Wedding Cakes - budgets & styles

missiemog

grateful for info on what everyone's planned/had re wedding cakes.

how much (if you don't mind sharing) did your cake cost and what did you get for it?

thanks in advance for sharing - will give me a good heads up as to what I should be looking at / aiming for!

x

sammy_wheeler

i am having a cupcake cake- 60 cupcakes, and one tier- hire of cake stand, and delivery for £170
this is the desert too so saves us money there

4nnabella

I'm getting a four tier 'wonky' cake for £300. All sponge, but each tier in a different flavour - chocolate, lemon, White choc & raspberry (2 tiers in this flavour). Should be enough for approx 95 servings (got about 75 people coming)...

sarah_elton

This was ours:



Cost £250 including delivery and set up. We had a chocolate sponge bottom tier, then a lemon sponge middle tier and a gluten-free chocolate sponge top tier (each tier was layered with the sponge and ganache - lovely and gooey). We had little choice in cake maker as most couldn't/wouldn't do gluten-free (hubby has coeliac disease). But luckily this one did the best cake I tried anyway! The whole cake was covered in white chocolate scrolls.

Was big enough to feed 80 but we ended up with half a tier to take home so our venue must have cut small pieces.

Supplied by Cake Flair, near Ipswich.

sammy_wheeler

thats lovely sarah
have you got any pictures of your flowers? x

sarah_elton

PM sent sammy

sammy_wheeler

thanks sarah x

random_one_2

We wanted something a bit different so opted for a cheese wedding cake - it cost £180 for around 10 kilos of different types of cheese. Not everyone's cup of tea as it sways away from the traditional, but it looked fantastic and was a massive hit with the guests!

gandy

haven't bought the wedding cake but thinking of going down the m&s route.

OH and I really like the Romantic Pearl Cake (which is £199) and while OH would also like 48 Vanilla or Chocolate Cupcakes as well (£35 also at M&S) i really really want the m&s Noah's Ark cake (£45) just because it has the cutest two elephants on the deck of the ark and i'm crazy about elephants!

although i've been banned from having elephants as a theme cause OH thought they would look silly! i don't mind everything else has fallen in with a theme of summer, butterflies and just general happiness but dammit i want that cake lol

maggie111

Thanks for this thread and thanks for the answers, it wasn't something I had properly considered... Now I've just fallen in love with this...

http://www.marksandspencer.com/White-Chocolate-Curls-Wedding-Cake/dp/B003J3QYOQ?_encoding=UTF8&categoryNodeID=199646031&node=80083031&mnSBrand=core&ref=sr_1_7&qid=1279908034&sr=1-7&rh=&page=

Thanks gandy!

Sammy85_2

Im having a 5 tier cake.

Top and bottom tiers with ribbon round, middle three tiers with the vows on them. "To have and to hold" "to love and to cherish" "from this day forward"

Mixture of flavours - (from bottom up) Fruit, Sponge, Chocolate, pink lemonade & marble cake.

Price is £250 inc delivery and setup at the venue. Shes a local lass, i think maybe in her 2nd or 3rd year of doing cakes. She does alot of birthday cakes. Really amazing some of the shapes of cakes she makes.