Today is our 39 year wedding anniversary and I have to say I don't really remember my wedding cake. I have one picture of us cutting it. It had plastic columns and swans and real daisies. I don't remember eating any of it, but I imagine it was good. It came from the bakery in the little strip mall behind the chapel we were married in Santa Ana, CA. There was a flower and tux shop there too. You got special prices for using these shops. It was a great deal because we didn't have to run all over pricing stuff. I got my beautiful dress on sale at JC Penney's for about $90. I wasn't too particular. I was moving to Kansas to be a farm wife and that was more important to me I guess. I want a reception next year for our 40th. I want my kids and sisters to make the arrangements and I'll make the cake. 40 years is a dang long time!!! LOL
This is a fun topic. It's interesting to hear what emphasis people put on their wedding cakes. My outlook has always been make it as beautiful as possible, look at it for a while, snap some pics and then let's cut the sucker and eat it. It's the desert not the marriage. I'll be watching this thread for a while for more stories.
I LOVE GOOD CAKE!!!
NickiKR Junior Member
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
Posts: 31
Location: Victoria, BC
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Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:48 am
Our wedding cake was okay. It is all mini-cakes with a 6" topper decorated with red roses and holly. The cakes were gorgeous, but the stand we rented to display them was white plastic and it was ugly. It really took away from the overall look.
And it was okay tasting. Not great. The filling was yummy, but the actual cake was kinda dull.
However, in the big picture, the cake played a very small role. We had a very small, intimate gathering of 25 of our closest famly and friends. It was a morning ceremony follwed by a delicious brunch. The day was glorious with or without the cake.
ANicole Forum Addict
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Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:07 pm
This is a fun thread! I am sorry for all of you who hated your wedding cake! My husband and I eloped to the Florida Keys in April, 2005 for our wedding. I called up a wedding coordinator, and she handled everything for all of $350! My dress was $300! So it was inexpensive to say the least! Which is totally up my alley! Anyway, I've always LOVED to eat cake, just started decorating cakes within the past year or so, and the coordinator said she knew someone who was going to do the cake. I didn't even ask what it would look like. I don't think I had a choice. I could pick white, chocolate or Key lime. I picked Key lime, and it was SOOOOOOO YUMMY! I was so happy that day (thinking about it could get me teary-eyed), and when they brought my cake out, I took about 80 pictures of it, and raved about how beautiful my wedding cake was! I just found a pic of it, and really, I don't remember it looking this way !! haha I remembered it exquisitely beautiful! Funny how that works! I still look at it and smile, though. I still think it's beautiful, even though compared to Mommyle's beachy cake, it pales in comparison! hahaha
Oh - I was 4 mos preggie at the time, and between me and my husband, we ate the entire cake in a matter of 2 days (no lie)! We had it replicated here for our first anniversary and ate the anniversary tier in 1 day! hahaha
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lepaz Frequent Member
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Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:26 pm
Too funny! I LOVED my wedding cake (2nd and last marriage)!! My MIL was soo happy to finally have us getting married (after 8 years) that she planned the whole thing (plus I was moving from AZ to WA a week before the wedding). We did it with a 1500 budget The funny thing is it was beautiful but I wasn't !!!! In all the packing I forgot to tan my shoulders for the dress so I had a two tone tan thing going on with my shoulders which made them look like quarterback shoulders (or should that be lineman?) and I got my eyebrows waxed at the mall and they totally screwed them up so I had to hide them with my bangs (yuck)and I would have hired a prof photographer. BUT, the wedding was beautiful and the cake was marvelous (we ordered extra because we knew we wanted to eat it for days after ) My MIL is still on cloud nine, she has one more to marry off, very handsome, no kids...any takers???
I actually have no memory of what design I chose. I do know that I wouldn't have chosen something....gaudy and ugly. I booked with the first bakery I had a tasting with, because I was a working mom and had no other time to do it except lunch break. It was actually a bakery known for cheesecakes (we had a cheesecake groom's cake) so maybe I should have known better. The cake was executed well, but the design was just...heinous. Giant pink buttercream borders(??? what ARE those things on top????) with clashing pink buttercream roses. I was embarrassed and humiliated, but I tried to pretend that everything was fine. When I started doing wedding cakes I vowed to myself to never make a bride feel the way I felt that day.
