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So- 7 tiers, assuming square just because I'm looking for greatest amount of servings... is 560 servings (18" to 6") 100,000 divided by 560 is $178/slice...[/quote]

OMG.

How do we not know they spent half of that amount - or more - on their charities or organizations of choice? It is an exuberant amount but it is their money.

I am also wondering that will drive the cake to that dollar amount besides a famous cake name. It iwll probably have crystals, diamonds, pearls or real gold on it.

They got a call that it was a famous person and that bumped the price up waaaay beyond what it really should be.
People charge it only because famous people WILL pay it.
Oh what i could do with 100000.00

Well, if she is marrying the guy that owns LV, they just got 60 Million from ebay b/c ebay allowed fake purses and perfumes to be sold on their site. So, no $100,000 isn't a big number. And we can say all day long that we would give, give, give (and I'm a big giver), but we aren't there & don't know what we'd do. I'm sure they do give, give, give. And a lot of times designers will give dresses to celebs so their name is published. I remember an interview w/ Madonna some time after she had her daughter and said she didn't have to buy clothes for herself or her dd b/c designers sent her clothes everyday. So, we think they spend all this money (and they do) but they have a lot given too.

I can't wait to see what that cake will look like!

Salma actually produces Ugly Betty. I also believe that she has a big charity thingy that she donates money to.

Like I said, her fiance is the president of a big luxury goods company, so this is a drop in the bucket.

While we cannot fathom a $100k cake, many people feel that a sheet cake from Wal Mart is just as good as the ones we here on cc make. Some people cannot fathom paying $3 or $4 a serving for a custom cake

It's all relative, you know!

Selma Hayek is actually very involed in charity work.... she has her own foundation for women in abusive relationships. There's much more she is involved in (she has represented Avon and their Domestic Violence Campaign, etc.) and I'd say she is one of the more grounded celebs out there. Bottom line, it is their money and they can do with it what they choose. --Same as the common man (that's you and me, folks.)

More on Selma:
http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/116-salma-hayek

For those wanting to know what a $100,000 cake looks like:
Check out:
www.sylviaweinstock. com

She's been in the business for over 30yrs. and her "average" cake sells for over $100,000.

All I can say is that at least they are supporting the economy - the seamstress', the caterer, etc.

But, I can say that if I had gotten the call, I would have have to turn in down. Why?! I'm afraid my doctor's bills would have been higher than $100 K due to the heart attack and stroke caused by making a cake that expensive.

When is the wedding?

Okay, realizing I'm probably opening up a can of worms, but............

.........if you want to talk wasteful, what about all the sport figures who get payed millions of dollars (esp. baseball) for PLAYING a GAME? That's just one of those things that I can never wrap my brain around. I love to play games, why doesn't someone pay me $500 a week for bowling on my Wii? Huh? See, I'm not even being greedy and asking for $10,000 a week.

My first thought when I started reading this was also the disgusting amounts of money they are paying people to play games. No way in this world any one person is worth millions of dollars a year to play football, baseball or any other game. One thing it does is make the tickets prices just go higher and higher and fewer people can go see a game in person.

I think we are all under selling ourselves.
This is what the well known 'popular' people charge. We all just need that one big name/break, and then we could charge prices like these.


Sylvia Weinstock at www. sylviaweinstock.com â 22.00 per slice
www. robynlovescake.com â 13.00 per slice
www.weddingcakesbykimpayne.com â 12.00 per slice
Elisa Strauss at www.confetticakes.com â 20.00 per slice
Marina Sousa at www.justcake.com â 18.00 per person
www.colettescakes.com â 15.00 per person
www.somethingsweetbymichelle.com â 30.00 per slice
www.anascustomcakes.com â 13.50 per slice
Ron Ben Israel at www.weddingcakes.com â 20.00 per slice

you know reading all of this...has anyone thought that perhaps the amount is to accomedate a "bridezilla"??? i like selma but she is a bit of a diva to work with...and can be very demanding and spoiled'ish....i have heard this from more than one person that has had to work with her!!!! they all can't be making up stories....but anyway, i like to think the decorator/baker is just compensating for their suffering of having found out she is difficult and demanding!!!! hahahahahahaha and if that is the case go for it!!!! on the other hand it does make me a little bit sad to see people spend that much money...when i am struggling to buy gas for goodness sake!!!!!! but it is their money, they made and by golly they will spend it!!!!!!!

Yep, like the song says: That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and your chicks for free.......

Hey, all we need to do is challenge eachother for CC monthy TD's and get it televised on Food Network and then write a cookbook and we'll be able to start selling our cakes for 20 bucks a slice, too! Easy!

Oh, and an avenging sock monkey cake never hurts either!

(C'mon, WE all know that baking/decorating is blood, sweets and tears (in our fondant). Now that's working!)

win -

I was going to say the exact same thing about Salma Hayek. She is VERY involved in a number of charities, paritcularly those w/women in abusive relationships. She is also one of the only celebrities to CONTINUOUSLY demand justice from the government in Juarez, Mexico where hundreds, if not thousands, of women have gone missing, raped and/or murdred. (It's a VERY sad situation.)

ANd you know, I'm not even going to lie - if I had that kind of money you know I would be looking for the best of the best - especially if it was something I was already used to.

Putting my 2 cents in.

If any of of us would get a call from a celebrity to do the cake and they said their budget was $100 K. None of us..not one of us would turn that down. It is a lot of time involved to do something of celebrity status..it has to be picture perfect as well as the staff to pull something of that caliber off. The fresh flowers alone are worth thousands.

If I had millions upon millions of dollars, I would get a $100 K cake because why...I could.

Same thing goes for a house.car.cloths...you buy what you can afford.

We don't know what she does in her spare time..and who cares how she spends her money. We need to be more concerned how we spend our own money and how we can better our families and community.

I don't mean to ruffle feathers.

I wouldn't spend $100,000 on a cake, but I also wouldn't spend the thousands of dollars that a Louis Vuitton purse costs. However, just because I wouldn't doesn't mean I think they shouldn't. Now, if they start preaching to me about how I spend my money, then I'd change my tune. As it is, though, it's none of my business how much money they spend.

Really, if you were to break it down to a percentage of their yearly income, I bet their wedding cost them a much lower percentage than many average people's weddings do.

I have no idea how much money they bring in, but just for example, if they make a combined $35 million a year, then $3.5 million for their wedding would be just 10%. Compare that to an average working class income, and would you tell someone with a $50,000 yearly income that $5,000 was a ridiculous amount to spend on their wedding? Of course not. I know I'm just making up numbers here, but just trying to bring a little perspective.

A 7 tier cake is huge. I immediately thought of Sylvia Weinstock too......if that puppy is covered in sugar flowers, you could be talking about thousands and thousands of hours of work on the flowers alone. I think the gumpaste flowers, super-detailed decorationans & handpainting are what would make a cake cost that much. And of course, if it is a top cake decorator.....or maybe she is having a special pastry chef flown in from over the pond, lol.

Or perhaps it's covered in 24 karat edible gold and accented with diamonds??

First of all she is a very famous actress..

Second, she is rich and marrying a rich guy. And it is her money so let her spend it the way she wants to, whether it make sense or not. If it was your money, then you spend it the way you want to. Rich people are REALLY allowed to spend their money you know w/out the guilt trip . I am not rich, but I also think that people who have a lot of (hard earned, not drug) money should have the freedom to spend it.

and the point is ???