How To Save Money On A Wedding Cake

Everyone knows that planning a wedding reception is expensive. There’s no denying it. The wedding cake, the flowers, food for your guests, the venue, it soon mounts up to a heck of a bill. Because of this, it is important to take advantage of every opportunity to save on costs.

Everyone wants to have the perfect cake, the ideal centerpiece of any wedding reception. But not everyone can afford a cake the size of a Disney castle. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you can’t still have a beautiful cake. Follow these simple pieces of advice and you can have the best of both worlds – a beautiful but affordable cake.

Firstly, chose a cake with butter cream icing rather than fondant icing. Using fondant is so labor-intensive that it is usually the most expensive type of icing. However, a skilled cake decorator should be able to create a stylish cake using a more affordable type of icing. The resulting cake should look just as good and taste great. Keep that in mind when choosing wedding cake flavors.

Another way you can save money on your wedding cake by using flowers and ribbon for simple and elegant decoration rather than having the decorator create elaborate trimmings from icing. Floral decorations can be ordered from a florist for a low price and you can add it to the cake yourself. Artificial flowers are just as good and even cheaper. After all, nobody would expect you to have real flowers on your cake.

Couples who dream of showing off with a large, towering wedding cake can save money by choosing to add some false layers into their cake’s structure. The bride and groom can order enough servings to feed their guests but add extra layers of frosting covered icing. The guests will never know that part of the cake was only for show.

Sheet cakes are another great solution to saving money on your wedding cake. You could have a smaller cake made and decorated just for the cake cutting ceremony, then a large sheet cake to serve to the guests. That way you get the joy of having a beautiful centerpiece for the reception along with the simplicity of an affordable cake. Sheet cakes are not only cheaper but they are also much easier to serve.

The ultimate way to save money on a wedding cake is to ask a friend or family member to bake it for you. This is a nice way to not only cut down on costs but to also add a personal touch to the wedding. Guests will be all the more impressed with a cake if they know that it was made with loving care and attention by the bride’s mother or one of the other guests. This approach is becoming popular once again in the U.K as couples look back on harder times when their predecessors would have had a home made cake themselves. I hope these tips help you to get the best wedding cake possible.