A Little Ticked Off... And I Have A Question
Business By thecookieladycc Updated 3 Feb 2010 , 5:14am by erinalicia
Thank goodness I didn't hand her a sketch (though I did a couple after she left because I was so excited about it!) I just REALLY wanted to make the cake. It was going to be a soft champagne color with lace appliques and edible pearls and crystals with dusty pink English roses all around it. I think that I'm going to just make it into a dummy cake instead.... in honor of her. opps did I just say that?
Did you sketch this cake or just describe it? If you sketched it I would tell them they can't use the sketch to go by, that would be your property - though that wouldn't stop them from using the description/ideas. Though, if this is sort of a friend you may choose to let it go for the sake of peace.
This is why I dont do design consults at tastings. I will go over some ideas, but the sketch comes AFTER they have signed the contract!
So she just wrote back...
Oh no! Wow I really wanted that cake! We aren't planning on serving the cake just for show...... XXXX wants to have it the next day at the brunch...
So she just wrote back...
Oh no! Wow I really wanted that cake! We aren't planning on serving the cake just for show...... XXXX wants to have it the next day at the brunch...
So what, it will still be sitting there next to the cheap bakery's work, and who knows what that will look like? They didn't eat my groom's cake in the example I posted above, they couldn't bring themselves to eat it because they said it was so cute.
So if you make a really cute groom's cake and sit it next to a mediocre wedding cake, then they don't eat it, they'll not only think that you made the wedding cake, but that the groom's cake would have tasted like the wedding cake! 
This is a little late in the thread, but I forgot to mention - if the cake doesn't book - any sketches, pricing, whatever, stays. I'll be darned if one of my sketches leaves so some bride can run to her cousin/friend/competitor/whoever just to use my design!
If the cake does book, they get a copy of the original.
[quote="loriemoms"][quote="CakeForte"]Do the groom's cake and charge her $900.[/quote][/quote]
And cover the board under the cake with your business cards!!!
I have never heard of savings the groom's cake for the brunch. And frankly I don't believe her, seeing as how she says it will be on display. Ask if she'll pick it up Sunday.
I've had this problem in the past and my advice is don't worry about it. You know what your work is worth and what your standards are. whatever this lady thinks, she will not get the cake that you were offering at that price - if she can, good luck to her! 
If she wants the Grooms cake, offer it at full price only x
So she just wrote back...
Oh no! Wow I really wanted that cake! We aren't planning on serving the cake just for show...... XXXX wants to have it the next day at the brunch...
Cake for brunch? That's new to me. Anyway, just tell her that you're sorry but that you won't be able to make the cake.
And making her wedding cake into a dummy cake seems fitting. Put it in your front window. 
The lady is definitely a PITA so if you want to turn her down, do it.
I would tell her if she really wants the groom's cake then you will provide it for the brunch ONLY. She can either pick it up on that day or pay for you to deliver it on that day. NOT the day of the wedding.
Also, she pays full price!
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So the bride just e-mailed me and said that the other baker is not only making the cake for 250ppl, but is also providing the plate, forks, napkins and table skit, for $350 with no deliver or set up fee. I feel like someone just punched me in the gut.
I told her that if she wants a cake for $350 I can, but it wont be as detailed as she wants, and unless I do the wedding cake I can't do the grooms cake.
I was so temped to tell her that if you want to get a cheap cake then you will get a cheap cake. But I didn't.
So the bride just e-mailed me and said that the other baker is not only making the cake for 250ppl, but is also providing the plate, forks, napkins and table skit, for $350 with no deliver or set up fee. I feel like someone just punched me in the gut.
I told her that if she wants a cake for $350 I can, but it wont be as detailed as she wants, and unless I do the wedding cake I can't do the grooms cake.
I was so temped to tell her that if you want to get a cheap cake then you will get a cheap cake. But I didn't.
She's got to be kidding. I hope that when you say "not as detailed" you're going to be giving her the box of cake mix and telling her to have fun with it! Let the other person do it, who cares? If you do it you'll end up hating yourself for going through with it!
I'd just walk away and never give her another thought.
yeah I think I'm just going to wash my hands of it and move on.
at my brother-in-law's wedding reception the wedding cake was done by a different bakery than the groom's cake. The bride's parents paid for the wedding cake and my mother-in-law was asked to pay for/ be in charge of getting the groom's cake which came from a local well known bakery in Tulsa, OK. I'm not sure where the wedding cake came from. I can see the issue from both sides considering this, but I sure wouldn't want my cake to be mistaken to be made by another bakery if they weren't so good.
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