing_out_my_pockets

We're having cupcakes - £2 each plus £65 for a top tier to any design we want.

If you wanted, M&S do great cupcakes (I think they're either £3 or £4 for a box of 4) & you can get a stand from ebay.

floss2

10" fruit, 6" lemon sponge, ivory icing, fresh flowers on top - £190. The fruit cake is already made, wedding is in September so lots of feeding between now & then :beer:

crldnll

Hi, we're having cupcakes, found a local lady that could make them and it's costing us £220 for 120 cupcakes and a giant cupcake for the top

Alyssa_C_2

Shamelessly stolen from wedding cake site

Cost
A well-made and unique wedding cake design isn't cheap but there are ways of keeping costs down. One way is to choose a sponge cake rather than the traditional fruitcake, or perhaps have one sponge cake tier and the other fruitcake? Not only will you be cutting costs, you'll also be able to please guests whose taste palettes don't extend to rich fruitcake. Chocolate cake is also an alternative.
Also consider the importance of a unique wedding cake. A good wedding cake supplier will be able to customise an otherwise standard wedding cake design to match your theme colours, thus making it unique to you without the added cost of designing a cake from scratch.

So maybe you can talk to local shops and bargin with them?

stef240377

My wedding cake was an M&s one. Luckily last year they ran a 342 on individual cake tiers so managed to bag mine for £75 but as i already ahd a £20 gift voucher managed to get it knocked down a bit more. It then cost £43 for the decoration. Similar cakes to mine have been priced up to £300. - link to pic - http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?album_id=307260715&photo_id=653729027

vicvic_3

i just can't get my head around spening £300 on a cake so we are going with asda's cup cakes which are on special so 8 cakes for £2 and then they do a big cup cake for £5 alltogether £30 ish or we will get 3 of their exrta special occasion cakes which will work out £30 ish.

morwenna

Ive ordered from here, if you are in the right area

http://www.sweet-art-cakes.co.uk/page3.htm

frannyann

We have ordered 35 cupcakes, with a top 'cutting' cake. Including the stand and boxes to put them in is costing just under £100!!
http://www.timelesstreats.co.uk/Weddings.html

Sammy85_2

Im having the biggest cake possible!!! Home made effort, so depends what size tins i can get. :-D

anderson8

ours is coming from here
http://www.darrellscakes.com/

and this is how we want it to look but with 3 tiers instead of four