You have got to take a look at this . What will they come up with next no cake at all http://www.isntshelovely.org/search/label/Cake Scroll down below the green cake and the other cakes and read the article and there is a link to www.cakerental.com which states they coined the idea.

i have a feeling this will go over as well as rental wedding gowns.

Cake that nobody likes to eat anyway!!! Are they INSANE! That's the freaking best part of the wedding.....when designing my cake, the only thing I told the baker was I like fall theme and it has to taste DELICIOUS! These people are crazy!

Well, heck, what about all the "rubber chicken" dinners that folks have to choke down? And what about the fancy sounding food that no one knows what it is? Gosh, "no body eats it anyway" so just lay out plastic food and then serve 'em McDonalds from the kitchen. That'll save you a fortune, too!

Their "cakes" sure are pretty... too bad they don't taste good... I think that this is silly!

That is to funny renting a wedding cake, id love to see if this takes off.... I loved planning my cake that was the best part making it "me"....

BUT i must tell you keljo05 , that wedding gown rentals are HUGE now, i have a friend here in roseville calif that does just that, she has a business http://www.alexandriasformal.com/page/page/1394292.htm and thats her specialty, she rents wedding gowns, she has been featured in NY magazine, plus a few others, also she was talked about on the Tyra Banks show, Good morning Sacramento, just to mention a few it is HUGE.... She does a fantastic busniss and people come from all over to do this, she business has grown so much in the last few years it amazes me.

She started out doing prom rentals and that grew so big, then she added Quinceanera, then mother of the brides and then wedding and it just took off so big, now she is phasing out the prom to a minimum and doing mostly weddings, this woman has everything you need to make a bride feel special.

Ijust needed to let you ladies know that there is a HUGE business for this kind of service.. Im thinking paying a huge amount for a dress im only wearing once or a big honeymoon, hmmm lemme think im going to hawaii!!!!!!!!!!!!

why on earth would people want pay few hundred dollars to rent cakes & return them, when they can pay just a bit more to have cakes at their wedding, & get everyone to eat them too?

Fake cake is the most puzzling thing I have ever seen.

Why not make clear cake since "nobody likes to look at it anyway..."

WHy not "rent a family"...I mean, if you can't afford to fly your real father in from a few states away....just rent one! No one talks to him anyway! And the best excuse...."It's just for picture purposes..."

Why not Fake Wedding documents.....since it's just for legal purposes anyway...

WHy not styrofoam diamonds....it's all good...right?

I just commented

a dollar says it doesn't get posted

"Hi. My name is Jeanne Williamson. I am not only a cake decorator but also a creator of delicious cakes for any occasion including wedding cakes. I appreciate what you are marketing. I don't, however, appreciate your choice of description of the wedding cake. I do agree, why would someone pay 1500.00 on a cake that no one likes? Why would someone pay 50.00 for cake no one likes? Who's to say those sheet cakes are going to be something everyone likes. I would hope that brides-to-be along with someone they trust make an effort to attend tastings...more than one...to find someone who will give them a cake that not only looks good but also tastes good.
There's also tradition in wedding cakes regardless of how much it costs. It's people surrounding the newly married couple and eating of the same cake...like a toast...a wish...to a sweet life together.
I've been making cakes for a very long time...people LOVE CAKE!

I mean no offense. The "green" thing is all well and good but I do believe you stepped on a few toes with the "cake no one likes to eat" comment."

I'm reading the testimonials and they are cracking me up! "We got the cake of our dreams!" Sheet cakes from a grocery store was the cake of their dreams? Because what cakerentals sent them WAS NOT A CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's another one: "We were having a small wedding and couldn't believe the prices of cakes, until we found Cakerental.com." The price you paid for cakerental was not THE PRICE OF YOUR CAKE!!!!!!!!!!! It was the price of a decoration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good lord!!!

I'm going out on a limb here....I know but here goes. If you can't beat them than join them.

I'm starting to think if this takes off, I may consider offering rental of my dummies. They're already made.....if they rent for $250 and you rent the same one 4 times in a month that's $1000 for no work, it's already made up anyway. Than, you offer sheet cakes to serve the guests, the ones that stay in the pan, simple.

I know it's hard for us to conceive, because we love Wedding Cakes that's why we make them, but......there are some people in this world that don't give a flying pig about cakes. These are the ones we could get to rent out our dummies that we already have made up anyway. Hey, if they're dumb enough to pay that much for a styrofoam cake, than we may as well get in on the action. Sounds silly, but maybe not as silly as when I first heard about it.

BTW, I've had an $1800 wedding dress boxed up in my closet for over 20 yrs. in the hope that my DD will want to wear it....I'd love for her to use it, but I doubt she will.

Interesting take on it dkelly and I see where you are coming from.

I still don't get it. I think the dismissal of the cutting of the ceremonial wedding cake.(and it is a ceremony all to itself)..regardless of how it's designed(or no design at all)....is the shelving of a tradition.