The bakery in question has long since gone out of business.
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JMarieSweets Junior Member
Joined: Mar 15, 2008
Posts: 42
Location: Mckinney, Tx
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Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:16 pm
We had 2 cakes. Married in Vegas and the "chapel" doing the wedding provided a cake. The lady brought it in and said "Its a real wedding cake!" It was a tiny thing from a grocery store and not very good.
A couple months later we had a reception for family and friends and my mother made the cake. I loved that one and it was so nummy. The fact that my mom took the time and love to do that made it even more special
ChristianCakeBaker Junior Member
Joined: Jun 04, 2008
Posts: 36
Location: The HUMID state
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:34 am
kelleym- omg... that cake is the gaudiest i've ever seen. it looks like something that came out of the golden girls. lol.. i bet it tasted good though. it has about 40 lbs. of icing- just in the borders-
You guys are scaring me! Maybe I DO want to make my own cake, at least then I'm the one in control of all the disasters.
tammieadam Junior Member
Joined: Jul 16, 2006
Posts: 38
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:22 pm
I MUST put mine on here too. It's pretty bad. Honestly, I didn't care what the cake, or anything else for that matter, looked like. My mother planned this wedding, and me? I was madly in love and nothing really mattered. How I regret that.
I remember choosing this design from either a 2000-2001 Wilton book. Maybe somebody has this book for comparison...and maybe my memory is foggy, but I remember the picture looking so much prettier in the book.
So I went to this little shop that recently opened (they're closed now, of course) and told her what I wanted. Yes, the ugly topper was my choosing. I suppose she wanted to match the ugly topper and gave me the tuk-n-ruffle. Lucky me. And what's up with those bright green leaves poking out everywhere?!?! It was disgusting. Nasty. Dry. You get the picture...
SO, here's the disaster!!
This cake was a result of many, MANY bad decisions. How I'd change EVERYTHING if I could. Maybe a vow renewal should be in the works.
Molliebird Regular Member
Joined: May 19, 2006
Posts: 177
Location: Ontario, Canada
Birthday: Dec 03
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:51 pm
I really didn't hate my cake. It was a four tier heart shaped cake. 24 years ago and bought at a bakery. My fiance and I went into the bakery, were handed a book of cakes and asked which one we wanted. I picked out my favourite and was asked if I wanted a dummy cakes. I told her I wanted all real. She asked me which flavour. Didn't offer any variety so I just said vanilla. She asked me when the wedding date was and the place. Asked for payment in full and that was it.
When we arrived at reception, the cake was beautiful. When my husband and I went to cut a part of it to give to each other, I realized I couldn't cut through it (the cake board prevented us from doing so). I was never told anything about this and didn't know a thing abouts cakes then. Through clenched teeth and as the photographer was snapping pictures, I told my husband "there is cardboard in there and I can't cut it". We did the best we could to pretend we were cutting it but didn't get to share any cake with each other. I didn't bother to contact the bakery. The next day my mom told me the cake was real but that the bakery had put the icing on top of the cardboard so people were just eating cake with no icing. Most of it went into the garbage.
That was after my wedding dress had beads missing on it when I picked it up the day before my wedding. My mom and I had to rush out to buy beads at a department store to fix it as when I realized it, it was too late to complain to the bridal shop.
All in all we had a beautiful wedding and when we came back from our honeymoon, those things just didn't matter anymore to me. We are still happily married today.
loriemoms Forum SuperStar!
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:52 pm
when I got married 100 years ago (1979) it was UNHEARD of to have chocolate cake with white icing! But it was my favorite and I wanted chocolate cake with white icing for my wedding cake! My mom had already worked out a deal with this bakery (they did ALL the cakes for caterer we were using) and I had to FIGHT with the baker that I wanted chocolate cake! I also didnt want a bride and groom on top, I wanted something DIFFERENT! haha! I guess I was ahead of my time.
I did get my chocolate cake with white icing..it was the typical 70s cake with white swags and lots and lots of buttercream edging and pillars. You know what I mean! And I had doves on top! Really tacky doves.
