Sooooooo a friend of a friend wants to go above and beyond for her birthday and wants a fabulous cake and she wants it wedding style (over the top IMO for a bday but whatever she wants lol).  We agreed on one design and then her friend who is handling this because the bday girl wants to be surprised wants a stiletto theme to this effect:

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I was thinking for the first cake I would charge $200.00 and the second one would be $350.00.  What would you charge for each cake?

ANot sure what is wedding style about either one of those, do you mean you're going to improvise one of those into a new design, something less flashy, and more elegant or weddingish? Just trying to figure out what you mean.

AAnd how many servings do you need? That figures into the price, for sure.

Edited to add: Are you asking if there should be a difference between over the top wedding cake designs, and over the top celebration cakes? Like should it cost less because it's "only" for a birthday? If that's what you're asking, my short answer is [B]no[/B]. I charge for the work involved, regardless of the occasion. I've done plenty of birthday, welcome baby, just because, cakes that would have blown some people's wedding cake budgets. It doesn't make any sense to sell one design for one amount, and drop or raise the price for the same design just because it's requested for a certain event.

Sorry what she means by wedding style are the tiers.  I personally charge her cake as opposed to slices. I know what I would charge for the cake but how much would you based on the designs.

AProbably a few hundred, at minimum, but it would depend on how many servings as well.

AWait...what does that mean, wedding style because of the tiers? I still don't get it....maybe I'm just not reading it right .

Ok ignore wedding style lol.  She wants tiers and it will serve 30.  I am thinking more of the design in terms of supplies and labor.

me too, not sure what you exactly mean.

Anyways, I would charge $30 for the heel on top, plus $8 each medium rose..

for the cake on the left I can't really see what's on it!

AOk that's just called a tiered design then.

AI've uploaded my chart so many times here, maybe you can find it and figure out what sizes. Or look in the Wilton site.

Sorry just quoting what she said lol.  I have seen the Wilton one and I do not prefer.  I guess I have a hard time with many charts because they charge per serving and I do not charge that way.  Thanks for the insight.  

That is helpful $30 for the shoe makes sense.  Thanks for the tips everyone.

NVM I think I found the chart and it makes sense.  I think I under charge for design than I should.  I do not know if the shoe box is good for 30 servings well not simple to cut lol.

It would be difficult to make two square shoe boxes serve 30, that's a wee tiny serving amount for a design like that, gotta remember that something like that needs to be proportional. Would make for a tiny shoe too. If using rounds, I'd probably go for a 4 6 8, but that would make for a wee tiny shoe as well. I'd say that round tiered cake you posted is at least a 6-8-10, and I bet the shoeboxes served about 100 people combined. Maybe you can incorporate dummies to give her the big look she's wanting. Just rambling, talking out loud….I'm sure you're on top of this just fine. :D

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I Made this cake last month (sorry for the bad pic), it was a real size shoe box, 33 servings!

Well there ya go, as long as she doesn't mind not having the tiered design, that is just perfect! (So maybe a styro box for the other one??)

AZCouture, thanks for the tips that sounds good.  I am trying to see what the max her friend wants to pay before decided because some people see these designs and think they are grocery store prices lol.  Even with a 9 in square cake double layer if I do 2 of those that should be more than 30 servings yes?

Italian Baker, that looks awesome.  Not a bad pic at all.  I thought of just that but is the top lid cake?  I see those cake and it does look doable but I wonder how do those get cut?  I know I would need to explain that to her.  Love the tips and thanks guys.

ANo, the top lid is two pieces of cardboard glued together, wrapped in foil and covered in fondant! A couple of dowel in the cake to hold it so it didn't crash the white "papers"! So she just lift it up and cut the cake! Anyways, according Wilton chart, 6"+8" = 36 servings, 4" tall

Oooooh I like that idea and I feel that is going to be more affordable based on what my friend probably wants to spend.  So that is a 6" and an 8" cake frosted together?  Your cake is very creative.