Wedding cakes

ginger_tony

I bought my cake from M&S , bought cake ribbon and decorations from ebay. I made mine a three tier cake two fruit cakes and a sponge for the kids, everyone loved it and it was cheap to boot. I think I paid around £80 as opposed to £300/400 or upwards and it was more personal because we gave it our own touch.

pimento

Waitrose Entertains do lovely cakes. I bought a plain sponge covered in icing for my 50th birthday and put a topper on it and it looked great and everyone said it tasted wonderful.

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kmmr

If you go onto the wedding board here on MSE you will see lots of people singing the praises of M&S Cakes. If you keep an eye out you can normally get three for two (which just means the little one is free. It's only about £12 I think).

We had a very posh wedding recently and used the M&S Cakes. You need to buy the little cake columns, and we decorated it with Ribbon to match the bridesmaid dresses, and got a few extra flowers to bring it together with the theme. We also got a couple of cutting bars which we decorated to match our theme. It looked fantastic and tasted great. My Dad is a bit of a fruit cake connoisseur and couldn't believe how good it tasked.

Here is a picture:

The cutting bars were sponge, and they were also really nice. Light and tasty, lovely fruit jam filling. I think we picked them up about 2 days before the wedding but they still tasked super fresh on the day. You can order a fair way in advance and then pick up on an agreed date.

mandragora_2

Tesco do two sizes of white fruit cakes:

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/search/default.aspx?searchBox=fruit+cake

barbiedoll

Another vote here for M&S...I had two tiers at my wedding and I went to a cake decorating shop and bought loads of blingy things to put on the top, it looked great!

My sister got married in a hurry and her sis-in-law also used M&S cakes. She decorated them a little more tastefully than I did mine but they still tasted great.

I can't understand why anyone would pay £400 for a cake! :eek:

cuthbert_the_octopus

Another vote for Waitrose.

I made my own cupcakes and then had a top tier cake from Waitrose - it was chocolate, covered in buttercream and then white fondant. I think now you can buy boxes of cupcakes just for occasions like a wedding, or you could buy fairy cakes from the supermarket and decorate yourself - which could be simple depending on your design. I am sure the ladies (and gents) from the special occasions cake thread could help with this.

I chose this over M&S as I dont like marzipan and at the time all the M&S cakes were covered in it.
Before, I knew this my plan was to buy 1 presentation cake (for display and cutting), and to buy the remaining portions as cutting bars - these are much cheaper and once the cake it cut up and distributed no one will notice the difference.

As for presentation I bought a cake stand from Ebay - used it for the wedding and then re-sold it - getting back approx. what I paid for it.

We also had a personalised cake topper from Ebay - this was my indulgence and was quite expensive (well I made the cupcakes, and the top cake was a 'normal' cake so wasnt over priced!).
It was us dressed in our wedding clothes, so it looks like us, and still sits on our bookcase 2 years after the event - for me it was really worth the expense.

A supermarket cake can look great with some personalisation, and no one will know where it came from.