Choosing Your Wedding Cake

Choosing your wedding cake can be simplified when you keep things in perspective. The wedding cake is NOT the most important part of the wedding or reception. Lots of guests at the wedding will not even see it or eat any of it.

I know that lots of movies, portraying a couple planning their wedding, have scenes with the couple tasting cake, followed by a reception with this magnificent, elaborate, creation that must have cost a fortune. This is all fine and good if you want to go about things this way, but for the sake of planning your wedding for less, let's discuss some money saving ideas.

You have to first stay within your budget. Now if your budget allows for an elaborate display and this is where you really want to spend your money, then by all means "have your cake and eat it too". However, if your budget would call for a much less expensive creation, you may want to have a very simple cake.

Many brides know friends or relatives that can put together a very nice, tasty cake for much less than the bakery. In some towns there is the bakery of a supermarket, or other store, that will make a cake that tastes fresh, howbeit not extraordinary for much less.

One way to save, in almost any bakery, is to order the cake without mentioning the word wedding. The words wedding cake will sometimes make the price jump by a significant amount.

You can simply have three single cakes placed on three separate pedestals of varying heights (borrowed if you don't own them), with flowers and tulle draped around the bases of the pedestals and "voila" you have a very nice display for much less.

You may also want to consider some of the newer trends. many couples are opting for cupcakes and even cookies instead of the traditional cake. If this is your option of choice, you can save even more money and still give every body the satisfaction of having a piece of "wedding cake".