Your wedding should be one of the most memorable days in your life, for all the right reasons. Let’s talk about just the cake portion of your wedding. (Cake-Portion, see what I did there)
Part of getting your wedding prepared is the reception and of course the main centrepiece the cake. The cake can be any type from a simple style to the most elaborate. I have seen everything from obscenely expensive; a five tiered, four foot cake; to the relatively inexpensive, a giant pile of caramel glazed donuts with a bride and groom balanced on the top.
When sitting down with a wedding cake designer they will offer a cake around 400 pounds and up. Fella’s, I hear ya. 400 bloody quid for a cake. But the nightmare doesn’t end there. The designer will then go to work on your beautiful bride to be. The more decorative you get with the cake the more it will cost. If you decide to have each layer in the cake be a different filling the cost will also increase. If you want 2 tiers it’s this much if you want 3 tiers it’s that much…..
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
This is about the time where you want to say to the missus, ‘you know what love, you choose. I’m just gonna go and bang my head against the brick wall outside.’
DON’T DO IT!!!
When you come back she’ll be sitting there with an invoice for £1000 and a smile on her face that says, ‘I want this cake and if you don’t let me have it you are a heartless monster.’ Either that or you’ll get the standard line, ‘but honey, it’s our wedding day.’ Like that magically conjures up another credit card from the rabbit hole that says simply ‘Use Me.’
Only you can know how much you want to spend on the cake. Remember that there are some ways to spend a little less if you have a restrictive budget. A silly thing to do would to spend more on your wedding cake then you do on your wedding dress. But don’t get me started on the dress, that’s a whole other blog.