this-mama-rocks ROTFLMAO!!!

Kristycakes, you have got to be kidding me. I am, believe it or not, speechless.

maybe the OP meant to say 70 people instead of 700?????????/

A wedding for 700 guests isn't a wedding at all.....it's called a fundraiser.

Khalstead.....I think you may be right...70 guests makes more sense.

Hopefully that's what the OP meant....where is the OP anyway?

Its called greed! she is so "I'm going to have all these peeps at my wedding and get tons of gifts" then they have a cash bar no food and sheet cake from walmart. Some people will never get it!

If the OP didn't mean 70, then it sounds to me like the bride is hoping to spend $300 on ingredients for a cake to serve 700, hoping that as she is a co-worker of the decorators sister, if I read that right, she will do it out of some sense of matey-potatey love or something. That if she put it out there "Boo-hoo, I only have 300 but I'm soooo popular and important that I must invite 700 people" that the OP will say "Awww, ok". Surely that's the only way someone would think it could be managed. Surely.

You know, if I were invited to a wedding like this, I would go and take a covered dish and put in my card...and card ONLY...."I wish you the best and hope you enjoyed my gift of the covered dish of deviled eggs".

I never realized, until I did cakes, that there were so many self-centered people out in the world.

Tell her you know how she can get cake for 700 for only $300...go to the Dollar Store, buy cake mix and frosting and make the cakes herself...she'd only have to make 44 2-layer 8 inch cakes! Should be a snap for her and it would only cost $6 per cake! Even having to buy a few 8 inch round pan sets it would take to make these she would be under her $300 budget....but just barely!

I, too, have had it with these people who think they can get something for nothing. I have a "friend" who's daughter is having a quickie marriage this weekend. I barely know the daughter but on our last meeting a couple of years ago she mentioned that "someday" when she got married I just HAD to do her cake.

So her mom calls me MONDAY afternoon for a two tiered wedding cake to feed 25 for her to pick up FRIDAY so they could drive down to LA with it.

Naturally she wanted fondant but balked when I said that it was too short of a time frame and since they were working on a budget that fondant was much more expensive, so she settled for buttercream but wanted tons of decorations and was truly startled she couldn't get that on this short of notice.

I pointed out I had an anniversary cake AND a major 3D car cake due this week so I'd really only have one day to work on this so there was just so much I could do...BUT I would only charge her $50 and I would box it up for a safe journey to LA so it would arrive in one piece.

Later she called me back saying that they had decided to go with cupcakes cause there was a store nearby that she could get the cupcakes for only $38.

Now the devil on my shoulder is thinking that she wanted a full blown Cat's Cakes creation as a wedding gift from us to her daughter but the angel on my shoulder is trying to give her a break thinking that driving all the way to LA with a cake on her lap ended up being just too big a deal so she backed out that way.

But I can't shake the something for nothing thing...I wouldn't even consider doing a wedding cake on 4 days notice for anyone but a friend or family member much less given that good a deal on it AND boxed it for travel for that price and yet, somehow I'm thinking that was just not enough. SIGH.

Who is it around here that signs their posts with I hate people? I'm beginning to understand! LOL!

Just think, it would be so good for her business. That's 700 potential customers that would get to experience this gorgeous cake. It's hard to advertise for that many people for $300. She should jump right on this awesome opportunity......NOT!



Admit it. I had you going there, didn't I?

You guys just have me rolling! I hope this is a joke or misunderstanding because I can't imagine anyone, bride included, would think this is possible.

You see this is it ..... ANYTHING can be tacky!! and the above story is anything but!! A lovely story - with a well-mannered gracious bridal couple wanting to make it about their day with the least amount of dollars spent! It is the absolute opposite end of the spectrum to the OP's bride!
A great thought that they requested their guests gift them something that would contribute to the day..... the BEAUTIFUL thing was the fact that the bride accepted whatever that person chose to do (ie. your cake!... whatever YOU like to bring) I'll bet you put that little bit extra in (I know I would have )

I've seen some pretty TACKY weddings in my time and not all of them involved LACK of money! LOL

I think what is tacky are the people who get mad when there is no cake *gasp*, or they don't have a huge meal *oh no she didn't* or the bride asks for help *shriek!*

While there are people who ask you to go to weddings only to get a present from you, there are brides who genuinely want you there to share their day. Their budget may not be big but their hearts are. These people have asked you to share in their day and you grumble when the food isn't good and snark about what they did or didn't have on this website and how you gave a miserly gift to match their cheapness. That just makes you tacky.

You give a gift to show that you love the couple and wish them well not to balance out what they spent on you at the wedding. On my wedding day I had friends who gave $20 gift certificates and people who literally gave thousands, but each gave what they could afford and I understood that.

I didn't get mad at the $20 because that was what they could afford to give. You should give what you feel you can to these couples because they invited you, if that is only a note of congratulations or a huge monetary start in their new life, not what you feel they deserve based on their wedding.

If you don't know them that well then just don't attend. But the truth is just as there are brides who ask more people in hopes of presents, there are many guests who accept in hope of a free party.

No one forces you to go and I'm sick of hearing about how people got grand gifts and then feel slighted if there is a small reception. A gift is just that - a gift, something to be given without a reciprocation.

P.S. this does not apply to crazy OP, that customer is just off her damn rocker

Maybe the bride could sell advertising on her "hiney" as she walks down the aisle. Perhaps that would raise the funds to get enough cake for 700?? I mean if she has a captive audience of 700, think about the possibilities....

Yes, she can have a yellow cake with chocolate icing, to serve 700 at her wedding for $300.00 or less without a doubt!

A little while ago I quoted for an 800 serving wedding cake. The bride wanted 10 tiers, so some would be dummy cake, and a massively strong support would have been necessary. I quoted over $6000. I never heard back, so assume I didn't get the job - sticker shock maybe - but that's just fine, because I wouldn't have done it for less. Cake for 700 or 800 is A LOT of cake!!!!

Maybe they're counting on the receiving line taking so long that most people will have left by the time the cake is served.

I had a meeting with a girl and her mom who brought in a picture of the cake that she wanted. It was 4 tiers in pearlized white fondant with tons of BC scrolling and detail work. The bottom three layer would be fake so only the top 6" round would be real. But she insisted on a cake stand that I didn't have. (I have only been doing cakes for about 8 months so I don't have a huge selection) Anyways, I asked what her budget was and she said $75.00!! Then, she was offended because I started laughing, I thought she was surely joking... No, no joke. Her dad is a very well known CPA in our small town and he felt like that was an appropriate price to pay for a wedding cake.

I didn't see where it said that the cake had to serve 700...just that there were 700 guests invited. 700 invited to the wedding 200 invited to the reception... or 700 invited to both, the wedding and the reception but half are vegans and the other have otherwise restricted diets thereby allowing the cake servings to be cut in half(that way, they could also save the top tier for their anniversary)...

If she opted for white cake with chocolate icing instead of yellow, she could get 20, 10" cakes from Sam's for less than 15 bucks a piece(that's with the gumpaste sprays on them...even less than that without the sprays)...and she probably wouldn't even need that many...a few vases/pillar candle holders from the dollar store to display some of them on...it's definitely an option, eh?

LOL! Now how crazy would that be if it was someone's strategy was to serve crappy cake, so they could buy less cake. LOL!

I don't think their cakes are bad...I've not taste their layer cakes...but the sheet cakes were moist and flavorful. I reckon not everyone at the reception would like the cake regardless of where it came from...there will ALWAYS be at least one person there to say something to the effect of, "my mother does cakes. her's are so much better."

Yes, your right, and that would be my daughter saying that.