I don't remember what it tasted like. We had our little bite and then were pulled away to do something else and I never got a piece. I tell my brides to have someone save you some cake, some food, and put it in a box and have it read to go into the limo or hotel room, as you won't get to eat ANYTHING! hahaha!
The oddest cake I ever had was at my brothers wedding in the mid 80s...they cut the cake and then it was wisked off..I have always loved cake and we were anxiously waiting for a piece! Out came these bowls of raspberry stuff (I wasn't sure what it was) that they had poured over these broken up peices of cake!!! It was AWFUL. I thought the cake had fallen apart or something, but my brother told me it was done on purpose, that is how they ordered it. YECK. What a waste of cake!
I am curious to hear how much people paid for thier cakes! (I think mine was 150 dollars which was a HUGE amount of money back then!)
JulieB Forum Addict
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:42 pm
My wedding cake was a disaster.
I ordered peach lilies, on that old floating tiers stand (it was 1991, that was popular then). I told the cake lady repeatedly that I wanted peach, not pink. I told her if she was going to err, err on the orange/coral side, my wedding was not pink, I was afraid of pink. I specifically asked if she could make lilies, and did she have that stand. Yes, and yes.
God bless my sister, who told me before my wedding "Just remember, whatever goes wrong, because something will go wrong, smile. Your guests do not know that this is not just what you ordered." Good thing.
When I walked into my reception and saw my cake covered with pink roses, that was all my mind heard. "Smile, Julie, the guests do not know that this is not just what you wanted."
I actually had a lot of compliments on my cake, but it was just so not what I wanted. I did not ask for any kind of money back, though. We ate that cake and went on our honeymoon.
I have no pictures of that cake. LOL After the years that followed, I destroyed any pictures from my wedding, when I happily divorced that man!
missmeg Frequent Member
Joined: Jun 04, 2007
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Location: Seacoast, NH
Birthday: Nov 09
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:46 am
I was so dumb when it came to my wedding cake. I had no clue how important it was *supposed* to be. I budgeted only $100 for the cake (stupid me!!) and I was perfectly happy going to the grocery store for it. I had no clue there were actual BAKERIES who would do this sort of thing.
So I got a 3-tier grocery store cake. Single layers, no tortes. BC icing and decorations, with fucia pink and navy blue roses.
I cringe every time I see a pic of it.
SugarMama602 Regular Member
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Posts: 147
Location: Phoenix
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:36 pm
rebekahjohnson81 wrote:
SugarMama - I LOVE those figures on that cake!! where did you get them?!?
We have an art walk downtown on the first Friday of every month and a vendor was selling these. My husband bought them for me and it was his idea! I just chose to put them on the bottom tier, rather than the top, because I liked those spiky pink flowers so much.
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Which is totally up my alley! Anyway, I've always LOVED to eat cake, just started decorating cakes within the past year or so, and the coordinator said she knew someone who was going to do the cake. I didn't even ask what it would look like. I don't think I had a choice. I could pick white, chocolate or Key lime. I picked Key lime, and it was SOOOOOOO YUMMY! I was so happy that day (thinking about it could get me teary-eyed), and when they brought my cake out, I took about 80 pictures of it, and raved about how beautiful my wedding cake was! I just found a pic of it, and really, I don't remember it looking this way !! haha I remembered it exquisitely beautiful! Funny how that works! I still look at it and smile, though. I still think it's beautiful, even though compared to Mommyle's beachy cake, it pales in comparison! hahaha
The funny thing is it was beautiful but I wasn't 
!!!! In all the packing I forgot to tan my shoulders for the dress so I had a two tone tan thing going on with my shoulders which made them look like quarterback shoulders (or should that be lineman?) and I got my eyebrows waxed at the mall and they totally screwed them up so I had to hide them with my bangs (yuck)and I would have hired a prof photographer. BUT, the wedding was beautiful and the cake was marvelous (we ordered extra because we knew we wanted to eat it for days after 
) My MIL is still on cloud nine, she has one more to marry off, very handsome, no kids...any takers???
