Poundland cake boxes - too fiddly?

Amymo

Have taken a day off to do some wedmin without H2B rolling his eyes at my crazy to do list! Just got out the packs of cake boxes (bride and groom boxes from poundland) they're lovely, but really fiddly, not an issue to me but probably would be if I was the poor catering team boxing up our cake as each 'bride' needs to be put together and tied with a ribbon, the 'grooms' aren't too bad as they have a flap at the bottom to open

so... has anyone used them and was your caterer ok? Should I just buy new plain lidded boxes instead? Any thoughts from others?

LegalBlonde

the people doing food at our venue aren't looking after our cake. we have the same boxes, i haven't had a look at them yet but sounds like they will be quite time consuming!! i did attend a wedding recently where they also had them and when i mentioned i had, they didn't say anythin about them being fiddly or anything. Family made their cake so presume they put together themselves.

Is your caterer the person making your cake or the catering at the venue? Whichever it is, does that usually involve putting the boxes together??

LEJC

Are you planning to give everyone a slice of cake in a box...or are you just boxing it up for people who didnt attend the wedding?
Ive never been to a wedding where the cake was served in boxes...I think you would need to speak to your caterer to see what they say...most of the time they just hand around cake on platters or thats how its been at the weddings ive been to...your caterer is the best to ask to see if its csomething that they are prepared and have the time to do
If you are just boxing the cake to give to people who didnt attend then you or someone else will be able to box the pieces up at a later stage...

Amymo

Ooh the plot thinkens! I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and when we left we were all given a slice of cake boxed up to take away, so I assumed this is the done thing as I've been to very few weddings!

The caterers said they would slice up the cake which a family member is making and because my friend's caterers boxed it up I thought ours would too, I just haven't asked them yet and these are way to fiddly for that!

Maybe we should have them hand it out at 9ish instead and ditch the boxes, we're just buying a fruit cake bar to send to our work places and everyone else will be there on the day!

LEJC

In my experience the boxes are usually used for people to get a piece of cake if they've not been at the wedding...but you could stack a few boxes next to your cake and let people help themselves at the end if they want to take a slice home...

Traditionally you would send or give a piece of cake in a box to all those who didnt attend the wedding...but ive not seen them used for years..and I think we sent about 4 out after we got married as a token with the thankyou card to the guests that sent a present but coudn't attend

Dekazer

Crickey, I've never even heard of that. The only cake tradition I'd heard of was saving the top tier for the firstborn's Christening, which seems a bit old fashioned now. Nice idea to save it for people who couldn't come, but it seems a faff, not to mention that lots of people don't like fruit cake and I can't imagine other types of cake travel very well.

I was rather banking on taking all our leftovers on honeymoon!

LEJC

Dekazer wrote: »

Crickey, I've never even heard of that. The only cake tradition I'd heard of was saving the top tier for the firstborn's Christening, which seems a bit old fashioned now. Nice idea to save it for people who couldn't come, but it seems a faff, not to mention that lots of people don't like fruit cake and I can't imagine other types of cake travel very well.

I was rather banking on taking all our leftovers on honeymoon!

our wedding cake seemed to go on for months after the wedding...I think we really overestimated how much would get eaten...and yes it was fruit ....believe me the more you can get rid of on the day the better....Think we even put candles in the last bits for our birthdays 6 months later...

palmerjenny

I've used the same boxes as favour boxes. We're only having a small family wedding, and my bridesmaid thinks they look fab (they are already done!). The bride was much more fiddly than the groom. I wouldn't want to do lots!