I'm getting married in 4 months! and I'm in love with so many cakes and i cant pick one! How did you choose your cake? Where you happy with it or would you change it if you could do it again. I need help. Please!!
I wanted something simple.And I new I did not want fodant. (I just do not like the taste and did not want then to spend there time on something that I new a lot of people where not going to eat.) My cake was four round tiers made of two different cakes one white with stawberry filling and the other chocolate with buttercream filling.There was a flower topper with flowers cascading down the side. It had some scroll work along the top of the layers. I was very happy with my cake.
I was very happy with my cake it turned out beautiful. I did find out that after the fact my cake topper (I had a bride and groom cake toppper sitting on the side.) fell and took out the side of my my cake. I had not idea hey fixed it just fine.
Here is a photo of it.
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barbydoll8 Junior Member
Joined: Apr 02, 2007
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Location: Largo Florida
Birthday: Oct 08
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:48 am
I've been married a looong time but when I did get married I had a 3 tier cheesecake wedding cake. My husband does not really care for really sweet bc so this was an alternative that everyone loved. It was simple and it was ivory instead of white but it was great!
I have been married for 18 years, and to tell you the truth, my cake wasn't anything special, I can't even remember what it looked like, or tasted like. (isn't that a shame?)
Makes me wish now that I knew more back then. I didn't have a choice of many to choose from, and it was all part of the facility package. (HOW DUMB OF ME)!
No worries though, we are planning a BIG 25 anniversary with a renewal, and reception the whole thing. This time it will be much more memorable. So I may be picking a lot of brains to get my perfect cake you guys.
That's why I put so much into designing and producing ALL of my cakes for everyone I make them for. I know you all feel the same way. Either do it with everything you have or don't do it at all. That is my new saying!!!
GeminiRJ Forum Fanatic
Joined: Aug 28, 2006
Posts: 1751
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:00 am
I hardly remember my wedding cake! At the time, I just didn't care what the thing looked like...I wanted it to taste good. We got all our cakes for office birthdays at a local bakery, so that's where I went. I checked some photos, and the cake was pretty under-whelming...I could do a whole lot better myself! Back then, I hadn't been bitten by the cake decorating bug. That didn't happen until I had kids.
I got married almost 8 yrs ago. My cake was quite ugly, though at the time I honestly didn't care. I was 19 yrs old and still in college and my parents were forking out the cash for everything (and by everything, I mean new house furniture, my vehicle, EVERYTHING), so I tried to go as cheap as possible (and make everything as convenient as I could for them). SO...my cake came from....WalMart (gasp!) In a very rural area like mine, it was my best option (that, or food lion). Do I regret it....no. Did I even have time at the reception to eat it...no. So, other than the fact that in my pictures I have big, gaudy orange BC roses, with a ceramic teddy bear topper (YIKES) it was all good
First off, Sedd2007, if you're typing on CC and you just got married Saturday, girl, you're hooked on this site!! LOL
Second, I want to dig up my wedding photos now because I also can't remember what mine looked like, but I did find it in a Wilton cake book 30 years ago! It was looking through that book that I got hooked on decorating, but didn't pursue it for a couple of years. As for my cake, they delivered it but forgot the top layer and topper. They brought it finally, but was I ever upset!
patticake1951 Regular Member
Joined: Nov 29, 2006
Posts: 175
Location: Cookeville Tn
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:15 am
I got married 3 yrs ago and my sister and dd did my cake, It was all white cake w/bc icing and decorated w/ silk flowers here is a picture of it. I thought that it was really beautiful. They both did a good job on it. They are not professionals and have not had any classes.They just love doing it.
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Kate714 Forum Fanatic
Joined: Aug 12, 2006
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Location: Connecticut
I got married about eight years ago and was not into cakes then...could have cared less what it looked like! However, I still do love the design. My dress had lots of pearls (the only decoration on my dress) so for my cake, I just did white dots on white, with strands of pearls around the base and a small real floral topper. Sometimes I think, the design was so simple, I could have done that!
mommy2owen Junior Member
Joined: Apr 03, 2007
Posts: 74
Location: Georgia
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:22 am
I got married 6 years ago, about a year before I started doing cakes myself. My husband's aunt had worked in a bakery for several years and offered to do the cake for us for free. I was sooooo disappointed when I saw the cake on my wedding day. I didn't even recognize it. Technically, I suppose it was the cake that I had picked out, but she left out so many small details that were on the original cake, and I had asked for just the slightest hint of color in the flowers and leaves and what I got was very bright colors. I wanted to cry.
So, now I keep that feeling in mind every time I make a cake for someone. I want to make sure that they have a good experience and aren't left feeling the way that I did.
tcbalgord Regular Member
Joined: Jul 10, 2007
Posts: 116
Location: Over the rainbow, WI.
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:24 am
I have been married just over a year. All we really wanted was something that tasted good. Of course we wanted it to look nice but taste a texture were top of the list. We went to 15 bakeries, got to take samples home and sat tasting and going over prices.
Looking back on it now I wish we wouldn't have spent so time choosing; neither one of us remembers what our cake tasted like on the day of our wedding, since we only got to eat the piece we smashed.
Good luck and congratulations!
Tellis12 Frequent Member
Joined: Nov 10, 2005
Posts: 396
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:24 am
We were on a tight budget (I think, including my dress we spent about $1000 for 40 guests), and I was going to try to make my own cake but then I found someone at Kroger who would make my cake. It was simple and only cost me $40. I wish I could thank the woman who made it because I know she went to a lot of extra work and didn't have to do it at all (they don't do wedding cakes). I know that a lot of people on this site would never have done it for that much but it meant a lot that I was able to get a pretty cake. It also tasted really good, everyone raved about it.
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Incognito Junior Member
Joined: Mar 11, 2007
Posts: 59
Location: Australia
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:29 am
I got married in December and my cake was a 3 tier chocolate mud cake. Tasted soo good, we were eating cake for a month though, we only used half the bottom tier!!
Still can't remember what my cake looked like but I do remember on our first anniversary taking the top layer out of the freezer only to throw it away since back then you could smoke at the reception and the cake tasted like a pack of cigarettes!
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I didn't even recognize it. Technically, I suppose it was the cake that I had picked out, but she left out so many small details that were on the original cake, and I had asked for just the slightest hint of color in the flowers and leaves and what I got was very bright colors. I wanted to cry. 
