Never mind my avatar but this just makes me shake my head.

Bride wants 100 fancy wrapped cupcakes........and sheet cake to feed 275. Huh? Whaaaa? Why? Really? And just who gets a fancy cupcake and who gets the dumpy chunk of plain ole cake?

Seriously. I give up. I almost don't care anymore. I'll do it. I'm getting a new car, this just adds to the down payment.

Of course, it will be KITCHEN cake though, I refuse to budge on that! But if there is no decorated cake, does the kitchen cake lose it's title, and become glorified sheet cake?

And please don't think I am ungrateful for orders, trust me I'm not. I just cringe when I see people get fancy cake for some, and drastically different cake for others at the same function. I'm just cake and tradition sensitive I guess. ((sigh))

Is this for a Wedding?

It sounds like she's been reading some of those "how to cut your Wedding budget" articles.

So did you quote her a price yet? Wondering what her response will be...

Well... Is there a drastically different price per serving?
I assume she'll use the cupcakes to have the picture taken with, (MOBs always insist on a cake picture) and the kitchen cakes are to make certain everyone can have some cake to eat.

BFF gets cupcake

BF gets kitchen cake

F just gets to hear about it all after the fact.

(the above said in "valley speak" while holding a chihuahua in a pink dog carrier with an appropriate hair toss)

Man people have lost their minds, a reception is supposed to be the new couples 'gift' to the people who come to their wedding.

How can you look someone in the eye when the whole time you know they didn't rate a nice cupcake just a hunk of kitchen cake. That is just rude.

So will there be a person stamping hands as they enter the reception...first 100 get the pretty dessert. ( shaking my head)

mommachris

Ahhhh, the pictures. Ok, well that theory makes sense, sure sure, I get that. Yep, wedding, no quote yet. Doug---hilarious, love it!

And yeah, fancy cupcake liners will cost her more. I dunno, haven't looked at anything yet, I really just got the message about a half hour ago.

Had to come here and blabber about it first!

Mommachris, my thoughts exactly. It's a gift, a thank you Uncle Tom who I haven't even spoken to in 25 years but you cared enough to come AND bring me a gift!

Anytime I have couples ask if a sheet cake makes things cheaper, I explain to them that my sheet cakes are priced the same because they look the same- 4 inches high, filling etc. They, of course, look a little confused. I then tell them that for those family members who enjoy drama, seeing some guests getting a fancy-schmancy piece of cake and others getting a hunk-a-sheet cake, this just becomes fuel to the fire. This usually draws a laugh and then we talk about the BIG cake their going to have instead.

It sounds like she wants the fancy cupcakes for her show cake..or cupcake tower or whatever and then figures the kitchen cakes will be for everyone to eat..and probably figures the kitchen cakes will be cheaper also...NOT!!! No deal for you!!!

Those darn cupcake wrappers start at a $1 to $1.25 each add $2 or $3 for actual cupcake and it might as well be an actual wedding cake...some people are just crazy.

Yeah those wrappers are nice but if my customer insists on them...she is paying for them!!!I'm not absorbing the cost.

Oh heck no Diane!! Never! Lol!

Nice Indy!

wow. Thats not very nice. I always thought the reception was the bride & groom's thank you to their guest as well. Some much for tradition.

Nope. Kitchen cake, full 4" or more and filled. Hee hee!

Our wedding and reception wasn't a gift from us to those who came. It was a family reunion.

Some guests brought food, others in the family brought flowers, still others decorated the chapel. Music was a nephew and his band. Pictures were anyone with a camera.
It was beautiful.
No one would have cared a whit if someone else got a better piece of cake. It would seem very odd for that to be important at a celebration of family, which in our family is what a wedding is.