[quote="indydebi"] On the other hand, my daughter DID wear my wedding dress ... she was 9 when I bought it and said that very day, "Mom, if you buy that dress, I'LL wear it when *I* get married!" ...... and she did. She has boxed it up in case HER daughter wants to wear it. We think it would be really cool for it to be a 3rd generation dress ... especially when we factor that my granddaughter is the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter of the eldest daugther! (ok, well, it's cool to us! )



Oh, that's awesome that your daughter wore your gown I'm keeping my hopes up that my DD will want to wear mine, (after college I hope)

To all4cake, you don't have to give up the cake cutting ceremony. My niece wanted a dummy cake, because her sister was making the carrot cake for dessert (she's a great baker, but won't decorate). So the dummy I made for her was 4 stacked square tiers. On the bottom tier I cut out an area about 6" wide x 4" long and inserted real cake, I lined the rough edges of the foam dummy with parchment, so it didn't touch the real cake. Than I just decorated as usual. I discreetly showed them where to cut (I had marked off the area on the cakeboard with a tiny mark that the naked eye wouldn't know was there), and than they did their cake cutting thing. Worked out great for pictures.

I understand the concept of having a dummy at a wedding.

I didn't mean to give the impression that I thought the initial cut was the only part of the ceremony...but rather the cake...the whole cake...regardless of how it's decorated, if at all, is the ceremony.

I suppose, if the slice that was inserted into the dummy and the sister's delicious carrot cake were from the same cake...

oh, anyway, I mean no disrespect to anyone....I just find it sad.

LOL I just had a request for a styrofoam cake the other day after I gave out a quote for a 'real' cake which would have cost her $900.

I quoted her $200 for the dummy cake because I was going to have to purchase more dummies, pay for shipping, purchase fondant and then
add my labor. She was STILL shocked that I was going to charge her $200. I'm not in the 'rental' business and I still have expenses even if the cake is fake. The bride to be had read about the 'rental cakes' and I guess she thought I was going to do it for $100!!! haha gotta love those brides....

I still don't get it? I read the testimonials of the rental cake company. The one Bride was saying how she loved her cake & couldn't wait for everyone to see it. Ahh, It's not YOUR cake probably 100 other people have had YOUR cake at there wedding reception. She can't wait for the guest to see it but not eat it. I guess I'm just old fashioned, & like to eat cake

I also wore my mother's dress 44 years later ((I was an old-36 first time bride) but then decided to use if for a christening gown so that's what became of it.
Back on topic-I think this green thing when it comes to wedding cakes is stupid as well. I look forward to the cake too-that's usually the best part of the wedding (as IndyDebi said-too many rubber chicken, frozen green bean plates in my past).
I think this is catching on because my friend in the state of WA said there was an article in the paper a few weeks ago regarding the rental of cakes. It did mention you should get a "real" cake to serve to your guests but it's not necessary.

I got married in a castle, in a designer gown, honeymooned in the most expensive city in the world, and had a huge party for all my friends- and the whole thing cost me just over $5,000. I make that point not to gloat, but to point out that there are lots of different ways to get married, and every bride should get to chose what's important to them. I would NEVER spend $1000 on a cake, yet I get $1000 for at least one cake almost every week.

The thing that I noticed about the site is that it is $150 for a " basic three tiered cake". Most of those cakes were four or more tiers, and only a few were what I'd consider "basic", so the whole premise is based on a bait and switch to begin with. If you're coaching a bride, that is the first thing to point out.

The media panders. They will cover the rent-a-cake just like they cover the Filene's "running of the brides" sale because it's just not sexy to tell a bride " the best way to cut wedding costs is to cut your guest list". Would " Sensible weddings for under 80 people" be as intriguing a story as " Have your dream wedding on a budget" ?

Get over it. This whining about the media is getting a little old. Anybody who takes advice from the snippets on the Today show is a moron. The trouble with people under the age of forty in general is that they watch too much TV and believe the nonsense they spew.

Make some standard white bride's cake dummies and give the girls a choice. " Here, you can rent this cake and have your florist put flowers to match your ceremony on it for $150 plus the cost of kitchen cakes" or you can have a cake designed just for you for $450.


Whew!!!!! I'm glad I got that out of my system. Remind me not to read any of these threads any more .

What I've found interesting is that in the past, I've been complimented for the taste of my cakes. One of my more recent wedding cakes, they said that all the guests were saying "I can't believe this is wedding cake, its so delicious."

Now I don't think my cakes are anything out of the ordinary for THIS website, as we all know moist and yummy cakes are our goal!!! But is the average bakery wedding cake that gross? Even the expensive ones? I noticed on this website in this thread they were also claiming that people don't like eating wedding cake which would be another reason to buy foam. Are THAT many wedding cakes really yucky????

oops and i forgot not to mention the cost of the dummy cake too we do have to buy these so hmmm where are they saving their money.