I have a home based business, it's registered and insured. Recently I was asked by a couple who are getting married if I had cake insurance they can purchase. What is this? In all my years in business (3years) I've never heard of such thing.
They then asked, if the wedding cake does not arrive or if there was an accident with the cake would there be a replacement cake?
In this case what do people normally do? I've never dropped a cake before, nor have I made a cake that they didn't like, nor have I been late to deliver a cake. From what I understand is that this "cake insurance" is suppose to cover what might happen. So where can I find this "cake insurance" and how do I get it?so I can provide it to my clients?

From what I've read (and it's just a little bit so I could be wrong), wedding insurance may cover the cake, but wedding insurance is something that the couple would purchase from their insurance provider.

Tell them to check into wedding insurance, I agree. But it's just insurance - if there's a disaster, it might return them some money but it's not a magic wand. If a tornado hit your shop or you were rear ended on the way to their reception, there wont be a cake. Cakes just don't appear out of thin air and, no, you can't bake two just for them unless they want to pay you to make two and drive them separately like parents who take separate planes.

These people watch too much TV. If something happened to your cake due to your neglect, your liability insurance would kick in. If they want reimbursed for something that is not due to your neglect, they buy wedding day insurance.

2nd cakes magically appearing only happen on the Micky Mouse CLub with their magic oven.

I just saw an episode of "rich bride, poor bride" where the couple had cake insurance....must be some crazy canadian thing....LOL! I've looked but can't find the cakery that they went with....the cake fell, and there was a replacement there in under an hour...crazy!!! I'd love to get the details on this insurance they're offering!

Here's a clip of the cake...

I asked a question about that episode once!! lol!!

Here's the explination I got!!

The baker offers "insurance" for X amount of dollars
i.e. bakes the same size and flavour cakes and keeps them on hand in the event of a disaster, like callapsed table or drunken uncle, then when they get the call, they can assemble a replacement cake of the same size and flavour with minimal to no decorations.. it's an interesting idea.. but I'm not sure what I'd charge, and how do you offer it to your clients without it looking like a money grab, or a JINX!! lol..

ok, i have heard of wedding day ins, but not the cake ins. nutty!

I had one bride ask for it, so I asked her what she want from me if I provided cake insurance for her. She said she didn't know, but another bakery told her for $200 they would provide her with it, so if there was a car accident or anything else, they would have another cake ready...

So I'm thinking this could be a bank way to make extra $$. They pay you a couple hundred bucks more and IF something happens...

I've never had anything happen. I tell people that with no cake insurance at all, I have a couple of dummy cakes I have decorated and if someone totally outlandish happened, I would bring one of those to put on their table, and pick up some sheet cakes.

Hey ya know, if I got a good enough explanation, I may get on the cake insurance bus...

I wonder if the other decorator just really tried to sell her on the importance of it. I don't know...

I'll jump on that band wagon... In fact!! I'll start my own cake insurance brokerage..

My idea of Cake Insurance is telling them that if I mess it up, I'll run to the nearest grocery store bakery and grab the closest thing I can find or have them decorate a new cake really quick It's on me, if I mess up.

What would you do with the extra cake if not needed????? A bakery would have room for it, but may not have another bride for it. Sounds like alot of baking and decorating for a WHAT IF not to mention waste.

My friend did have one cake disaster as we were delivering a wedding cake. Luckily we had enough time to bake and decorate a new cake to cover the one destroyed layer.

My only cake disaster was a friend's mother's 85th birthday. The SPS plate broke, cracked up to the middle, after the cake was on the plate and started to transport. I bought the bottom cakes uniced and frozen from a local grocery store bakery. Iced and deocrated before the event started and all turned out fine.

freeze it and sell it to another bride down the road. one-time-work; double-money.

I am shaking my head in amazement. Cake insurance. I'm not sure that I would want to go to a bakery that could give me another cake within an hour.

That video clip seemed a bit too contrived. Do you think it was for real, or for reality tv... Who was she anyway??

Where were the cuss words, cuz let me tell you, her "sor-ry" would be right up where the sun don't shine and then cops would have had to show up.... It would have been seriously ugly.

I used to work at an insurance office. One day our guy from Traveler's Insurance came in with some Wedding Insurance Packets. I thought whoa, that seems like no one would buy it, but as I was reading the info, I thought it was a brilliant idea... like, what if the caterer backed out after giving them a deposit, what if i lost my wedding ring the day before the wedding, or what if a hurricane decides to crash my outdoor ceremony? Traveler's has a really good FAQ section on their website: w w w dot protectmywedding dot com/faq dot html...check it out. BTW, i am in no way working for this company or endorsing them, but it is an interesting idea. It is one the bride will need to take to her insurance company. I don't think the laws will allow just anyone to sell this, You have to have an insurance license (at least here in Cali)... not too terribly expensive when you think about how much you spend on a wedding anyway..

Wedding DAY insurance is not the same as this Cake Insurance. Two TOTALLY separate things. I work in a lot of venues that require the couple to have wedding day insurance.

Alot of companies, such as www.weddingprotect.com - are now offering comprehensive forms of wedding insurance covering various things from the gown to the wedding cake. I guess anything anyone is spending that much money on they want insured?